Sure, but that would still be a worlds first basically. It's not an incorrect install, it's intentionally not doing it and then lying about it. For a random seat related fixture, sure. But withholding critical parts in manufacturing just because you don't want to wait and do a more involved rebuild basically hasn't ever happened in aviation. It's not just short sighted and it's basically impossible for a single individual to have done this and sweep it under the rug. It would involve quite a few people from Spirit to sign off on it and sign their ticket directly to jail because they didn't want to wait. And then openly lying about it to Boeing at first by "painting over the parts", admitting to that lie, and then just not do it even if it's documented that they haven't done it.
I mean sure maybe but at best I'd guess the comment is based on the truth but with heavy hyperbole. And no matter what is said about Boeing, they still have in house inspectors and Qa. Even the laziest QA with no process management other than a spreadsheet would've caught this or raised a red flag. Would've also been believable if QA was overridden by management or something, but nope, nothing was raised according to the comment
probably the banal explanation is that they have two record systems (one official, one where the real notes are) and things get lost in translation between the two. The seal gets fixed, but the bolts reinstall work order doesn't get tracked.
> Context:
CMES – Common Manufacturing Execution System
SAT – Situation Action Tracker
Spirit employees cannot get write access to CMES, by process.
Going back to P poor quality of fuselage deliveries in 2018 Spirit teams have been onsite in Renton & Moses Lake.
It was common that Spirit could be doing out of sequence work all the way after factory rollout.
Frequently Boeing Senior Managers demanded CMES access for Spirit teams, but it can’t be allowed. Access to SAT is fine because it is not a production system.
When Wichita was part of Boeing system access was not an issue.
The only way to integrate Spirit SAT entries & info into CMES is manually, and that is tedious and error prone. Information escapes are unavoidable when 2 companies are working in multiple systems of “record”.
I mean sure maybe but at best I'd guess the comment is based on the truth but with heavy hyperbole. And no matter what is said about Boeing, they still have in house inspectors and Qa. Even the laziest QA with no process management other than a spreadsheet would've caught this or raised a red flag. Would've also been believable if QA was overridden by management or something, but nope, nothing was raised according to the comment