Company Watch - Boeing.Boeing is set to stop making its wide-bodied 767 next year, as the company admitted a loss of orders from the US military had hit viability. The production line at Everett in Seattle looks set to cease as orders from commercial operators dry up. The aircraft manufacturer said a decision on assembly of the 767 could be made later this year. http://www.boeing.com Mar 5, 2006 Boeing starts shift to moving assembly line. Boeing is introducing the first phase of its moving assembly line for the 777. Boeing believes shifting to the moving assembly line, modeled on the Toyota production system The Toyota Production System (TPS) is the philosophy which organizes manufacturing and logistics at Toyota, including the interaction with suppliers and customers. The TPS is a major part of the more generic "Lean manufacturing". , will make production more efficient. Mar 3, 2006 Boeing names team to develop new jetliner. Boeing has created a planning team to develop the successor to the popular 737. Boeing executives have said the new plane will start flying between 2012 and 2015. Mar 2, 2006 Boeing delivered the first 777-200LR to Pakistan International Airlines Pakistan International Airlines Corporation, more commonly known as Pakistan International Airlines or PIA (Urdu: پی آئی اے يا پاکستان over the weekend. The aircraft, which flew from Everett to Karachi via Manchester, will begin operating nonstop HP's brand name for its fault-tolerant servers, which range in size from four CPUs to 4,000 CPUs. The NonStop line was created by Tandem Computers, which was acquired by Compaq, which later became part of HP. Karachi-Toronto services March 3. PIA pi·a n. The pia mater. pi  al adj. will take a second dash 200LR in late March. Feb 28, 2006 Boeing's 737 passenger plane, which has seen deliveries top 5,000 since it entered service 38 years ago, has always been touted by its U.S. makers as the world's most popular commercial jet. But lately, the plane has been losing business to European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. rival Airbus' A320, the 737's direct competitor in terms of size, range and listed price. Both single-aisle planes are designed to fly a short-to-medium range and seat a maximum of about 200. Last year, Toulouse Toulouse (t  lz`), city (1990 pop. 365,933), capital of Haute-Garonne dept., S France, on the Garonne River. , France-based Airbus had a 62 percent market share of the single-aisle plane market with 918 orders for the A320. The 737 had 569 orders. Feb 27, 2006
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