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Following reports of battery failures onboard Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an “emergency airworthiness directive” temporarily grounding the airliners. That’s supremely bad news for Boeing, which poured millions of dollars into the 787’s development…
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“And at the moment, Boeing has a big data job on its hands…”
No, they have an outsourcing problem! Big data wouldn’t even be a contemplated fix if they had used the institutional data already held by US based suppliers, and unionized labor in Everett, WA.
It’s not just batteries, there are occasional fuel leaks. Probably from inexperienced assemblers who don’t know that just because the parts fit in the CAD files doesn’t mean they will when you start to bend and fasten metal.
Many of us in IT know outsourcing is a problem. But managers don’t care as long as their bonuses come in. What happens when an airplane falls out of the sky?
Fred, I think what you’re saying is a red herring. What this story is really about is how Boeing and General Electric, American companies, are using data in more intensive ways. Seems to me that you’re making some generalizations here based on speculation. The fuel leaks, from what I’ve read, have been traced to a valve failure – not an assembly failure. The unit’s manufacturer is in the UK.