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1. 1. www.netcomposites.co.uk

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   Published on: 6/2/2008   Last Visited: 6/2/2008

   "Boeing is proud to welcome Tata into its family of world-class aerospace suppliers and we are confident that this partnership will help Boeing and Tata leverage mutual best-value capabilities," said Carolyn Corvi, vice president and general manager of Airplane Programs for Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

2. 2. www.industryweek.com

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   Published on: 5/1/2008   Last Visited: 5/8/2008

   Employees were worried they couldn't keep up with the faster pace, says Carolyn Corvi, vice president and general manager of Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
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   "When we first started with lean we thought we were going to hit home runs every time," said Corvi in March when speaking at the Lean Enterprise Institute's (LEI) 2008 Transformation Summit in Orlando.
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   "We started on the 777 maybe naively thinking that the people who worked in the [737] program had seen and appreciated what happened on the 737 and understood why we were asking them to change as well," Corvi says."It turns out they probably didn't have as much of an understanding of what we were doing and why."Management failed to educate the workforce on why the changes were necessary and engage them in the process, she recalls.
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   The company already addressed some of these challenges when it entered into a contract for the first time with a supplier that states both companies will work on lean together, which Corvi adds was not in response to any of the Dreamliner setbacks.
   
   "The strategy is founded more on how do we move ourselves more quickly to leaner production processes that embrace and include our suppliers, and so the foundation for it is more of a lean management system -- not a reaction to changes or results of any of the issues we face with the 787," Corvi told IW.
   
   While the new contractual agreement isn't a reactionary measure, the company may rethink future vendor responsibilities in light of its current struggles.The company used nearly the same supplier base that it has on previous flight programs but outsourced more of the major design work."We've learned since that some of their depth of experience wasn't as great as we had assumed it had been because they've always been very reliable and good suppliers for us, but we expanded their work statement beyond the more traditional work statement that we had asked them to support," Corvi says.
   
   Based on that experience, Boeing will evaluate some of the functions it outsources and "be very conscientious about applying lessons we've learned on the 787," says Corvi.

3. 3. Boeing: FAA Certifies Boeing Next-Generation 737-700 Convertible

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   Published on: 9/7/2000   Last Visited: 6/17/2008

   "We're especially excited to be offering airlines a cargo version of the technologically advanced Next-Generation 737 ," said Carolyn Corvi, Boeing 737 Programs vice president and general manager.