Instead of doing most shit in-house, they contracted out shit tons of parts to the lowest bidder and they jenga all the pieces together. Kind of like when you buy an hp laptop, even though HP doesn’t make a single piece of their laptop (or even assemble the things). They just arrange for all the pieces they want from all the component manufacturers and buy the parts and have them shipped to the assembly plant that’s to be used.
Comment on Boeing Finds More Misdrilled Holes on 737 in Latest Setback
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 7 months ago
Have Boeing considered simply not fucking up the building of their main product?
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Instead of doing most shit in-house, they contracted out shit tons of parts to the lowest bidder
No that’s not true. What happened is they found things that were not profitable to do in-house and… sold those parts of their manufacturing process to third party investors.
… who then needed to figure out how to make it profitable. And the only way to do that is by cutting costs.
Plopp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The world’s tiniest violin…
ExLisper@linux.community 7 months ago
Isn’t their main product weapons?
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 7 months ago
I suppose a weapon is something that falls from the sky causing death. So yeah.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
🙌
zarp86@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Defense, Space and Cybersecurity account for 39% of Boeing’s revenue.
jaybone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Interesting. I wonder what they do in the cybersecurity area.
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Drill holes in the wrong places?
grayman@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Well, considering they don’t build their product (it’s contacted out), probably not.
weew@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
But then the executives will make less money
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 7 months ago
Oh shit, yeah, that’s true. Didn’t think of that ‘cause I’m just a regular guy without a business degree.
No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
More likely the issue is they would need to find/hire competent executives, not friends/family/insider nepo-folk. This will be a challenge for a board comprised of friends/family/insider nepo-folk.