Part availability business process
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorRajit Jain
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Abstract
A system and method for identifying and ordering parts and monitoring inventory levels is presented. The method includes the steps of capturing identifying information from the part, identify the part from the identifying information and ordering the part from a portable device. Additional steps are having a central computer monitor inventory levels, track part request, and order replacement parts when inventory levels fall below a preset level. A system for implementing the method outlined above comprising portable devices and central computers equipped with the proper software and databases to identify the part and allow personnel to request replacements from inventory as well as monitor inventory levels and directly order replacement inventory should inventory levels fall below a preset level.
Claims20
A method for determining component availability comprising the steps of:
- a. transmitting component identification data to a central computer from at least one portable device;
- b. identifying the component from said component identification data;
- c. searching at least one database stored on a central computer to ascertain component availability data;
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- d. transmitting said component availability data from said central computer to said at least one portable device.
A method for determining availability of an aircraft component comprising the steps of:
- a. selecting identification data representative of the aircraft component from a portable device wherein said identification data is an image;
- b. searching a database stored on said portable device to ascertain aircraft component availability information;
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- c. relaying said aircraft component availability information to a user.
A system for determining aircraft component availability comprising:
- a. at least one portable device operatively configured to collect component identification data;
- b. at least one database containing component availability data;
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- c. a central computer, wherein said at least one portable device transmits said collected component identification data to said central computer for searching said at least one database, and wherein said central computer transmits component availability data to said at least one portable device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.