Reply #5: Well .... knowing the pre-production process ... [View All]

[Trajan]

Im sure it looked good on paper .... and 'Aging' issues, like fatigue and corrosion, can be difficult to foretell ... Nevertheless: They placed much faith in their suppliers ability to produce as defined, and either : 1) The definition was insufficient .... or 2) The hardware is not produced as defined ....

We have deadlines in the 'JIT/LEAN' production environment with Bombardier, and we sometimes barely scrape by ... primarily due to production time constraints, since the subsystem design was proven long ago and is quite mature.

I just hope they resolve the issue, because its a big one that can reduce confidence; enough to eventually kill it .....

Those emergency landings are not a huge selling point with customers ....