Boeing Adds More Surprise Quality Checks in Its Factories (msn.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/03/138208/boeing-adds-more-surprise-quality-checks-in-its-factories
- Source link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/aviation/boeing-adds-more-surprise-quality-checks-in-its-factories/ar-AA1wTXLb
> The jet maker outlined on Friday more than a dozen steps it has taken in recent months to tackle a manufacturing quality crisis that has forced Boeing to slow production and has put it under the microscope of federal regulators. Some of the steps have been previously reported.
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> Boeing restarted production at its 737 factory in December after a machinists strike stopped work for several months. The company is still producing far fewer 737 MAXs per month than it was in the months before the Alaska Airlines accident. Among the new procedures are another layer of random quality checks where plane parts are commonly removed and then put back. In the case of the MAX involved in last January's incident, workers failed to replace bolts needed to hold a door-plug in place. The plug had been opened to repair faulty rivets.
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/aviation/boeing-adds-more-surprise-quality-checks-in-its-factories/ar-AA1wTXLb
[2] https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/01/24/048249/alaska-air-ceo-says-loose-bolts-found-in-many-boeing-jets
There's an old manufacturing saying.. (Score:3)
"You can't inspect in quality"
It has to be part of the design and the attitude of the workers.
Re: (Score:2)
Add this one "take bean counters out of "management & put the Engineers back in.
Re: There's an old manufacturing saying.. (Score:2)
If I understand the whole Boeing story, the staff was taking quality very serious. But that attitude was soooooooo outdated according to management.
Surprise Quality or Suprise Check (Score:2)
The headline makes it sound like quality _is_ the surprise. :-)
Surprise Motherf*%&er (Score:2)
The [1]memes [knowyourmeme.com] write themselves.
I can see The Onion bringing in a "QA Mofo" to go alongside [2]Herbert Kornfield from Accounts Receivable [google.com].
[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/james-doakes-surprise-motherfucker
[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Atheonion.com+Herbert+Kornfeld
double down (Score:2)
Random quality checks caused a major problem? I know, add more!
quality circus (Score:2)
Leave it to Boeing to make up their own quality circus show. This will cause more problems than it prevents.
This is a bonehead management solution that shows the least amount of commitment and the most amount of business as usual.
SURPRISE! (Score:2)
Surprise! It's the management that's the problem and this won't solve a damn thing. They had a culture of not caring, taking shortcuts, and trying to make their stock price go up at any cost. People like that need to be removed from the company. Also, they really should stop murdering whistleblowers.
I shouldn't laugh, but I can't help it. (Score:2)
The idea of Boeing launching "surprise" quality checks makes me think of a bunch of clowns jumping out of a box and yelling, "SURPRISE!" throwing streamers around and dancing as they scream inspection at the top of their lungs. That company is a clown show top to bottom now. I can't help but laugh at the idea of them improving themselves with "surprise" quality checks, if their routine quality checks have brought them to where they are now.
Why Suprise? (Score:2)
They should be conducting inspections continuously. QA should be a standard part of their engineering process. They killed their QA to increase their stock price. They are only doing surprise inspections to make it look like they are doing something for investors.
Where oversight goes to die (Score:3)
Boeing investigating itself is about as useful as Boeing rubber-stamping its own processes and planes, where if any of those had been up to snuff, their would be no need for investigations in the first place. Anything other than a complete audit by an independent third-party with zero interference from Boeing is a joke.