{"id":653963,"date":"2025-11-26T08:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=653963"},"modified":"2025-11-26T08:15:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:45:54","slug":"boeing-gaining-ground-in-war-against-defects-at-737-jet-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeing-gaining-ground-in-war-against-defects-at-737-jet-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing gaining ground in \u2018war against defects\u2019 at 737 jet plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Boeing Co. wages a battle with quality lapses in its 737 factory outside Seattle, there are signs of progress, like the silence that engulfs the factory complex at 10:30 a.m. every Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The clattering of tools halts for an hour as mechanics stop building narrowbody jets lined up nose-to-tail and break into small work groups to talk through their on-the-job impediments and irritants. The discussions often center on persistent headaches, like a hole repeatedly drilled in the wrong location by a key supplier, Boeing employees said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Boeing Co. wages a battle with quality lapses in its 737 factory outside Seattle, there are signs of progress, like the silence that engulfs the factory complex at 10:30 a.m. every Wednesday. The clattering of tools halts for an hour as mechanics stop building narrowbody jets lined up nose-to-tail and break into small work groups to talk through their on-the-job impediments and irritants. The discussions often center on persistent headaches, like a hole repeatedly drilled in the wrong location by a key supplier, Boeing employees said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653963","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}