{"id":200285,"date":"2021-05-21T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/21\/boeing-still-cant-build-planes-part-4%e2%81%b9\/"},"modified":"2021-05-21T17:57:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T22:57:00","slug":"boeing-still-cant-build-planes-part-4%e2%81%b9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/21\/boeing-still-cant-build-planes-part-4%e2%81%b9\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing Still Can’t Build Planes, Part 4\u2079"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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In 2019, a sweeping transformation of Boeing\u2019s quality system deliberately eliminated thousands of quality checks during production and cut 100s of quality inspector jobs.<\/p>\n

Ernesto Gonzalez-Beltran, the architect of that shift, left the company in Decemberhttps:\/\/t.co\/SbcHIzcnFp<\/a > <\/p>\n

\u2014 Dominic Gates (@dominicgates) May 18, 2021<\/a > <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Roll Tape!<\/i><\/div>\n

Boeing has finally been forced to accept the fact that axing hundreds quality inspectors in order to bust the union did now work, and now they are rehiring the inspectors that they laid off<\/a >, and they canned the architect of the failed program: <\/p>\n

The Boeing Co. has quietly recalled at least some of as many as 900 quality control inspectors who were laid off in 2019 as part of a drive to adopt car-industry manufacturing processes in aerospace manufacturing. <\/span> <\/p>\n

The move comes after the union for the inspectors \u2013 Machinists District Lodge 751 \u2013 pushed the company to prove that getting rid of inspectors could be done without risking quality issues and would actually improve production times. <\/span> <\/p>\n

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\u201cOur union\u2019s goal is to save Boeing from making decisions that could be detrimental to (its) future and ours,\u201d union leaders said in its monthly AeroMechanic<\/i> newsletter. \u201cA second set of eyes is a critical component of building Boeing airplanes and necessary for the long-term success of the company.\u201d <\/span> <\/p>\n

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A union spokeswoman said she was unable to say precisely how many of the inspectors were initially laid off, and how many have been brought back since the recalls started. Boeing\u2019s media relations team did not respond to a written list of questions on the topic. <\/span> <\/p>\n

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In theory, if you eliminate the downtime and the inspections a few thousand times on each plane, that adds up to substantial savings in production time without any investment in people or tools.<\/span > <\/p>\n

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IAM 751 appealed to the Federal Aviation Administration to look into Boeing\u2019s plan and made rumblings about getting its supporters in Congress to intervene. Congress is now preparing an investigation<\/a > into quality lapses at Boeing.<\/span > <\/p>\n

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But the deciding factor, in this case, seems to have been the union\u2019s demand to enter into what\u2019s called effects bargaining. Since Boeing was eliminating 900 jobs, the union claimed the right to negotiate over the impact of those changes on its members.<\/span > <\/p>\n

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As a result of these talks, Boeing and the union agreed that a team of union-appointed experts would begin reviewing data in areas where inspections were ending, with the ability to propose reinstating inspections when warranted, using Boeing\u2019s own risk assessment criteria and FAA regulations as guidelines.<\/span > <\/p>\n

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No Efficiency Gains<\/b><\/span><\/span > <\/h5>\n

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What the experts found was that eliminating inspections did not lead to a more efficient production process, the union said.<\/span > <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/a> They f%$#ed up their quality processes for nothing more than the hope that they could fire some union members, and they failed. <\/p>\n

If you fired Boeing’s entire C-Suite and replaced them with dirnking bird toys, you would increase productiveity and product quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2019, a sweeping transformation of Boeing\u2019s quality system deliberately eliminated thousands of quality checks during production and cut 100s of quality inspector jobs. Ernesto Gonzalez-Beltran, the architect of that shift, left the company in Decemberhttps:\/\/t.co\/SbcHIzcnFp \u2014 Dominic Gates (@dominicgates) May 18, 2021 Roll Tape! Boeing has finally been forced to accept the fact that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1005,975,987,1221,1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-business","category-employment","category-fail","category-manufacturing","category-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}