Moving Assembly Line

Boeing's Long Beach Div. is conducting phased development of a continuously moving production line for 717 final assembly aimed ultimately at cutting span-time for the twinjet by more than 50% compared with previous MD-80 production. The changes are borrowed to a large extent from Japanese...

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