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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2012
Sean M. Callahan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Carl A. Pearson, Kirkland, WA (US);
John Terry Monahan, Seattle, WA (US);
Sean M. Callahan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Carl A. Pearson, Kirkland, WA (US);
John Terry Monahan, Seattle, WA (US);
THE BOEING COMPANY, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for managing variations in a product structure for a product comprising a data manager and a visualizer. The data manager is configured to manage variations in the product structure using a model. The model includes a group of master objects having a primary hierarchical organization and a group of configuration objects having a number of secondary hierarchical organizations. Each secondary hierarchical organization in the number of secondary hierarchical organizations is associated with the primary hierarchical organization and configured to represent a variant of the product. A number of configuration objects in a secondary hierarchical organization represents a number of variations in the product structure for the product. The visualizer is configured to visually present, in a graphical user interface, information for an object selected from one of a master object in the group of master objects and a configuration object in the group of configuration objects.