How does The Boeing Company approach standardization?
Boeing has long recognized standardization as a key element of its business strategies and standards as essential tools. Our corporate policy was specifically established to “promote standardization of our products, processes, systems and information, enabling the best use of our company assets, allowing a flexible distribution of work and maximizing customer value.” The policy continues, “To this end, Boeing will employ companywide standards, including industry standards.” To be involved in standards at Boeing is to work to capture and communicate the technical knowledge needed to produce exceptional aerospace products. For our standards professionals this means: • Providing an infrastructure to coordinate and establish a single set of Boeing standards requirements; • Ensuring a link between our standards activities and our technology and business strategies; • Ensuring that our technical requirements are met by the standards we help to develop; Leveraging the technical knowledge and
