Methods and systems for selecting and pre-feeding fasteners into automated drilling machines using repeatability rating

A manufacturing system comprising:

• a manufacturing data center, comprising:
• a historical data store, configured to receive and store a historical manufacturing data from an automated drilling machine, the historical manufacturing data comprising hole identifications and fastener grip lengths, each of the fastener grip lengths previously selected for a corresponding one of the hole identifications;
• at least one processor configured to determine, from the historical manufacturing data and for each of the hole identifications, a specific grip length of the fastener grip lengths and a fastener repeatability rating, corresponding to the specific grip length, wherein the fastener repeatability rating for each of the hole identifications relates to the number of times the corresponding grip length was used in the historical manufacturing data;
• and
• an operating data store, configured to store the specific grip length and the fastener repeatability rating for each of the hole identifications,
• wherein the processor is further configured to receive holes locations, each corresponding to one of the hole identifications, and to cause, for each of the hole locations, the specific grip length to be pre-fed into the automated drilling machine when the fastener repeatability rating, corresponding to the specific grip length, exceeds an operating threshold.