Aircraft Manufacturing in the 21st Century

"Aircraft Manufacturing in the 21st Century The Challenge Ahead " Financial Times Conference London by Richard James President, Boeing Europe (9/3/98) Thank you (Michael), and good morning ladies and gentlemen. I'm delighted to take part in this… the 12th Annual Financial Times conference, to be with all of you, and to have the opportunity to share this platform with Adam Brown. I also look forward to the discussion and your questions. As most of you are aware, …

…the challenges of manufacturing aircraft in the 21st century require both effectiveness and efficiency from everyone in our industry. We must do the right things-build the right products for the marketplace and maintain strong, capable industrial teams and we must do things right-use lean and efficient design and production systems to keep costs down and keep quality up. When we do, we will successfully meet the challenges of the 21st century. Thank you very much.