{"id":301036,"date":"2019-11-15T11:33:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T06:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=301036"},"modified":"2019-11-15T11:33:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T06:03:40","slug":"humans-replace-robots-at-boeing-jet-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/humans-replace-robots-at-boeing-jet-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans replace robots at Boeing jet assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago\/Seattle: Score one for the humans. After four years of trial and error, Boeing Co. is dumping one of its most ambitious forays into automation: the robots that build two main fuselage sections for its 777 jetliners and an upgraded version known as 777X.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the Chicago-based planemaker will rely on skilled mechanics to manually insert fasteners into holes drilled along the circumference of the airplane by an automated system known as \u201cflex tracks&#8221;, which it has honed over years of use on the 787 Dreamliner.<\/p>\n<p>The shift to the new human-plus-machine system began during the second quarter and should be complete by the year\u2019s end, Boeing spokesman Paul Bergman said in a statement. Boeing doesn\u2019t plan any change in total staffing for its 777 jetliners, which are manufactured in Everett, Washington, about an hour north of Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago\/Seattle: Score one for the humans. After four years of trial and error, Boeing Co. is dumping one of its most ambitious forays into automation: the robots that build two main fuselage sections for its 777 jetliners and an upgraded version known as 777X. Instead, the Chicago-based planemaker will rely on skilled mechanics to manually insert fasteners into holes drilled along the circumference of the airplane by an automated system known as \u201cflex tracks&#8221;, which it has honed over years of use on the 787 Dreamliner. The shift to the new human-plus-machine system began during the second quarter and should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}