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Boeing and globalization

MMike

A fowl peckerwood.
Sep 5, 2001
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105
just sittin' here drinkin' scotch
I can say that I'm a little nervous.... lord knows I'm not that smart and I've been coasting on my charm and good looks for my entire career....

I am SO going to FORBID my kids from going into engineering......

Japanese wings

Boeing shares work, but guards its secrets
By Dominic Gates

Seattle Times aerospace reporter

The first wings for the 787 Dreamliner are scheduled to land in Everett early this morning, ready-made in Japan.

In a sharp break with the past, the 787's wings are made out of composite plastic rather than metal. But, just as revolutionary, Boeing delegated to Mitsubishi of Japan a big slice of the design work.......
 

MMike

A fowl peckerwood.
Sep 5, 2001
18,207
105
just sittin' here drinkin' scotch
But you're in a country with no technology. Of course you'd be keen on the big techno-giants handing stuff out to other places...

cushy, high-paying aerospace contract jobs are going to be lost. That is NO for me at ALL......
 

MikeD

Leader and Demogogue of the Ridemonkey Satinists
Oct 26, 2001
11,669
1,713
chez moi
Think about all the starving Japanese this will help feed.
 

Fshflys

Monkey
Jun 29, 2005
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1
MMike's right I too am a victim. My previous employer built a facility in India, staffed it with locals and shipped my job over there. Especially in the computer global environment we are in today, you don't have to be sitting next to the server to work on it. A coworker went over to India for knowledge transfer he said right next to the CSC building was an IBM building, next to that another US owned corporation
 

jimmydean

The Official Meat of Ridemonkey
Sep 10, 2001
40,942
13,135
Portland, OR
Intel does it all day. They staff up a huge development team, do all the research and initial development, then when they have reached a stable base, they ship the first rev to customers and the project goes to either China, or India.

Intel learned years ago that it was cheaper to ship the work to India/China than to bring the workers here. Now with immigration reform, it's even cheaper.

<edit> Become a plummer or an electrician, they can't farm out on-site labor jobs.
 

SkaredShtles

Michael Bolton
Sep 21, 2003
65,379
12,533
In a van.... down by the river
MMike's right I too am a victim. My previous employer built a facility in India, staffed it with locals and shipped my job over there. Especially in the computer global environment we are in today, you don't have to be sitting next to the server to work on it. A coworker went over to India for knowledge transfer he said right next to the CSC building was an IBM building, next to that another US owned corporation
 

Toshi

Harbinger of Doom
Oct 23, 2001
38,037
7,554
'Cos they're smarter and better looking than he is. Not to mention about twice the size.
hey, japanese people are taller than 34 inches! i have it on good authority that mmike actually is a nigerian dwarf goat wearing a "man suit" crafted hannibal lecter style...