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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2018
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Scott D. Button, Snohomish, WA (US);
Thomas Edward Sherer, Everett, WA (US);
Tek David Kim, Snohomish, WA (US);
THE BOEING COMPANY, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for processing data to replicate lifecycle threads in the development of a structural product. The method includes defining a source lifecycle thread from process-related information for development of the structural product, and defining and matching a target lifecycle thread to the source lifecycle thread. The process, and source and target lifecycle thread are expressible as respectively a network and sub-networks of tasks described by a plurality of attributes. Defining and matching the target lifecycle thread includes selecting a plurality of candidate target tasks from the plurality of tasks; matching a candidate target task to a particular source task using a distance map for an attribute of the plurality of attributes, with the distance map including only unique values of the attribute and distances between the unique values; and back-chaining through the source lifecycle thread to match candidate target tasks with respective source tasks.