"And god help us when the supply of service trained engineers for BAE to 'poach' starts to dry up"
Ah, but that's when we'll have redundancies.
Ooer.......
The major hurt from the 2nd Line, or Depth or whatever ****e they call it now, reorganisation is the removal of flexibility from schedules and manpower. With manpower leaned to suit a Pulse-type setup, the ability to deploy 2nd Line manpower at short notice to support an unplanned corrective maintenance task, often on an overseas det, will be virtually non-existent.
In all objectivity, I'm concerned that all I hear is senior officers extolling the virtues of LEAN etc, but no sign of them listening to people with 25 yrs+ engineering experience urging caution and expressing concerns.