FLOW CONTROL

Flow time reduction efforts at Boeing's Everett factory have cut from 138 days to 83 days the time it takes to assemble a 777 transport. The aim is to further reduce the process, described as the period from starting assembly of the wings to airplane delivery, to 70 days by the end of 2001...

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