07-09-2015, 02:10 AM
(07-07-2015, 11:24 PM)MacBerry Wrote: Boeing learned this the hard way about 10-15 years ago. They had a difficult time getting contracts in the early 2000s as was posted here about the possible future of Bombardier.
Really short version: Boeing's plan was to have the 787 built in various pieces in various cheapest producer regions in the world (mainly China and the other east Asia countries) would ship all the components to Seattle or Long Beach: wings, tail, landing gear and so on.
When they tried to fit all the pieces together, just like Bombardier, the pieces didn't fit. They had to basically start over and choose the best manufacturers and bring most back in house. They also lost lots of manufacturing intelligence to the world's largest country and then began to worry they were putting the company out of business.
Bombardier learned a lot of lessons from the 787 debacle (and to a lesser extent from the A380) so their approach to the C-Series was far more conservative, and they subsequently brought additional work in-house. They have far more financial constraints than Boeing, though, and a brand-new engine design, so they are still significantly delayed.
All of that has very little to do with our LRT trains, though.