Boeing 767: Case Study

The aerospace industry differs from almost all other industry in the huge costs incurred at the product development level as well as the product manufacturing level. A single airplane will have a few million parts that are expected to run better than an ordinary computer that might have a few hundred parts at most. Furthermore safety regulations allow little flexibility and the harsh procedures add to the costs of development and testing. The production and …

…million additional labor hours - Problems might not be detected and corrected immediately because functional testing would have to be done after the two- person cockpit was fully installed. Conclusion: Safety should be the most important fact we consider. Since the second approach might not detect and correct problems immediately, we feel that the first option is preferable to second one. Furthermore, the first one is relative cheaper, only one million additional labor hours required.