Patent ID: 11926435
Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 41:
42. A method for fabricating a structure for an aircraft, the method comprising:
micro pulsing a series of structures along a track by iteratively advancing the series of structures and pausing the series of structures;
indexing the series of structures to an array of work stations by mating indexing features in a manufacturing excess of the series of structures to complementary indexing features at the array of work stations, wherein each indexing feature is capable of physically coupling with each complementary indexing feature;
performing work on the series of structures via the array of work stations during a plurality of pauses between micro pulses;
identifying a scheduled micro pulse; and
performing a break during the scheduled micro pulse wherein work is halted on at least one of the work stations of the array of work stations.