Boeing is a kickbacks company in a really strange way. They get contracts based on including agreements to source partly from the contracties local area. Adding complexity for contracts and management bonus sake, not efficiency, not redundancy, not expertise. Add onto that a non-existent safety culture and a non-manufacturing/non-aerospace focused management philosophy grafting on from a company that failed and had to be merged into Boeing replacing the previous Boeing management philosophy. Enshitifaction in every area of the company. Heck they moved headquarters from Seattle to Chicago, and now from Chicago to DC. Prioritizing being where the grift is over, you know, being where the functions of the company are so that management has a daily understanding of what the company does. Because to management what the company does is win contracts, not build aerospace products. 'Someone else' takes care of that detail, according to Boeing management. Building those products in now secondary/tertiary to management.
I did ERP/MPR/EBOM/MBOM/BOM systems for aerospace. We have that stuff down. We have systems for this kind of communication down really well. We can build within a small window an airplane with thousands of parts with lead times from 1 day to 3 months to over a year for certain custom config options, with each parts design/FAA approval/manufacturing/installation tracked and audited. Boeing's issue is culture, not humanity's ability to make complex systems.
But I do agree that there is a complexity issue in society in general, and a lot of systems are coasting on the efforts of those that originally put them in place/designed them. A lot of government seems to be this way too. There's also a lot of overhead for overheads sake, but little process auditing/iterative improvement style management.
I did ERP/MPR/EBOM/MBOM/BOM systems for aerospace. We have that stuff down. We have systems for this kind of communication down really well. We can build within a small window an airplane with thousands of parts with lead times from 1 day to 3 months to over a year for certain custom config options, with each parts design/FAA approval/manufacturing/installation tracked and audited. Boeing's issue is culture, not humanity's ability to make complex systems.
But I do agree that there is a complexity issue in society in general, and a lot of systems are coasting on the efforts of those that originally put them in place/designed them. A lot of government seems to be this way too. There's also a lot of overhead for overheads sake, but little process auditing/iterative improvement style management.