Boeing 787 'Lean' Factory Relies On Global Supply Network
By: Michael Mecham Boeing's opening of the 787 final assembly line in Building 40-26 is a strange site. Even though fuselage join is half completed and wings are ready to be mated on the first aircraft, the 385,000-square-foot assembly bay is mostly empty. That's because the tools used to position...
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