[Boeing] 787 assembly problems in Charleston drag on Everett

The Seattle Times ^ | 2/4/2014 | Dominic gates

[steve86]

Boeing is struggling to complete 787 fuselage sections in South Carolina since a production rate increase, and sections are arriving in Everett more unfinished and problematic than before.

Since late last year, Boeing 787 Dreamliner fuselage sections from North Charleston, S.C., have arrived at the Everett final assembly line seriously incomplete with wiring and hydraulics lines missing, according to multiple sources in the factory.

The poorly done work out of Charleston threatens to undermine the company’s plans to deliver 10 Dreamliners a month and fulfill the much-delayed jet program’s original promise.

“It’s snowballing. The planes are getting worse out of Charleston,” said one senior Everett employee who oversees the production status of the airplanes.

[steve86]

So, why are you posting and supporting leftist union propaganda on a conservative forum?

Well, I believe the claims made in the article are fact. I got hit with similar accusations while posting Washington State Obamacare signup statistics (which show a lot of paid enrollments - Fact). Unlike some, I do not ignore or suppress evidence that's contrary to my preconceptions on any topic.

Besides, I am an unabashed social conservative / religion-based conservative. Never made claims beyond that and am agnostic, at best, on the fiscal/financial kinds of conservatism or on workplace issues.

They are airing company start-up problems to the public as a union propaganda tool.

How long do the "start-up problems" continue? Until the end of the fuselage-building program in South Carolina?

[Figment]

“I am sure from the Everett union nothing done in SC is any good.....”

If the story is to be believed at face value, it is a complete breakdown of the QA system of the entire company. I work in an industry that supplies automakers, the deficiencies mentioned are not tolerated period. Union crap

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Back in the summer of 1974 I was working for an import auto dealership as a lot boy/light mechanic/general gopher. One of the dealership lines was Triumph, and British Leyland Motors was facing labor actions in the UK that often took the form of throwing a complement of uninstalled parts in the trunk and sending the barely functional car on its way to the states. The post delivery assembly was costing dealers a ton and completely killed the image of Triumph as a competitive sportscar. One day I started a TR-6 and found the throttle locked wide open and the gear shifter came out of the transmission tunnel in my hand. Complete circus. Triumph was gone in ~6 years.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Sabotage by a few pro-union ringers in the work force.....

[crazycatlady]

Thanks for posting.

[jim_trent]

I read in different books that the Germans and the Japanese tested captured P-51 engines (Packard produced Merlin engines) and were amazed at how tight the tolerances were. Compared to their own engines, they leaked far less oil. But that was a different time.