The Boeing Company

Karl Loren Johnson

Marc Rollo Matsen

David B Blackwell

Arun Ayyagari

Everett A Westerman

Kevin Yong Ung

Jai Joon Choi

Ali Salour

William Phillip Coop

Bruce S Howard

Laurance N Hazlehurst

Stephen John Bennison

Sidney Ly

Gary D Koval

Gaylen Kenneth Cardwell

Donald Lee Murray

Mahesh G Seetharamu

Rajesh Doda

Anh-Thu N Thai

Chen-En Chen

Brian K Ramberg

Gloria J Nickson

William P Coop

A tool within a manufacturing environment is located using a macro position locator to form an approximate location. A refined location is identified using the approximate location, a retro reflective target attached to the tool, and a laser tracking system.

Hybrid position locating system in a manufacturing environment

An alert system may include an alert sender module, an alert routing module, an alert controller module, and an alert mechanism. The alert sender module may be configured to send an encrypted alert independent of an internet security firewall. The alert routing module may have a registry and may be configured to receive the encrypted alert and process the encrypted alert according to a security mechanism associated with the registry. The alert controller module may be configured to accept the encrypted alert from the alert routing module according to the security mechanism. The alert mechanism may be configured to be activated by the alert controller module.

System and method for transmitting an alert

A system for data synchronization of intermittently connected sensors may include an RFID system and an information management system. The system may also include an application to insure integrity of data retrieved or posted between the RFID system and the information management system.

Data synchronization and integrity for intermittently connected sensors

Systems and methods for configuration management in an article of manufacture disclosed. In one embodiment, a system for documenting a configuration of an article of manufacture includes an identifier positioned on the article of manufacture. A local positioning system is used to determine a positional location of the identifier on the article of manufacture. A multifunction apparatus configured to interactively communicate with the identifier and the local positioning system is present that is operable to communicate configuration information to the identifier.

Systems and methods for configuration management

A mobile radio frequency identification (RFID) system is described that includes a wheeled cart, a RFID reader mounted to the wheeled cart, a computer mounted to the wheeled cart and communicatively coupled to the RFID reader, and a directional antenna capable of being communicatively coupled to the RFID reader and movably mounted to the wheeled cart. The system also includes at least one omni-directional antenna mounted to the wheeled cart and capable of being communicatively coupled to the RFID reader. The computer is configured to process data received from the RFID tags and further configured to allow a user to selectively couple one or both of the at least one omni-directional antenna and the directional antenna to the RFID reader.

Mobile radio frequency identification reader

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

Karl Loren Johnson