US 12,367,324 B2
Optimization of cross-sectional profile shapes for manufacture of structural parts
Eric S Lester, Jr., Edmonds, WA (US); Vivek Mohan, Everett, WA (US); Venkata Narasimha Ravi Udali, Bothell, WA (US); Shobhit Rastogi, Bothell, WA (US); John Gilotti, Bothell, WA (US); and John Henry Moselage, III, Granite Falls, WA (US)
Assigned to The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US)
Filed by The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US)
Filed on Jul. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/377,084.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/073,729, filed on Sep. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0067223 A1, Mar. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 30/10 (2020.01); G06F 16/953 (2019.01); G06N 5/04 (2023.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06Q 10/087 (2023.01)
CPC G06F 30/10 (2020.01) [G06F 16/953 (2019.01); G06N 5/04 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of manufacture of a structural part, the method comprising:
accessing memory storing computer-readable program code for a software tool to determine a template profile for the structural part; and
executing the computer-readable program code, via processing circuitry configured to access the memory, to cause an apparatus to execute the software tool for at least:
accessing a three-dimensional (3D) model of the structural part;
generating a profile from the 3D model in a two-dimensional (2D) plane,
wherein generating the profile including dimensioning the profile with dimension measurements;
accessing a manufacturing database of stock profiles with corresponding dimension measurements and respective attributes;
searching the manufacturing database for the stock profiles that match search criteria and that are thereby matching stock profiles,
wherein the search criteria including the dimension measurements of the profile as lower bounds of the corresponding dimension measurements;
performing a multiple-criteria decision analysis to evaluate the respective attributes of the matching stock profiles based on multiple selection criteria, and identifying a selected stock profile from the matching stock profiles based on the evaluation,
wherein performing the multiple-criteria decision analysis includes determining an order of priority of the matching stock profiles based on the evaluation; and
manufacturing the structural part from a stock structural part associated with an indication of the selected stock profile, the selected stock profile having a cross sectional profile that corresponds to the selected stock profile from the 3D model in the 2D plane,
wherein producing the selected stock profile includes an indication of a subset of the matching stock profiles including the selected stock profile that are higher in the order of priority.