Boeing forms new avionics group
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Boeing forms new avionics group
Setting up Boeing Avionics is tantamount to an admission that Boeing made a mistake 14 years ago as the 787 Dreamliner program was launched.
That’s when Boeing dissolved an in-house organization created in the 1980s called Boeing Commercial Electronics (BCE), dispersing 1,200 engineers in Everett who designed electronic controls for all its airliners and selling off a plant in Irving, Texas, where another 1,200 people built the hardware.
The move, part of a broad handoff of control to airplane-systems suppliers, was intended to cut Boeing’s costs.
Dwight Schaeffer, a former senior manager at BCE, said Boeing tried on the 787 to cut the one-time cost of developing its new airplane by outsourcing work to “get someone else to pay for it.”
The result was “a disaster,” he said.
That’s when Boeing dissolved an in-house organization created in the 1980s called Boeing Commercial Electronics (BCE), dispersing 1,200 engineers in Everett who designed electronic controls for all its airliners and selling off a plant in Irving, Texas, where another 1,200 people built the hardware.
The move, part of a broad handoff of control to airplane-systems suppliers, was intended to cut Boeing’s costs.
Dwight Schaeffer, a former senior manager at BCE, said Boeing tried on the 787 to cut the one-time cost of developing its new airplane by outsourcing work to “get someone else to pay for it.”
The result was “a disaster,” he said.
Last edited by underfire; 22nd Aug 2017 at 00:46.
