Mar 6 2012
Four operators working on a fuselage section
This is a section of a photograph published in the UK’s Guardian on 12/20/2011, showing four operators at work on an aircraft fuselage section.
When you examine the picture, how many do you see actually engaged in modifying the work piece?
March 6, 2012 @ 9:13 pm
I actually think their might be 5. There looks to be a foot off of the left shoulder of the guy sitting and watching the other worker. It appears that this foot may be from a guy lying down and working? If so his ergonomic position is even worse than the guys squatting on floor to the right.
So 1 out of 5 possibly 2 out of 5 modifying the plane. Maybe the two guys standing are doing a work sampling study!
A couple of other observations:
1. The tool boxes located clear at the back of the room – far from POU.
2. Unless the fuselage is mounted sideways on a carrier – this is a “bench assembly” process – no assembly line here. Interesting because Boeing pulls some of the largest fuselages in the world on an assembly line at Everett now.