SEA_Tigger
Dec 3, 04, 2:34 pm
Boeing employees will gather in Everett this afternoon to celebrate the rollout of the 500th 777 wide-body jet (a 777-300ER for Air France).
But behind the hoopla for Boeing's star jetliner — one of the commercial-airplanes division's biggest cash generators — top executives have some anxieties.
"This is the premier twin-aisle airplane in the world," Dan Becker, the man in charge of all the airplane programs in Everett...Then he added: "It has only one problem. It costs too much."
Inside the Everett plant, Boeing is dramatically transforming the production line, cutting costs to the bone so that it can sell the plane more competitively.
Internal documents reveal Boeing hopes the makeover will reduce its manufacturing costs by 7 percent, 7 percent and 15 percent in the next three years and will shrink the time it takes to assemble each 777 jet from 26 days to just eight.
Full article at http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002108087_777boeing03.html
But behind the hoopla for Boeing's star jetliner — one of the commercial-airplanes division's biggest cash generators — top executives have some anxieties.
"This is the premier twin-aisle airplane in the world," Dan Becker, the man in charge of all the airplane programs in Everett...Then he added: "It has only one problem. It costs too much."
Inside the Everett plant, Boeing is dramatically transforming the production line, cutting costs to the bone so that it can sell the plane more competitively.
Internal documents reveal Boeing hopes the makeover will reduce its manufacturing costs by 7 percent, 7 percent and 15 percent in the next three years and will shrink the time it takes to assemble each 777 jet from 26 days to just eight.
Full article at http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002108087_777boeing03.html