The Boeing Company

Shabnam Zangeneh-Khamooshi

Amir Afrasiabi

Hieu Tat Nguyen

Gabriel Burnett

Jonathan Fulton

Ashutosh Mani

Benjamin J Brelje

Wallace C O'Rear

Jack Zinn Byers

Bianca Lui-Sargent

Sean Francis Harrington

Heather Noel Siflinger

According to various embodiments, a technique for automated aircraft paint application quality inspection is presented. The technique includes retrieving from electronic persistent storage a control image depicting at least a portion of aircraft paint application for the aircraft under quality inspection; capturing a process image depicting at least a portion of aircraft paint application on the aircraft under quality inspection; detecting a plurality of features in the control image and the process image; registering the control image with the process image; detecting at least one difference between the control image and the process image; generating an output image, where the output image includes a depiction of the aircraft under quality inspection with the at least one difference annotated; and causing the output image to be displayed.

Automated paint quality control for aircraft

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

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Everett, WA, United States of America

Shabnam Zangeneh-Khamooshi