The Boeing Company

Gabriel Burnett

Yuanxin Charles Hu

Bill V Vogt

Katherine S Vogt

Donald K Stull

William David Kelsey

Amir Afrasiabi

Jonathan Fulton

Rosemary D Pham

Benjamin J Brelje

Shabnam Zangeneh-Khamooshi

Wallace C O'Rear

Sean Francis Harrington

Chandler Chockalingam

Heather Noel Siflinger

Jack Zinn Byers

Bianca Lui-Sargent

Jacob Pete McHenry

Rosemary Pham

Jacob Pete Mchenry

A method and apparatus is provided to inspect coverage of a coating applied to a surface of a component. A coating color space value of a color of the coating is obtained based on a camera, a light source, and the surface, each value having an associated coating thickness applied to the surface. Images of the coating covered surface are obtained. Each image is processed by determining color space values of the image, determining whether the associated coating thickness of the color space values is within a specified tolerance of a required thickness of coating based on a comparison of the color space values to color space values associated with the required thickness of coating, and responsive to the associated thickness of coating of the color space values being outside of the specified tolerance, providing an indication that the surface shown in the image is outside of the specified tolerance.

Method and apparatus for coating thickness inspection of a surface and coating defects of the surface

A method and apparatus for monitoring manufacturing of a product. An assembly task network for assembly tasks for assembling is searched by a computer system. The assembly task network defines dependencies between the assembly tasks. A probability of a group of downstream delays as a function of a state of assembly of components for the product being manufactured is calculated using a state of the assembly tasks, enabling modifying incomplete assembly tasks for the product that reduce the group of downstream delays.

Manufacturing controller for aircraft

Methods and means for reconfiguring an aircraft assembly plant that receives fuselages or fuselage sections via a public railroad system. In cases where the aircraft assembly plant comprises a first assembly line for installing (i.e., stuffing) equipment inside fuselages or fuselage sections and a second assembly line for installing equipment on exteriors of internally equipped fuselages or fuselage sections, both assembly lines being housed in the same building, the facility can be reconfigured by moving at least one fuselage stuffing operation of the first assembly line to an auxiliary building which overlies a railroad track connected to the public railroad system. The moved fuselage stuffing operations will be performed inside the auxiliary building while each fuselage or fuselage section is supported in an upright position on a respective railroad flat car.

Fuselage stuffing building and feeder lines

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Newcastle, WA, United States of America

Gabriel Burnett