Manufacturing controller for aircraft

A manufacturing controller for an aircraft comprising:

• a data storage device configured to store an assembly task network including assembly tasks for assembling components in the aircraft, wherein the assembly task network is a data structure that defines dependencies between assembly tasks;
• a manufacturing assembly monitor configured to receive task data in real time and update the assembly task network with the task data, wherein the task data includes a state of assembly of the components for a product being manufactured;
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• an assembly task network analyzer configured to search the assembly task network for the assembly tasks and calculate a probability of a group of downstream delays as a function of the state of assembly of the components for the product being manufactured identified from a state of the assembly tasks;
• and identify a milestone in danger of being delayed based on the state of a cluster of the assembly tasks for the milestone, enabling modifying incomplete assembly tasks for the product that reduce the group of downstream delays.