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A Boeing Of Asia? It could happen, now that airbus and Boeing build planes in global factories.(outsourcing of aircraft manufacture)
Byline: Emily Flynn Vencat (With Christian Caryl in Tokyo)
The prototype of the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner is being built in a virtual factory so big, it effectively spans continents. Engineers in Japan build the wings, Koreans add the raked wingtips, Brits refine the Rolls-Royce engines, while Italians and Texans fit the horizontal stabilizer and center fuselage. Project managers in Everett, Washington, watch it all take shape with 3-D glasses that allow them to walk around the digital prototype and monitor every change made by their 6,000 workers worldwide, just as if the model were being assembled in a real factory.
The ultimate manufacturing ...
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