Re: Boeing Tech Pubs going offshore? (long)

["Bruce Wolf" <bwolf -at- scheidt-bachmann-usa -dot- com>]

This post should receive:

Post of the week honors

Post of the month honors

and a

Post of the Year nomination.

BW

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Lippincott" <richard -dot- lippincott -at- ae -dot- ge -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:31 AM
Subject: RE: Boeing Tech Pubs going offshore? (long)


>
> Sorry this is a bit long. I'm consolidating some questions and answers, I
> didn't see this when it first came up on Friday. I can offer some
> non-hypothetical answers to questions asked here. Although I work for
> Lockheed Martin, our office (about ten tech writers) is under contract to
> write maintenance manuals for GE Aircraft Engines.
>
> The original article said:
>
> "Boeing is using General Electric as a model for outsourcing of its
> technical publishing. GE partners with Adexus, a publishing company based
in
> Santiago, Chile."
> This is absolutely true. GE is transitioning a number of commercial engine
> maintenance manuals to Adexus this year. It will cause the loss of a
number
> of tech writing jobs here in the US.

SNIP


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