Boeing's 737 Max software outsourced to $9-an-hour engineers
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/comp...llar9-an-hour-engineers/ar-AADzCXz?ocid=ientp
Some excerpts-
The Max software -- plagued by issues that could keep the planes grounded months longer after U.S. regulators this week revealed a new flaw -- was developed at a time Boeing was laying off experienced engineers and pressing suppliers to cut costs.
Increasingly, the iconic American planemaker and its subcontractors have relied on temporary workers making as little as $9 an hour to develop and test software, often from countries lacking a deep background in aerospace -- notably India.
Boeing said the company did not rely on engineers from HCL and Cyient for the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, which has been linked to the Lion Air crash last October and the Ethiopian Airlines disaster in March. The Chicago-based planemaker also said it didn’t rely on either firm for another software issue disclosed after the crashes: a cockpit warning light that wasn’t working for most buyers
Recent simulator tests by the Federal Aviation Administration suggest the software issues on Boeing’s best-selling model run deeper. The company’s shares fell this week after the regulator found a further problem with a computer chip that experienced a lag in emergency response when it was overwhelmed with data.
Sales are another reason to send the work overseas. In exchange for an $11 billion order in 2005 from Air India, Boeing promised to invest $1.7 billion in Indian companies. That was a boon for HCL and other software developers from India, such as Cyient, whose engineers were widely used in computer-services industries but not yet prominent in aerospace.
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It's a good article and I suggest anyone at all interested in the fubar going on at Boeing right now read all of it. They have issues with their 787 Dreamliner as well under criminal investigation. The TLDR here tho is that Boeing in another example of questionable cost cutting, outsourced software engineering code writing to inexperienced and under-qualified Indian firms where workers made only 9 bucks an hour, in exchange for India placing large orders for their planes
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