Bracketing brackets with bras and kets

Abstract Brackets are an essential component in aircraft manufacture and design, joining parts together, supporting weight, holding wires, strengthening joints. Hundreds or thousands of unique brackets used every aircraft, but manufacturing a large number distinct is inefficient expensive. Fortunately, many so-called “different” fact very similar even identical to each other. In this manuscript, we present data-driven framework for constructing comparatively small group representative from catalog current brackets, based on hierarchical clustering bracket data. We find that modern commercial the full set can be reduced by 30% while still describing half test sufficiently accurately. This approach designing inner product quantifies multi-objective similarity between two which “bra” “ket” product. Although demonstrate algorithm reduce aerospace manufacturing, it may generally applied other large-scale standardization efforts.