US 10,832,182 B2Granted

Method and system for managing a program relating to a product

AssigneeThe Boeing Company

InventorsJoseph F Floyd, Brent Louis Hadley, Patrick Jan Eames, Paul A Sesny, Quentin S Patterson, Stephen Paul Miller, Brian Lee Coker, Chul Y Park, Michael W Boyd

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Abstract

A method for managing a program relating to a product, the program including a plurality of program requirements for performing a plurality of program tasks, includes: (a) establishing a location reference system for a representation of the product in three dimensions; (b) identifying a plurality of task-loci in a display; the display presenting the representation of the product according to the location reference system; each respective task-locus of the plurality of task-loci being associated with a respective program task of the plurality of program tasks; (c) characterizing each respective task-locus associated with an accomplished respective program task as a respective completed task-locus; and (d) accounting for accomplishment of the respective program tasks by accounting for the respective completed task-loci.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method for managing a maintenance program relating to an aircraft, said program including a plurality of maintenance tasks to be performed with respect to a physical location in at least one aircraft, said method performed by a compliance management computer comprising at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device, said method comprising:

(a) storing, in a database, a plurality of maintenance requirements and a plurality of maintenance actions for the at least one aircraft, wherein each of the plurality of maintenance requirements and the plurality of maintenance actions are associated with a physical location on the at least one aircraft;
(b) establishing, by the compliance management computer, a three dimensional representation of physical locations in the at least one aircraft;
(c) querying the database to identify a plurality of maintenance task-loci associated with respective maintenance tasks in the three dimensional representation;
(d) instructing, by the compliance management computer, a display device to display a time line selection tool and the three dimensional representation;
(e) receiving, by the compliance management computer, a selection of a time interval from a plurality of time intervals displayed in a time line through the time line selection tool, wherein the selection is made using a time indicator;
(f) filtering, by the compliance management computer, the plurality of tasks to identify a first subset of tasks that must be performed within the selected time interval;
(g) filtering the first subset of tasks based on a proximity to a location to generate a second subset of tasks;
and
(h) using a three dimensional display drive included in the compliance management computer, instructing the display device to display the three dimensional representation of the at least one aircraft, and at least one visual indicator representing each of the second subset of identified tasks, wherein each visual indicator is overlaid on the three dimensional representation at a specific physical location where the respective task is to be performed.

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A system for managing a maintenance program relating to an aircraft, said maintenance program including a plurality of tasks to be performed with respect to a physical location in at least one aircraft, the system comprising a compliance management computer including a three dimensional display drive, said compliance management computer including at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device, said compliance management computer configured to:

(a) store, in a database, a plurality of maintenance requirements and a plurality of maintenance actions for the at least one aircraft, wherein each of the plurality of maintenance requirements and the plurality of maintenance actions are associated with a physical location on the at least one aircraft;
(b) establish a three dimensional representation of physical locations in the at least one aircraft;
(c) query the database to identify a plurality of maintenance task-loci associated with respective maintenance tasks in the three dimensional representation;
(d) instruct a display device to display a time line selection tool and the three dimensional representation;
(e) receive a selection of a time interval from a plurality of time intervals displayed in a time line through the time line selection tool, wherein the selection is made using a time indicator;
(f) filter the plurality of tasks to identify a first subset of tasks that must be performed within the selected time interval;
(g) filter the first subset of tasks based on a proximity to a location to generate a second subset of tasks;
and
(h) using said three dimensional display drive, instruct the display device to display the three dimensional representation of the at least one aircraft and at least one visual indicator representing each of the second subset of identified tasks, wherein each visual indicator is overlaid on the three dimensional representation at a specific physical location where the respective task is to be performed.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/577,710Filed 12 Oct 2009
Published: US 2011/0087513 A114 Apr 2011
Granted: 10 Nov 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification3 codes

G06Q 10/06
Administration; Management: resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation…
G06Q 10/06313
Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations: resource planning in a project environment
G06Q
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial