The Boeing Company

Rebecca Shore

William Phillip Coop

Swanee Yourkowski

Kevin Yong Ung

Lois Hill

Robert L Avery

Arun Ayyagari

Winfeng Li

Rocke Robert Koreis

Thanh Duc Hoang

Tommy T Nguyen

Jose R Elias

Christopher B Kettering

Paul F Seeger

Edwin Keith Riner

James Don Knox

Yucheng Zheng

David W Allen

David Scott Kinney

Michael J Buckley

Steve Kopecki

Ronald Meir Sonntag

William Coop

Robert Avery

An aircraft safety and configuration monitoring system includes a plurality of RFID equipped items, a plurality of RFID interrogators communicating with the plurality of RFID equipped items, a processor communicating with the plurality of RFID interrogators and adapted to determine an issue with respect to any of the plurality of RFID equipped items and an indicating mechanism communicating with the processor and adapted to indicate the issue.

Aircraft safety and configuration monitoring system and method

Method and apparatus for managing equipment on an aircraft. An apparatus comprises an interrogator, a display system, and a processor unit. The interrogator is configured to read information from a set of wireless tags associated with a set of equipment in an aircraft. The processor unit is configured to identify the set of equipment from the information read from the set of wireless tags by the interrogator. The processor unit is further configured to display a layout of an interior of the aircraft on the display system. The processor unit is further configured to display a number of graphical indicators for the set of equipment on the layout in a number of locations on the layout corresponding to a number of locations of where the set of equipment is located in the interior of the aircraft.

Aircraft equipment management system

A method and apparatus for maintaining a component on a vehicle. Component maintenance information is read from an automated identification technology tag on the vehicle, wherein the automated identification technology tag is associated with an interior component on the vehicle. A remaining portion of a maintenance period for the interior component is determined using the component maintenance information. An indication of the remaining portion of the maintenance period is displayed on a user interface.

Aircraft interior component maintenance

A method and apparatus for reworking a component on a vehicle. An inconsistency on the component is identified. The component is reworked to remove the inconsistency. Component rework information is stored on an automated identification technology tag attached to the vehicle. The component rework information comprises information describing the reworking of the component to remove the inconsistency.

Aircraft rework management

A method and apparatus for managing identification devices on an aircraft. An occurrence of an event is identified using information for a plurality of identification devices. Each of the plurality of identification devices is associated with a plurality of components on the aircraft. The information for the plurality of identification devices comprises data received from the plurality of identification devices and specification data for the plurality of identification devices. In response to identifying the occurrence of the event, a number of operations for the plurality of identification devices are initiated.

Managing a plurality of radio frequency identification devices

A data archiving system includes an archiving label including a label tag and a memory device carried by the label tag and a reading device adapted to retrieve repair information from the memory device.

Onboard data archiving system and method

A formable RFID tag includes a tag inlay including a composite polymer material having a pliant and flexible pre-cured state and a hardened cured state, non-rigid RFID circuitry embedded in the tag inlay and a non-rigid RFID antenna embedded in the tag inlay and interfacing with the RFID circuitry.

Formable RFID tag

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