Despite growing competition with Airbus, Boeing is changing the way it assembles the 787. Instead of the old pencil-drawing blueprints, Boeing is going high-tech. What I mean by high-tech is Boeing simulated a realistic virtual rollout of the 787 through its entire production stages as a way to keep the real production on schedule. After assembling all of the parts of the 787 separately, the manufactures will assemble the parts together piece by piece in a four-station plan produced by the virtual simulation. Boeing’s new virtual simulation keeps the manufactures and the company on the same page and helps increase the production flow. The first 787 will take several months to build, but the hundredth 787 will take about six days to build. Boeing has further ambitions to decrease the assembly process to only three days, but I think that six days is very good. Boeing isn’t focusing on the speed of the production, but rather the efficiency of the aircraft.
Information of the 787 production taken from Aviation Weekly & Space Technology
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