Boeing is expecting to increase factory output later this year as recent efforts to improve supply chain and production quality bear fruit, a Boeing senior vice president told an industry conference on Tuesday, according to a Bloomberg report.

In remarks at the Pacific Northwest Aerospace Alliance conference near Seattle, Ihssane Mounir said Boeing is seeing significant changes in terms of quality, since the door plug incident on a Boeing 737-Max in January 2024 that resulted in investigations and an aggressive quality initiative at the company and at Spirit AeroSystems (SPR), which builds fuselages used by Boeing.

Boeing also has been working to create close relationships with other suppliers, as well as dispatching "armies" of inspectors at all levels of production, Mounir reportedly said.

Boeing is looking to increase 737 production above the current 38-jets-per-month limit by mid-year, according to the report.

Boeing did not immediately return a message from MT Newswires seeking additional information.

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