Sikorsky battling major quality control problems

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T&C seems to be right. News from the HAI web site today:

Sikorsky Executive With Link to Parts Quality Debacle Moves Sideways to Pratt & Whitney

An executive who was assigned a key role in Sikorsky's response to government criticism of its quality control processes has taken a new position at Pratt & Whitney.

Both Sikorsky and Pratt are subsidiaries of United Technologies Corp.

Tom Hutton, formerly Sikorsky's vice president for operations, has taken a job as Pratt's vice president for global parts repair services.Neither Sikorsky nor Pratt would say whether Hutton's move was related to scorching criticism of Sikorsky from a high-ranking Department Of Defense official in Stratford.

Hutton's departure from Sikorsky, announced last week, followed a Nov. 22 letter from Navy Capt. Dorothy Freer to Sikorsky's president, Jeffrey Pino, in which she said the company's response to her complaints of the previous summer had been inadequate.

Pino had previously written to her that Hutton was instructed to "share customer concerns regarding quality" with the company's operations executives. Hutton was also supposed to arrange "communication sessions" that would convey her concerns to "frontline office and factory workers."


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