Boeing Must Be ‘in the Green’ Before 737 Max Cap Is Lifted, FAA Head Says.

Boeing lack of quality control and its inconsistent monitoring of issues
must turn to solid green before US aviation safety regulators will be convinced the plane-maker can support higher production rates and
output limits imposed on its 737 Max fiasco.

“We have made it very clear that those metrics need to be in the green
before the production increases above a certain level,”
Mike Whitaker, the US Federal Aviation Administration’s top official,
said in an interview in Washington on Tuesday.
“That’s going to be our focus over the next couple of months to get
clarity around that.”

The FAA capped output of Boeing’s 737 Max at a rate of 38 per month
in the wake of a January near-catastrophe, in which a door cover blew
off during flight.
That level of inept workmanship triggered a series of revelations of manufacturing lapses inside Boeing’s factories and forced the company
to curtail production as it attempts to get its processes back on track.

The action plan that Boeing crafted in response to the crisis gave the
FAA access to key performance indicators, monitored on traffic lights,
that provide a real-time glimpse into the flow of work in its
Renton factory and across the supply chain.

The plane-maker has struggled with out-of-sequence manufacturing,
do to its nonsensical adherence to the Toyoda style of manufacturing
through the use of TaKt time, even when that operation is incomplete.
that leads to quality breakdowns caused by out of sequence work.
(And is the current state of the 787 line as well)

Adding to the woeful imputed of Boeing management is a workforce
heavy on inexperienced new hires and parts shortages caused largely
by the companies insistence on JIT parts delivery even for the smallest
of fasteners, as Boeing clings to the belief that it is the only customer
worth having and all others are subordinate.

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They'll just declare it green. Simple enough. It is what a DEIing company does.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article292050585.html

As strike looms, Boeing pushes 777 jets through chaotic production

For months, Boeing's leadership has claimed repeatedly that slowing the
pace of jet production and renewing the focus on inspections will ensure
production quality. As a potential strike by 33,000 machinists looms next
week, that's not the reality mechanics see inside Boeing's
wide-body jet plant in Everett, Washington.

Managers there are currently pushing partially assembled 777 jets
through the assembly line, leaving tens of thousands of unfinished jobs
due to defects and parts shortages to be completed out of sequence on
each airplane, according to three people working directly on 777 assembly.

Though the production rate of 777 jets is at a crawl,
with a total of just 11 deliveries so far this year, employees describe
a chaotic workplace.

Mechanics are chasing airplanes through the Everett factory to install
systems that should have gone in earlier and to complete rework of
defects on 777 cargo planes that have traveled far down the assembly
line and even outside onto the Paine Field flight line,
said a veteran 777 mechanic who works on fuselages.

At the 737 Max plant in Renton, Washington, Boeing has said it is
severely limiting such "traveled work,"
which requires installing parts out of the normal assembly sequence.
The practice contributed to the Alaska Airlines door plug blowout in January.
And is in line with Boeings standard operating practices and procedures

"It's not the way the hourly workers want to do business," said the veteran mechanic, alarmed by the state of 777 production. "We're shooting ourselves in the foot."

A longtime 777 quality inspector in Everett -
who, like the other employees quoted here, requested anonymity because
of Boeing's now notorious retaliation - and related aѕsaѕsination's...
Said Boeing has moved new inspectors onto
the assembly line who are unfamiliar with the work.
"They are not being trained, just thrown to the wolves," he said.

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