The Boeing Company

Roger Erh Hsiang Chen

Jeffrey Lawrence Miller

Michael Yee-Chih Wang

Jonas Beuchert

Systems and methods are provided for facilitating fabrication of a composite part. An illustrative method includes loading a Numerical Control (NC) program that directs layup of tows by a fiber placement machine to create a laminate for curing into a composite part, identifying tow information recited in the NC program, applying inputs based on the tow information to a neural network that has been trained with measurements describing tow placement within other laminates that have been laid-up, and reporting likelihood of a fabrication discrepancy that is out of tolerance, based on an output of the neural network.

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Woodinville, WA, United States of America

Roger Erh Hsiang Chen