Assembly of Boeing’s big jets begins in the “spar shop” at the back of its manufacturing complex in Everett, where the long structural beams at the back and front of the wings are drilled and fastened ...

Production of Boeing’s large 777 twinjet in Everett is significantly backed up, with incomplete jobs on each aircraft forcing catch-up work, some of which is being finished only after the jets roll ...

(Adds details on Boeing's use of automation for 777) Nov 14 (Reuters) - Boeing Co has scaled back use of automation to make fuselage sections for its 777 jetliners amid reports of reliability issues ...

Boeing is radically revamping how it will build the 777 widebody jet – a plane that still earns it vital profits despite a slowdown in sales and production rate, so it can’t afford to stop the factory ...

This was Boeing's problem: a new version of the 777 with a new engine and a composite wing will enter service in 2020, but the older version with a metallic wing will likely stay in production as a ...

November 14, 2006 The moving production line concept was around for more than a century before Henry Ford famously used it to speed output and cut costs and hence transform the automotive industry a ...

Boeing Co has scaled back use of automation to make fuselage sections for its 777 jetliners amid reports of reliability issues and returned to having mechanics do some of the work, the planemaker said ...

Boeing is radically revamping how it will build the 777 widebody jet — a plane that still earns it vital profits despite a slowdown in sales and production rate, so it can’t afford to stop the factory ...