Patent ID: 9707645
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: B23B,B23H,B23K,B23P,B26F,G05B,Y10T

Claim:
1. A method to locate and drill a gas turbine component, the method comprising: receiving position data associated with one or more holes in a gas turbine component; receiving predefined hole position data from manufacturing data associated with the gas turbine component; determining at least one missing hole, based at least in part on the received position data and the predefined hole position data, wherein determining the at least one missing hole comprises: (i) determining an angle between consecutive holes with respect to an origin point on the gas turbine component, and (ii) determining the at least one missing hole if the angle between the one or more holes with respect to the origin point is greater than the angle between the consecutive holes; and drilling at least one hole in the gas turbine component corresponding to the determined at least one missing hole.