|
| Company engineers blame the 787's outsourced supply chain,
| saying that poor quality components are coming from
| subcontractors that have operated largely out of Boeing's
| view.
|
| "The risk to the company is not this battery, even though
| this is really bad right now," said one 787 electrical
| engineer, who asked not to be identified. "The real problem
| is the power panels."
|
| Unlike earlier Boeing jets, he said, the innards of the 787
| power distribution panels -- which control the flow of
| electricity to the plane's many systems -- are "like Radio
| Shack," with parts that are "cheap, plastic and prone to
| failure."
| ...
| "The supplier management organization (at Boeing) didn't
| have diddly-squat in terms of engineering capability when
| they sourced all that work," he said.
| ...
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--bks