...te:  05/19/2010 SEATTLE - GM Nameplate isn’t exactly a household name, but its products are well-known to anyone who has flown on a Boeing airplane in recent years. From a midsize... ...erGraphics division. Boeing Co. is one of the nation’s biggest and best-known manufacturers, employing 158,000 workers and producing tens of billions of dollars worth of commercial jets and def... ...plane — the 737, its smallest and most popular commercial jet — the company relies on a complex web of hundreds of suppliers providing everything from engines and fuselages to seats and ex... ...kind of pride ourselves on being a large-scale systems integrator,” said John Hamilton, chief engineer for the 737 program. “The more efficient we get, the longer we stay in the phone boo... ... the thousands of parts that transform the fuselage from an empty shell to a flight-ready machine. Employees work around the clock five days a week on multiple airplanes, producing 31.5 new 737s a month, with each 737 coming together in 11 days. About 9,800 employees work in the Renton facility on both the 737 program and the P/8A Poseidon, a military version produced ... ...plate has production facilities in China and Singapore but said it would not make sense to make the products for Boeing there.“It’d cost more to ship it back than it would to produce it he... ... interior panels from an industrial oven. By the end of the day, about 100 of those panels would be completed and shipped 30 miles south to the 737 plant in Renton to be installed on a new airplane, p... ...d, from GM Nameplate, leaves little inventory sitting around, which saves money. Hamilton, the 737 engineer, concedes the company could move its interiors manufacturing to an overseas supplier but sa... ...er to introduce a new, more efficient engine to the aircraft, a move that would require other major design changes. The company also could move to a completely new airplane design, a costly undertaking that may be difficult as it is still flight-testing the brand new 787, the wi... ...ment airplanes,” said aerospace analyst Scott Hamilton with Leeham Co. John Hamilton, the 737 engineer, said he doesn’t envision the company moving its assembly any time soon. “I th... ...Announcements msn.gif SEATTLE - GM Nameplate isn’t exactly a household name, but its products are well-known to anyone who has flown on a Boeing airplane in recent years. GM N...

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... Release Date:  02/16/2011 (SEATTLE, WA, February 16, 2011) – GM Nameplate, today announced that it has received a 2010 Boeing Performance Excellence Award. The Boeing ...

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