High-Quality Version Of IKEA Approach Comes To Skunk Works

Speed Racer flight demonstrator
The Speed Racer flight demonstrator is intended to prove that the Skunk Works approach to digital engineering and manufacturing can work on a high-volume production line.
Credit: Lockheed Martin
The assembly model for IKEA, Sweden’s globally ubiquitous seller of ready-to-assemble (albeit, sometimes wobbly) furniture, makes for an unlikely point of comparison to the high-performance aerospace products coming out of Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works. But Skunk Works executives insist the...

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