The Boeing Company

Wallace C O'Rear

Sharon Filipowski Arroyo

Jonathan Fulton

Gabriel Burnett

Benjamin J Brelje

Shabnam Zangeneh-Khamooshi

Jack Zinn Byers

Bianca Lui-Sargent

Shabnam Khamooshi

Sean Francis Harrington

Heather Noel Siflinger

Systems and methods for determining an aircraft flightline delivery schedule are disclosed. In one embodiment a method includes receiving a set of milestones for delivery of the plurality of aircraft, receiving a set of costs for set of milestones, receiving a set of scheduling constraints, generating a network flow chart for each aircraft in the plurality of aircraft, the network flow chart having an order of milestones for delivery of the aircraft, determining a cost of delivery for each aircraft in the plurality of aircraft based on the network flow chart and the set of costs for the milestones, determining the aircraft flight line delivery schedule for delivery of the plurality of aircraft based on reducing a total cost for delivery of the plurality of aircraft, and outputting the determined aircraft flight line delivery schedule.

Flight line delivery scheduling systems and methods

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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Charleston, SC, United States of America

Wallace C O'Rear