Boeing to replace 900 inspectors with technology amid increased scrutiny over 737 Max
Source: USA Today
Boeing is pushing ahead on a plan to cut about 900 inspectors, replacing their jobs with technology improvements at its Seattle area factories, despite being under fire for software flaws in the 737 Max and quality issues in its other aircraft.
The union has raised an outcry, calling it a "bad decision" that will "eliminate the second set of eyes on thousands of work packages" in its newsletter to members.
Some 451 inspectors will be transferred to other jobs this year, and about the same number next year, out of a total of about 3,000 at its commercial aircraft operations in the Seattle area, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Local 751, has told its members.
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But when it comes to paring its inspection staff on the West Coast, Boeing says the "QA Transformation Plan" won't undermine safety. Substituting technology gains, it says, will increase quality and effect only "stable" procedures, those in which there is a low probability of mistakes.
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Ummm .... what a grand idea!
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this normalization that "technology" is better than a human eye....................bull shit...................I guess Boeing forgets that when a spy satellite takes a picture, a set of human eyes looks at the picture...................I guess they forgot when some of there planes became convertibles in flight because of technology failure, on the lap joint, thinking that there would not be a failure, until after the fact ..............................................
technology that better HELPS the inspectors, and faster followthrough are the answers.
rocktivity
Whatever in the world could go wrong with this plan? 
Talk about bad timing--with all of the negative publicity re Boeing and lack of adequate concern for safety.
Just goes to show that the arrogance of corporate America knows no bounds.
