RENTON, Wash.—Boeing Co. has, for the moment, sidestepped one particular supply chain snag that curbed 737 MAX output and deliveries last month, and is working to stabilize production at its targeted monthly rate, an executive said on Wednesday.
“We’ve been ramping up to 31 a month,” Dennis Eng, 737 Program Business Operations Director, told reporters during a tour of Boeing’s single-aisle factory south of Seattle. “I think we hopefully expect to get there later on this year.”
“Really it depends on making sure that we’ve got the right number of trained personnel and the parts available on time,” Eng said. “For what we’ve got in the factory right now, we have the parts that we need.”…