Patent ID: 11866200
Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A method for fabricating a fuselage of an aircraft, the method comprising:
disposing arcuate sections of fuselage at a track of a factory such that concavities of the arcuate sections of the fuselage face a floor of the factory, and bearing edges of the arcuate sections of fuselage directly contact the track;
advancing the arcuate sections of fuselage synchronously along the track in a process direction;
performing work within concavities of the arcuate sections of fuselage during pauses between pulses of the arcuate sections of fuselage via stations that are disposed beneath the concavities and that are directly mounted to the floor of the factory; and
operating a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) scanner to identify a flow of materials provided Just In Time (JIT) to the stations that performs the work on the arcuate sections.