@[email protected]M to [email protected]English • 3 months agoBoeing: “The best in the industry used to crawl over shattered glass just to get an interview to work here. And now the company is begging high school students to apply.”labornotes.orgmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up1306cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•3 months agoPresumably a lot of the actual labor costs are hidden in outsourced parts of the build process.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•3 months agoI’d have to figure on airplane parts, 25% of the cost could be on QC alone.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•3 months agoWhat is the expensive part you imagine about QC that isn’t labor? I mean sure, you need the occasional destructive test and some fuel and hangar rent but mainly it is people doing the quality control checks.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•3 months agoI wasn’t. That’s why I figured 3% is ridiculously low.
Presumably a lot of the actual labor costs are hidden in outsourced parts of the build process.
I’d have to figure on airplane parts, 25% of the cost could be on QC alone.
What is the expensive part you imagine about QC that isn’t labor? I mean sure, you need the occasional destructive test and some fuel and hangar rent but mainly it is people doing the quality control checks.
I wasn’t. That’s why I figured 3% is ridiculously low.