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Beyond Boeing Is Playing a Leading Role in the Next Chapter of Human Space Exploration www.boeing.com/frontiers OCTOBER 2012 / Volume XI, Issue VI Above and beyond Boeing is playing a leading role in the next chapter of human space exploration PB BOEING FRONTIERS / OCTOBER 2012 1 BOEING FRONTIERS / OCTOBER 2012 Ad watch On the Cover The stories behind the ads in this issue of Frontiers. Inside cover: “Little Bird” is one in a series of innovation stories told by Boeing employees such as Christine Cameron. Learn more at www.boeing.com/ stories. Page 6: This ad highlights key advantages Boeing’s new 737 MAX jetliner offers over its competitors. The ad was placed in trade magazines in North and South America. Pages 12–13: Featuring a “Made with Japan” theme, this ad celebrates first deliveries of the 787 Dreamliner to Japan Airlines and will be displayed at Haneda Airport in Tokyo through year-end. It reads: “From Japan to the global sky. JAL Boeing 787. We serve you.” 26 The adventure continues Back cover: For more than a half-century Boeing has been a This new industry team leader in the exploration of space—from the days ad highlights the P-8A when a tiny Mercury spacecraft orbited Earth to Poseidon, which began the Apollo moon landings to the space shuttles production deliveries that enabled on-orbit assembly of the International to the U.S. Navy earlier Space Station. The next space age is here, and this year. The print ad Boeing is once again playing a leading role. Across currently appears in the enterprise, employees are working on a range of U.S. political and trade programs—including a powerful rocket that could publications. take astronauts far from their home planet. COVER IMAGE: BOEING IS DESIGNING AND BUILDING THE CORE stages AND avionics FOR THE Space LAUNCH SYSTEM, A POWERFUL ROCKET WITH STRAP-ON BOOSTERS AND A MODIFIED DELta IV UPPER stage THat WILL BE capabLE OF CARRYING ASTRONAUTS TO THE MOON, MARS OR OTHER Distant PLACES. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: BRANDON LUONG/BOEING; SPACE LAUNCH SYSTEM GRAPHIC: BOEING; EARTH AND MARS PHOTOS: SHUTTERSTOCK PHOTO: BOEING EMPLOYEES IN HOUSTON WORK ON THE company’S COMMERCIAL CREW spacecraft, OR CST-100, AS part OF A NASA COMPETITION FOR A NEW spacecraft TO FERRY ASTRONAUTS TO AND FROM THE InternationaL Space FSC LOGO Station AND TO OTHER LOW EartH ORBIT MISSIONS. BOB FERGUSON/BOEING BOEING FRONTIERS / OCTOBER 2012 3 Frontiers Publisher: Tom Downey Editorial director: Anne Toulouse EDITORIAL TEAM Executive editor: Paul Proctor: 312-544-2938 Editor: James Wallace: 312-544-2161 table of contents Managing editor: Vineta Plume: 312-544-2954 Showing Graphic designers: Brandon Luong: 312-544-2118 16 his mettle Cass Weaver: 480-216-4539 Meet Daniel Sanders, a Boeing Senior Photo director: Bob Ferguson: 312-544-2132 Technical Fellow and one of the company’s experts in metal technology. Commercial Airplanes editor: Don Smith: 206-766-1329 Understanding and developing new metals gives Boeing an advantage over Defense, Space & Security editor: Diane Stratman: 562-797-1443 its competition, and Sanders has been digging metals since an early age. Literally. Engineering, Operations & Technology editor: As a boy, he helped his grandfather mine Junu Kim: 312-544-2939 for gold in the Pacific Northwest. He still Human Resources and Administration enjoys working in his family’s mine today. editor: PHOTO: BOB FERGUSON/BOEING Geoff Potter: 312-544-2946 Shared Services Group editor: Beriah Osorio: 425-577-4157 Where Staff writer: Eric Fetters-Walp: 425-266-5871 Eagles dare ONLINE PRODUCTION Boeing’s F-15 Eagle continues to evolve, Web manager: with many new capabilities being added, Wendy Manning: 312-544-2936 and it’s continuing to meet customers’ Web designer: needs. An advanced new version of the Michael Craddock: 312-544-2931 fighter, the Silent Eagle, incorporates Web developers: stealth technology that can make it less Lynn Hesby: 312-544-2934 visible to radar. PHOTO: U.S. AIR FORCE Keith Ward: 312-544-2935 Information technology consultant: Tina Skelley: 312-544-2323 36 HOW TO CONTACT US: E-mail: [email protected] Mailing address: Boeing Boeing Frontiers MC: 5003-0983 42 100 N. Riverside Plaza in Turkey Chicago, IL 60606 Turkey is a fast-growing market for Phone: Boeing commercial and military products 312-544-2954 and the company is helping develop Fax: the Turkish aerospace supplier base. 312-544-2078 Boeing Turkey also is an enthusiastic Web address: corporate citizen—having completed www.boeing.com/frontiers nearly 200 projects around the country Send all retiree address changes to Boeing Frontiers, MC 3T-12 from arts and culture to education to P.O. Box 3707 health and human services. More than Seattle, WA 98124-2207 135,000 children have benefited. Postmaster: Send address corrections to PHOTO: GTC COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANCY Boeing Frontiers, MC 3T-12 P.O. Box 3707, Seattle, WA 98124-2207 (Present addressees, include label) BOEING FRONTIERS / OCTOBER 2012 5 table of contents Flying into the future INSIDE 20 Boeing last month took its 2012 ecoDemonstrator, a new 07 Leadership Message 737-800 that will eventually go to American Airlines, to a remote location in Montana to test advanced technology that could make It’s a great time to be at Boeing, airplanes more quiet and efficient and reduce carbon dioxide with unprecedented demand for the emissions. Following testing in Montana, the ecoDemonstrator company’s products and services, flew to Washington, D.C., to highlight the strong collaboration says Ray Conner, president and between industry and government the program represents. chief executive officer of Commercial PHOTO: BOB FERGUSON/BOEING Airplanes. But there are still lots of challenges and Boeing faces stiff competition from new jetliner manufacturers entering the market. For the company to continue to grow and prosper, Conner says, employees must innovate, execute work flawlessly—and always put the customer first. 08 Snapshot/Quotables 09 Why We’re Here 10 Historical Perspective 45 Milestones 50 In Focus BOEING FRONTIERS / OCTOBER 2012 5 6 BOEING FRONTIERS / OCTOBER 2012 BOEING FRONTIERS / OCTOBER 2012 7 Leadership Message Navigating the future To increase market share and be profitable, Boeing must always put the customer first ’m proud of the extraordinary team we have at Boeing. Since stepping into my new role at Commercial Airplanes in late “ Our performance and IJune, I’ve seen firsthand the strides we’ve made to meet our investment today determines customer commitments. A lot of hard work by dedicated and talented people goes into ensuring we deliver the best products our future tomorrow.” and services to our customers every day. I think it’s a great time to be at Boeing. We are in the midst of a uniquely exciting period in our industry. Demand for our products – Ray Conner and services is unprecedented and continues to grow. We have a President and chief executive officer tremendous opportunity to increase customer trust by delivering Boeing Commercial Airplanes on our backlog. And we have the right team in place to design, PHOTO: JOHN CROZIER/BOEING build and deliver these amazing products and services. We have lots of challenges as well. We share a business land- • The quality and performance of our products and services scape with a capable and established competitor, and additional • The innovative way we design and build our airplanes players are entering the market. Our customers urgently need • The strength and talent of our team more efficient and affordable products and services that will help • Our production rate capacity them be profitable. Over the next three years, we will increase airplane production At Boeing, we have a culture and long legacy of raising the rates by 30 percent across all programs. Flawless execution on bar. We’ve launched some of the most successful and enduring these increases is pivotal. Due to the high demand for our prod- programs in aviation history: the 737, 767, 747, 777 and 787, ucts, increasing capacity each year provides a major competitive while continuing to evolve to newer products like the 737 MAX, advantage for us. the 787-9 and the 767-based aerial refueling tanker. And we are We can meet the demand through innovation. But that’s not just committed to expanding future twin-aisle offerings. about the design of the airplane. It’s also about how we build the Successfully navigating our future requires execution and airplane. The materials we use need to be affordable and efficient to discipline. Our performance and investment today determines work with. Our design and build process has to eliminate waste and our future tomorrow. increase productivity across our production system, and suppliers’. We have to earn success. We also have to increase our first-time quality. Quality “escapes” not Although our products are among the most complex on the only lower the value and integrity of our product; they hurt relationships planet, our strategic objectives are simple: to increase Boeing’s with customers whose highest priorities are quality and safety. market share and be profitable. Finally, one of the most important ingredients of Boeing’s To do this, everything we do must be rooted in adding value success is our team. We need to continue to develop our people, to our customers’ business. We have to give our customers to anticipate the skills we will need in the future and to provide the reason to buy our products, not the competition’s. I have a simple best training available. Just as we evolve the way we design and philosophy: Put the customer first and you can’t go wrong. build airplanes, we have to continue to evolve ourselves. To customers, we differentiate ourselves in four main ways: Thank you, all. Together we are building the future.
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