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Boeing’s Production Quality Crisis Significantly Escalates

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The Supply Chain Matters blog provides a further update on the ongoing production quality, corporate reputation and other challenges that collectively surround commercial aircraft producer Boeing. He further added: “ We are in an industry where quality and safety is top priority.” That alone is significant.

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Added Boeing Developments Related to Production Quality Challenges

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The Supply Chain Matters blog provides a further update on the ongoing production quality, corporate reputational and cultural challenges that collectively surround commercial aircraft producer Boeing. Prior to that our update focused on Boeing’s overall production quality challenges being assessed as systemic in scope.

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Boeing’s Newest Production and Quality Challenge

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Depending on what ongoing aircraft inspections discover, resources may have to be allocated toward needed changes in production quality checks. As Bloomberg noted in its reporting, Spirit has struggled with past quality issues, financial challenges and reported production worker turnover. All rights reserved.

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Breaking News- Major Senior Leadership Change for Boeing

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Significant Management Leadership Shakeup According to published reports from both Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal this morning, Boeing is undergoing senior management leadership changes in the wake of the ongoing production quality corporate and other challenges that have tarnished this aircraft maker.

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Boeing’s Corporate Culture Fix is a Systemic Challenge

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It involves and weights operational excellence and process discipline and a corporate culture focused on producing each aircraft with the utmost quality and efficiency. Consistent Themes Common themes reflect aircraft quality deficiencies that now reportedly involve multiple other areas of produced 737 and other Boeing produced aircraft.

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Boeing’s Potential Sourcing Reversal- Financial or Operational?

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The Supply Chain Matters blog provides an update on the ongoing production, quality reputation and corporate cultural challenges that surround commercial aircraft producer Boeing. The plane maker further announced the creation of a new senior leadership role for overseeing commercial aircraft quality control.

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Boeing 737 MAX Door Plug Incident- Expanding Implications

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The Reuters report indicates that Alaska Airlines had indicated that the airline “ engaged in a candid conversation ” with Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun and the plane maker’s leadership team regarding quality improvement actions. Spirit and Boeing battled over costs, quality and the pace of production.

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