The time & energy put into understanding why air accidents happen and creating new procedures so that they don't happen again is seriously impressive. Which is why Boeing management's attempts to cut corners in pursuit of profits is so absolutely terrible and, as I said previously, is why they should be candidates for a Consent Decree.
Luckily, there are still engineers at Boeing willing to sound the alarm:
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With regards to the 737 MAX jet, Boeing was accepting fuselages and assemblies from Spirit AeroSystems, with workers noting that assemblies were not conforming to what Boeing was expecting, resulting in the assemblies being used in manufacturing then repaired after the fact.
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In standard LEAN manufacturing processes, issues such as this would trigger a line shutdown and immediate work to identify and rectify the root cause. It would appear that Boeing has moved away from this philosophy, and I can only imagine what the Boeing workers were thinking all along.
This is unreasonable and unacceptable and frankly everyone in the management chain responsible for this oversight (all the way up to the C-level) should be censured in some way.