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System and method for manufacturing and after-market support using as-built data

  • US 7,725,206 B2
  • Filed: 11/12/2003
  • Issued: 05/25/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for manufacturing an assembly, comprising:

  • (a) a metrology device for measuring the location of at least one characteristic of a statistically significant part or plurality of parts of an as-built assembly relative to a parametric reference point of the as-built assembly during manufacture and creating parametric coordinate data regarding said location in-real time;

    (b) a computer-readable storage medium storing a first theoretical computer-aided design model for said part or plurality of parts; and

    (c) a computer-aided design system coupled to said metrology device and said compute readable storage medium using a communications link, wherein said computer-aided design system;

    obtains said parametric coordinate data from said metrology device representative of the location of the characteristic relative to the parametric reference point;

    creates an as-built computer-aided design model in synchronized real-time reflecting the parametric coordinate data of the as-built assembly; and

    imports data associated with said first theoretical computer-aided design model into the as-built computer-aided design model.

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