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Boeing 737 MAX Door Plug Incident- Expanding Implications

Supply Chain Matters

Inside Boeing’s Manufacturing Mess ( Paid subscription ), was far reaching in the implications of the latest incident. The Journal report makes reference to a white paper published in 2001 penned by a then Boeing aerospace engineer. These costs do not vanish merely because the work itself is out-of-sight. ”

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Is the FAR getting in the way of Early Supplier Involvement in defense projects?

NC State SCRC

At that point, production and system operations commence (DSMC, 2001). defense firms tend to follow a traditional “white box” sourcing approach, as shown in this figure. This was observed on a factory floor of a supplier producing an aerospace part designed twenty years earlier.