Posted on 04/21/2019 3:52:31 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Former and current employees at a Boeing plant in the United States' South Carolina that produces the company's 787 Dreamliner jet have claimed that the factory has been plagued by shoddy production and weak oversight that have threatened to compromise safety.
The New York Times report is a result of of hundreds of pages of internal emails, corporate documents and federal records, as well as interviews with more than a dozen current and former employees of the North Charleston plant.
It comes as the company is dealing with the aftermath of two deadly crashes of its 737 Max aircraft which took place within a span of five months and killed 356 people in total. The crashes have led to the grounding of the aircraft globally for an indefinite period.
Joseph Clayton, a technician at the North Charleston plant, one of two facilities where the Dreamliner is built, said he routinely found debris dangerously close to wiring beneath cockpits.
"I've told my wife that I never plan to fly on it."
On several planes, John Barnett, a former quality manager who worked at Boeing for nearly three decades and retired in 2017, discovered clusters of metal slivers hanging over the wiring that commands the flight controls.
Debris found in planes "has cost Boeing at other plants", including their Everett, Washington, factory, where the company built the KC-46 tanker for the Air Force.
(Excerpt) Read more at ndtv.com ...
Moving the HQ to Chicago has apparently transformed the company.
Into something less.
Probably a good idea for them to consider hiring in merit.
New York Times? I’ll get concerned when this comes from a credible source.
In another major aerospace company we encountered many issues created by disgruntled workers particularly around contract negotiation time.
These included things like cut wires, missing or incompatible fasteners, surface contamination on areas requiring painting. etc. I know of at least two cases where we called the FBI to investigate the damage because the employees were intentionally messing with GFE military assets.
[Moving the HQ to Chicago has apparently transformed the company.]
Shocking, isn’t it?
Maybe Geraldo can find something on Al Capone and a vault or something.
Maybe some O’Leary chick will start another city cleansing...
This sounds a lot like some of the few employees that they always find to sell out a company prior to a union vote.
Unions have been trying to organize the South Carolina Boeing plant for years. This sounds like scare mongering by pro union employees trying to imply that there are quality control issues because the plant is non-union.
That was exactly my first thought.
I wouldn't put it past them (the union) to hire people into the SC plant to cause these problems.
Unions are scum!
According to the people who are doing the shoddy work? What are they, children who need constant oversight?
That sort of retaliation could result in the deaths of 100s of people. Any employee who does that would be charged with murder.
Surely these “problems” are not surfacing at the request of union workers versus S. Carolina non-union workers.
Boeing has been building aircraft for some time, why do they have multiple programs that are so screwed up?
It sounds as if management is not up to the challenge.
Exactly so.
Sounds like the dreaded Six-Sigma has scored another victim, through forced changes to the manufacturing and quality systems that previously worked very well.
See comment #16.
How is the diversity cancer at Boeing? Could be the cause
How about the Air Force? Air Force again halts KC-46 deliveries after more debris found
There are quality control issues. Unionizing may not solve it but being non-union sure didn't prevent it. This comes from bad management.
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