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That would call into question the whole "design team" philosophy Boeing advertised, where members of manufacturing sat in on preliminary design meetings to identify those that were unproducable.
Forgive my innocence but - surely ANY company designing a complex device has manufacturing involved from Day 1?
Since Boeing have been doing this for a few years now, they know the way to get departments pulling together. Unless, of course, they have got carried away by some new fangled mgmt speak guru and trend in ways to save money - on paper.
It's just that, being an old bloke who has been around the block before, I have seen a few reinventions of the wheel that were found not to be quite as good as was originally stated.