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Gary Stachelski 202114-Mar-24 5:00
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The conversion to McDonnell Douglas management philosophies is nearly complete. At the time of the great merger between Boing and McDonnell Douglas the DC 10 fiasco was rapidly sinking that company. After the merger the cancerous "Maximizing Shareholder Value" took hold in Boing and the march to lower levels of quality had begun. The share value soared and nobody cared that Boing QA teams were decimated in the process. Boing engineers understood that people make mistakes and in a complicated machine like an airplane mistakes could have deadly consequences. So assembly teams had extra time factored into assembly to handle the inevitable delays incurred when QA caught mistakes. But this raised costs and lowered productivity. This did NOT maximize share holder value. QA teams became single QA persons who could only enter problems into a system and no longer affect the production of a plane. Assembly team size also shrunk and strict assembly times were enforced. Missing bolts for a door, put the door up, enter the missing bolts into a system and move on. Somebody else would handle the problem later.

Now the merry-go-round has stopped and the FAA is left holding the bag as the big bad government regulator that has to point out the glaring deficiencies. Boing management is left with hollow promises to make things better but the excess money is gone, gobbled up by stock buy backs that "Maximized Share Holder Value". There is no spare money to throw at increasing team sizes without affecting the value of the stock. Like the DC10 of old, the customers are voting with their feet and refusing to fly on the Boing Max planes. Airlines are starting to review their long term orders and reducing the demand for these controversial airplanes.

Its just sad.
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