The Boeing Company

Monica Tatar

Jeffrey H Hunt

Branko Lakic

Nicholas A Norman

Christopher A Greer

Sidlaghatta N Venkatesh

Christopher Michael Rhoads

Kevin G Sweeney

A manufacturing system includes a holding structure and actuators that are coupled to the holding structure. The actuators support the component and apply displacements to select locations of the component to change a current shape of the component toward a target shape of the component. The system includes a metrology system that takes measurements of the current shape of the component. The system includes a controller that utilizes a closed feedback loop to determine a deviation between the current shape and the target shape based on the measurements and to provide commands that iteratively change the displacements in response to changes in the current shape until the current shape is within a tolerance of the target shape.

Manufacturing systems and methods for shaping and assembling flexible structures

Fabricating a component is accomplished by operating a metrology system to obtain physical characteristics for an environment in which the component is to be installed. The physical characteristics for the environment are then transferred to a computer numerical control (CNC) machine and the component is fabricated to be compatible with the physical characteristics of the environment using the CNC machine.

Advanced remote match drilling process

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Bothell, WA, United States of America

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