Airbus to become world’s biggest plane maker as Boeing’s deliveries plunge over 737 MAX disaster

[Humble Analyst]

Mate in addition to my primary aerospace degree (BS & MS), I did MS in CS with specialisation in mission and safety critical systems and my business is based on that. Thus I call it the failure of Boeings top management. Because we also develop a software that controls our security devices. We never outsourced it and we pay a hefty amount to our in house development team that comprises PhDs and MS with a few BS. Kernel of the software is highly guarded secret to eliminate any chance of hacking. So I really found it shocking that Boeing would outsource such a critical piece of software. Each platform carries 100's of lives and thousands of Boeings flying every day around the globe so 100s of 1000s of lives are at stake.

When some incompetent or over ambitious manager is given a free hand without checks and balances it can result in such failures. Now a days the guys with some cut throat attitude and good presentation skills can falsely sell things to the companies and their bosses which results in down the line small or big failures. Sometimes they can be corrected at other times they have far reaching effects.
Information overload, stretched and unrealistic goals have pushed the competent personnel behind because of yes men.

 

[Arulmozhi Varman]

let me rephrase; HCL is a big company but they are NOT into software development. HCL is now trying to move into this arena. They got what they paid for.

Kindly if you have no idea kindly refrain from making yourself look like an idiot.

 

[war&peace]

When some incompetent or over ambitious manager is given a free hand without checks and balances it can result in such failures. Now a days the guys with some cut throat attitude and good presentation skills can falsely sell things to the companies and their bosses which results in down the line small or big failures. Sometimes they can be corrected at other times they have long reaching effects.
Information overload, stretched and unrealistic goals have pushed the competent personnel behind because of yes men.

It has to do with the lack of competition. Boeing has been a single major player since the failure of DC10 and then the merger of MD and Boeing it turned into a monopoly especially in USA and thus it has a lot of influence on US gov and FAA. So its management overlooked many safety procedures and focussed mainly on the profits and beating the competition from Airbus

 

[Michael Corleone]

Hey
Report: Boeing outsourced 737 MAX software development to $9/hr subcontractors

Boeing's fault... not the coders... coders can only improve their skills if there's complaints to how they implement the code...
also partly coders fault... i read somewhere that they didn't bother to write sticky notes next to the codes for future troubleshooting

 

[war&peace]

Boeing's fault... not the coders... coders can only improve their skills if there's complaints to how they implement the code...
also partly coders fault... i read somewhere that they didn't bother to write sticky notes next to the codes for future troubleshooting

Please read through me posts on this thread

 

[UKBengali]

I predicted this at the time of the Ethiopian Max crash.
Boeing will survive but Airbus will be the larger airline company for many years now. Confidence in Boeing will take long time to restore.

 

[war&peace]

I predicted this at the time of the Ethiopian Max crash.
Boeing will survive but Airbus will be the larger airline company for many years now. Confidence in Boeing will take long time to restore.

A lot of airlines are quite shocked with the revelations so the orders will reduce drastically for Boeing.

 

[UKBengali]

A lot of airlines are quite shocked with the revelations so the orders will reduce drastically for Boeing.

If this can be allowed to happen at Boeing then what else can happen in the future?
In the transport sector, especially airlines, safety is everything.
Greed has put paid to Boeing's reputation that took decades to build up.

 

[denel]

Kindly if you have no idea kindly refrain from making yourself look like an idiot.

well sorry to break your bubble. I have worked with these companies for now 15 years - so take your pick - TCS, HCL, Wipro, Cognizant, Infosys. Complete trash - this is bulk of your companies.

I am speaking about full cycle software engineering cycle work, certification - not just programming; they have no clue ... I mean zero. Let us talk about HCL - they are just getting into software; they are primarily running data centers. It takes sometimes 25 people to do what a good all round software engineer is here.

Here things got so bad, where i was consulting, we had to give a 60 day notice to TCS to pack up bags and get out. The days here of indian IT are no more; every one who tried to go that route suffered to the nth degree. Of a total of 300+ people I have dealt with, I found only 3 good enough; that is 1/300 ratio.

cheers.

 

[denel]

Boeing's fault... not the coders... coders can only improve their skills if there's complaints to how they implement the code...
also partly coders fault... i read somewhere that they didn't bother to write sticky notes next to the codes for future troubleshooting

Please correct - This is NOT coding. Guys this is Software engineering principles and methodologies which were negated by Boeing at the expense of cost. They assumed everything was matured and could be handed over to monkeys. well give a monkey set of matches, they will burn the house down.

 

[CIA Mole]

someone needs to be in prison

so many died

 

[Michael Corleone]

Please correct - This is NOT coding. Guys this is Software engineering principles and methodologies which were negated by Boeing at the expense of cost. They assumed everything was matured and could be handed over to monkeys. well give a monkey set of matches, they will burn the house down.

They also skipped on putting those sensors on the nose through various safety tests