BOEING is phasing out its automation system for producing 777 fuselage sections

Stephen Costley November 22, 2019
BOEING is phasing out its automation system for producing 777 fuselage sections due to unreliability problems; it is moving to a new flex tracks system, that automatically drills holes/manually fastens, to be completed by end 2019.
Stephen Costley

Steve Costley is responsible for the overall production SpeedNews. Steve has over 30 years of experience with SpeedNews, now part of the Aviation Week Network. He joined the company in August 1989 as an Associate Editor and was named Managing Editor in 1994. He was also named Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of SpeedNews, Inc., in the late 1990s, and held those titles until Prism Business Media acquired the company from Gil Speed in 2006.

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