Jeremy Chen’s blog -The sky is the limit provides a detailed and strong background about recent aviation industry, which suggests the increasing forecast demand of Boeing and Airbus, two biggest plane producers, results higher pressure on supply chain manufacturers to keep up the producing pace while maintain a high quality. Operation could help to build a specialised and efficient supply chain structure to maintain steady profitable growth.

Although Jeremy Chen provides a clear paragraph to summarise the fundamental idea of the article from The Economist, he does not provide his own opinions about the topic he chose. One of my suggestions is that he could refer to the other provided link under his blog to analysis how the manufacture supply chain can improve production efficiency while maintaining a high quality.  According to the article “Freudenberg Gives Airbus 1350 XWB a Lift” , Freudenberg’s new NOK Sealing Technologies provide A350 XWB aircraft a mechanical high-lift system for more efficient take-off  and landing, which would shorter the distance and time before and after air travel.  In this way, a more commercial aircraft model is built and supplied to Airbus company to fit in higher demand with less time-consuming products. Besides, this new technology of elastomeric and PTFE can make aircraft last for longer time period with less cost on maintaining and replacing.

Jeremy Chen’s blog link: https://blogs.ubc.ca/jdchan/2014/10/04/the-sky-is-the-limit/

Reference: http://www.freudenberg.com/en/Press/Pressereleases/Pages/Auftrieb-für-den-Airbus-A350.aspx