Managing the manufacturing lifecycle of fasteners of a product

摘要

A system is provided that is configured to receive a manufacturing process plan for a product including a plurality of component parts joined by fasteners, with the manufacturing process plan including process definitions that describe process operations in which component parts are worked to manufacture of the product. The system is configured to generate graphical views for respective process operations of the manufacturing process plan in which fastener locations are worked for installation of respective fasteners to join component parts of the product, and output the graphical views. The graphical view of a process operation may graphically depict one or more component parts and only those of the fastener locations on the one or more component parts worked during the process operation, with any others of the fastener locations on the same or other component parts being hidden from the graphical view.

主权项

1. An apparatus comprising a processor and a computer-readable storage medium storing executable instructions that, in response to execution by the processor, cause the apparatus to implement at least:
an input module configured to receive a manufacturing process plan for a product including a plurality of component parts joined by fasteners, the manufacturing process plan including a plurality of process definitions that describe a plurality of process operations in which component parts are worked to manufacture of the product; a view generator configured to generate a plurality of graphical views for respective ones of the plurality of process operations of the manufacturing process plan in which fastener locations are worked for installation of respective fasteners to join component parts of the product, the graphical view of a process operation graphically depicting one or more component parts and only those of the fastener locations on the one or more component parts worked during the process operation, any others of the fastener locations on the same or other component parts being hidden from the graphical view; and an output module configured to output the plurality of graphical views, wherein the manufacturing process plan further identifies locations on a factory floor where the plurality of process operations are to be performed, and wherein the graphical view of a process operation generated by the view generator further includes the process definition of the process operation and identifies the location on the factory floor where the process operation is to be performed.