Boeing Everett Factory, the largest building on earth
The Boeing Everett Factory, in Everett, Washington, is an airplane assembly building owned by Boeing. Located on the northeast corner of Paine Field, it is the largest building in the world by volume at 13,385,378 m3 (472,370,319 cu ft) and covers 399,480 m2 (98.7 acres). This is the factory where the wide-body Boeing 747, 767, 777, and 787 are assembled.
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Boeing Officially Starts 777X Production.
The Boeing Co. started assembly of its new wide-bodied jet, the 777X, on Monday afternoon with lofty rhetoric and a showcase of state-of-the art equipment.
It began shortly after 1 p.m. as a machine drilled the first hole in one of the spars — beams that make up the front and rear edges of the wings — for the first jet of its kind. In a separate building on the periphery of Paine Field, a machine built by Mukilteo-based Electroimpact created a spar for another wing with strips of carbon fiber.
“It’s going to set a new bar for commercial travel,” Jason Clark, vice president of 777/777X operations, told a couple of hundred employees and journalists gathered on the factory floor.
“We’re pushing the boundaries to where they’ve never been before.”
Aluminum fuselage sections are under construction in Japan. By sometime next year, the first 777X should come together in Everett.
Test flights are expected in 2019, with delivery to commercial airlines in 2020.
So far, 340 orders have been placed for the plane. On Monday, Singapore Airlines signed a previously announced deal that includes 20 of the new jets.
The program is on track to meet its timelines, said Terry Beezhold, 777X chief project engineer.
Like the 787, the wings are made of composite material.
“The wing you see is really a scaled-up version of the 787 wing,” Beezhold said.
Unlike the 787’s composite fuselage, the new 777’s body, like the present 777, will be aluminum.
Various 777X models will seat from about 350 to more than 400 passengers, with many interior design cues from the 787.
The aircraft will be powered by supersize turbofan engines developed by GE.
Boeing executives on Monday acknowledged increased use of automated production techniques for the 777x. They said robots are a move toward better safety and smarter ergonomics, rather than a way to shed human labor.
“We’ve used robots in areas where there is personal safety risk or repetitive motion risk,” Beezhold said.
Boeing agreed to build the 777X in Everett after securing concessions from union machinists and state tax breaks that are expected to save the company an estimated $8.7 billion over several years.
Documents that Boeing sent to various states in 2013, while the company was deciding where to build the 777X, said about 3,250 employees were expected to work on the program in 2018. That number was projected to rise to 8,500 in 2024, then decline slightly.
Boeing employed more than 66,000 people in Washington as of September, with a global workforce of more 140,000.
The company broke ground on the composite wing center in October 2014, after tearing down several office buildings from the 1960s. The billion-dollar wing building houses one autoclave, which works like a giant pressure oven to cook and harden carbon-fiber. There is space to add two more.
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