Tuesday, June 12, 2007

large-scale manufacturing projects and final assembly


Boeing 777 : entirely CAD designed video

Boeing manufacturing simulation.

747 58,000 thrust demo.

787 dreamliner plastic jet. Ms. West's take on this is the manufacturing floor has changed from blue-collar worker to high-tech personnel with hand-held computers. Planes are still made the same way, the dirty work is being farmed out. Sub-assemblies are made globally to reduce the costs of union workers and to politically encourage sales back to the foreign countries.

I appreciate that Boeing let Airbus have the not-big-enough-for-two jumbo jet market. Airbus A380 will have a successful, but difficult time selling the enormous cargo jet that can't land on a standard runway.

Thank you for the article!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

For an amazing production story - you should checkout/research the 787 dreamliner.

July 18, 2007 at 7:46 AM
Anonymous said...

did you know that it takes 10,000 suppliers from all 50 states in this country to support the manufacturing of a Boeing 747?

July 18, 2007 at 4:28 PM

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