Boeing Plans Lean and Perhaps Moving Production Line for 747-8

Boeing certainly will keep its lean manufacturing strategy for the 747-8 production line in Everett, Wash., when that stretch version of the 747-400 begins assembly in 2008. But it hasn't decided if it will employ a moving line, as it does for 737s at its Renton factory. "We don't want to make the...

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