Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Alaska Airlines Door Blows Out in Flight For 20 years, Boeing has engaged in collaborative product development with a significant number of suppliers. The outsourced R&D, in turn, supported outsourced manufacturing with over 50 key suppliers. Spirit AeroSystems manufactures the fuselages of the 737 Max jets.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 22, 2024

We do so in the lens of supply chain management and manufacturing. While such an application might have been effective, and Procter and Gamble might have been pleased, it is not in conformance with the approved manufacturing process instruction specification for the aircraft.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides an additional update on the incident involving an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft’s decompression. Inside Boeing’s Manufacturing Mess ( Paid subscription ), was far reaching in the implications of the latest incident.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Management Commentary As we have noted in prior updates, the latest being last week , the incident of a near catastrophic blowout of an Alaska Airlines newly delivered Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft has triggered a series of new events hat have added more scrutiny to Boeing ’s production and quality control processes.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 12, 2024

As highlighted in our original commentary , an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft flying at 16,000 feet experienced a main cabin decompression as a result of a rear exit fuselage door plug blowing out. That has implications for Alaska, United and Copa airlines, the noted operators of this MAX variant.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

2024 Production Goal This week, commercial aircraft manufacturer Airbus established a goal to deliver upwards of 800 commercial aircraft this year. Supply Chain Matters highlights the announcement from Airbus setting aggressive aircraft production and delivery targets for 2024.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 25, 2024

Since January’s incident involving an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX aircraft experiencing cabin de-pressurization because of a rear cockpit door blowout the crisis surrounding Boeing with airline customers, flyers, and major suppliers has only deepened.

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