Aerospace Executives Finally Rediscover The Shop Floor
Boeing and its top-tier suppliers are listening more to their own factory floor workers now as everyone targets a reduction in quality problems.
Credit: Seattle Times pool
For decades in aerospace and defense manufacturing, top executives saw the factory floor as a place to lean out, automate, offshore and outsource—along with subjugating worker pay and benefits. But after someone on Boeing’s production line reportedly left out the restraining bolts intended to keep a...
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