Comments on: Krugman on What Boeing’s Dreamliner Delays Teaches Us http://thesunbreak.com/2011/02/21/krugman-on-what-boeings-dreamliner-delays-teaches-us/ Curious Georges in a conversation with Seattle Wed, 18 Feb 2015 07:17:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 By: Losleben http://thesunbreak.com/2011/02/21/krugman-on-what-boeings-dreamliner-delays-teaches-us/#comment-3822 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 02:39:00 +0000 /2011/02/21/krugman-on-what-boeings-dreamliner-delays-teaches-us#comment-3822 The Dreamliner is an R&D airplane!! Out-sourcing has been going on for years. Mistakes were losing configuration control. Drawings should have been done in house. Proper plannning and scheduling for an R&D anything requires knowledge by the Scheduler (Industrial Engineer) not some manager sitting at a big table. The folks that did the schedule for the 787 were production people not R&D Engineers. I know , I don’t have to be there. I’m a Boeing Retiree and proude of it!!!

]]> By: bilco http://thesunbreak.com/2011/02/21/krugman-on-what-boeings-dreamliner-delays-teaches-us/#comment-3821 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:22:00 +0000 /2011/02/21/krugman-on-what-boeings-dreamliner-delays-teaches-us#comment-3821 Come on, he knows it ‘form experience’

]]> By: Roger D. Parish http://thesunbreak.com/2011/02/21/krugman-on-what-boeings-dreamliner-delays-teaches-us/#comment-3820 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:26:00 +0000 /2011/02/21/krugman-on-what-boeings-dreamliner-delays-teaches-us#comment-3820 I hope you look more closely at your blueprints than you did at the photo you linked: the negative was reversed when it was scanned!!

]]> By: Lucky Balaraman http://thesunbreak.com/2011/02/21/krugman-on-what-boeings-dreamliner-delays-teaches-us/#comment-3819 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 04:52:00 +0000 /2011/02/21/krugman-on-what-boeings-dreamliner-delays-teaches-us#comment-3819 When I read the LA Times article, what comes too mind is that Boeing experienced a failure of senior management. Apparently that team had insufficient knowledge of outsourcing, which led them to depend on suppliers far more than they should have.

I know form experience that is IS possible to put together very large transportation machines with a distributed team. We were one of three geographically dispersed teams that jointly designed crucial subsystems for one of the largest cruise ships ever built (“Fantasia”: 138,000 tons. The outsourcer committed large management resources to the project to coordinate suppliers, and the one-year exercise went off without a hitch.

See the liner at http://bit.ly/fjVuYd.

Lucky Balaraman
CEO
TMG
Providers of engineering, architectural and other services

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