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Went to the Airbus facility in Mobile last month and saw something odd with their test harnesses
I was down in Mobile, Alabama visiting the Airbus assembly line for a training thing last month. While walking through one of the avionics bays I noticed a bunch of their test harnesses had hand written labels taped on them with electrical tape. Like numbers and letters scratched in with a marker. For a brand new facility that felt super sloppy to me. Our shop at the regional airline I work for uses a proper label maker for everything after one guy hooked up the wrong pin and blew a module. Has anyone else seen production facilities cutting corners like that or is this more common than I thought?
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taylor_fox3mo ago
@mark676's comment about bush league is pretty much where I land on this. Read an article last year about how Boeing's 787 line had to re-certify a bunch of harnesses because of labeling that was basically written in sharpie on masking tape. Seems like a small thing until you're chasing a wire that goes to the wrong actuator.
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