Posted on 07/01/2019 12:15:56 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
It remains the mystery at the heart of Boeing Co.’s 737 Max crisis: how a company renowned for meticulous design made seemingly basic software mistakes leading to a pair of deadly crashes. Longtime Boeing engineers say the effort was complicated by a push to outsource work to lower-paid contractors.
The Max software -- plagued by issues that could keep the planes grounded months longer after U.S. regulators this week revealed a new flaw -- was developed at a time Boeing was laying off experienced engineers and pressing suppliers to cut costs.
Increasingly, the iconic American planemaker and its subcontractors have relied on temporary workers making as little as $9 an hour to develop and test software, often from countries lacking a deep background in aerospace -- notably India.
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You get what you pay for.................
You mean like H1B Visas?
Boeing proves the old adage: “Penny wise. Pound foolish.”
On the day the accident occurred I posted about “which country was the software written in?”...
Toldya!
Bloggers would do it cheaper.
And they paid the obama Foundation $10 million?
What are you whining about now. It’s a yahoo finance link not a blog.
Jumping over dollars to save dimes!
Unfortunately, the people who will suffer had nothing to do with the decision.
Imagine that....
Ultimately, it was the V&V plan developer that failed to test for, and identify these problems
Ain’t H1B’s grand?
In offices across from Seattle’s Boeing Field, recent college graduates employed by the Indian software developer HCL Technologies Ltd. occupied several rows of desks, said Mark Rabin, a former Boeing software engineer who worked in a flight-test group that supported the Max.
The coders from HCL were typically designing to specifications set by Boeing. Still, “it was controversial because it was far less efficient than Boeing engineers just writing the code,” Rabin said. Frequently, he recalled, “it took many rounds going back and forth because the code was not done correctly.”
Boeing’s cultivation of Indian companies appeared to pay other dividends. In recent years, it has won several orders for Indian military and commercial aircraft, such as a $22 billion one in January 2017 to supply SpiceJet Ltd. That order included 100 737-Max 8 jets and represented Boeing’s largest order ever from an Indian airline, a coup in a country dominated by Airbus.
Based on resumes posted on social media, HCL engineers helped develop and test the Max’s flight-display software, while employees from another Indian company, Cyient Ltd., handled software for flight-test equipment.
In one post, an HCL employee summarized his duties with a reference to the now-infamous model, which started flight tests in January 2016: “Provided quick workaround to resolve production issue which resulted in not delaying flight test of 737-Max (delay in each flight test will cost very big amount for Boeing).”
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Sounds like it was a business decision to save money. Now the company has to deal with this bad decision.
Gotta love that H1B and H2B visa program.
Ah, but since “An Engineer is an Engineer” and there’s no difference where the work is done since the managers who make such decisions only look at the number of advanced degrees and cost per hour, there couldn’t be any oversights or failures in V&V. Because that is taught at IIT and all engineers have enjoyed the privilege of taking it and thus know what needed to be known.
$9 an hour “engineers”???????
Where were these “engineers”???? Haiti??? Sri Lanka??? Uganda????
Exactly.
Guess you didn’t get a chance to catch the last 2 words in the excerpt. ;-)
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