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Added Boeing Developments Related to Production Quality Challenges

Supply Chain Matters

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 Production Quality Crisis Significantly Escalates

Supply Chain Matters

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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Boeing’s Newest Production and Quality Challenge

Supply Chain Matters

Latest Incident On Friday of last week, 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. based carriers Alaska Airlines and United Airlines. Global air regulators are expected to follow.

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20 Years of Outsourcing Come Back to Haunt Boeing

Logistics Viewpoints

Alaska Airlines Door Blows Out in Flight For 20 years, Boeing has engaged in collaborative product development with a significant number of suppliers. Quality issues have recently bedeviled Boeing. This “harmonization” in turn would “improve collaboration, innovation, product quality, time-to-market and return-on-investment.”

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Update on Boeing 737 MAX Fuselage Door Plug Incident

Supply Chain Matters

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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Boeing 737 MAX Door Plug Incident- Expanding Implications

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides an additional update on the incident involving an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft’s decompression. Spirit and Boeing battled over costs, quality and the pace of production. Buttigieg further stated: “ The only consideration is safety, that is going to dictate everything.

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Boeing’s subcontractor problem

Operations and Supply Chain Management

The strategy is being questioned in the wake of a string of quality problems that include complaints of loose rudder bolts and a recent blowout of a door plug on an Alaska Airlines flight. Dozens of factories build key pieces of 737 and 787 jets before they are assembled by Boeing.