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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
Very difficult to coordinate suppliers around the world that are responsible for complex and interconnected parts.
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This is exactly what Boeing claims is its strength, though. They claim to be a "large scale systems integrator". Look at ISS and GMD. That's exactly what those programs required.
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One instance in which outsourcing typically is not worth the trouble, at a minimum Boeing should have done the design work in-house and outsourced manufacturing (IMHO).
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Boeing saw outsourcing as a way to increase "shareholder value". I think the pendulum swung too far, though. Boeing decided that they could make more money paying someone else to do the design and fabrication and simply "manage the interfaces" and do the final assembly. When I was a design engineer on the GMD program, all of design engineering (and that was large program) was brought into a room where we were told we were "dinosaurs" and that if we wanted a future at Boeing, we needed to change our skill set to become "system engineers".
Boeing is loaded with sharp people and problems like this are simply going to happen. Boeing needs to work through the problem and solve it. That's all.