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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2014
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Stephen Michael Young, Mill Creek, WA (US);
Carl Aaron Davison, Snohomish, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A system and method for managing a desired part. A manufacturing system comprises a product lifecycle management tool configured to retrieve from a database based on a number of search parameters. The product lifecycle management tool is further configured to define, for each of retrieved part models, a prism having a volume that contains a volume of a part corresponding to the each of the retrieved part models. The product lifecycle management tool is further configured to display on a display system an assembly model including a three-dimensional view of candidate parts using the retrieved part models arranged in positions relative to each other. The candidate parts in the three-dimensional view are displayed in a side-by-side configuration in an order based on a number of characteristics of each prism such that a part model that most closely matches the desired part may be identified and selected for reuse.