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A manufacturing system and manufacturing method for adjusting the performance of manufacturing operations or steps in manufacturing components having three-dimensional external structural characteristics. An embodiment of the system broadly comprises: (a) a plurality of manufacturing operations for

A manufacturing system and manufacturing method for adjusting the performance of manufacturing operations or steps in manufacturing components having three-dimensional external structural characteristics. An embodiment of the system broadly comprises: (a) a plurality of manufacturing operations for processing a component having three-dimensional external structural characteristics; (b) at least one analytical device for analyzing at least one characteristic of the component after the performance of one or more manufacturing operations to generate a component data set; (c) at least one data storage device for storing the generated component data sets and for providing at least a relevant portion of accumulated component data; and (d) a communication mechanism for transmitting at least a relevant portion of accumulated component data to one or more manufacturing operations so that the performance thereof can be adjusted in response to the transmitted portion of accumulated component data. An embodiment of the method broadly comprises the following steps: (a) providing a component having three-dimensional external structural characteristics; (b) providing at least a relevant portion of accumulated component data comprising at least two different component data sets; and (c) performing a manufacturing step on the component to provide a processed component, wherein the at least relevant portion of accumulated component data is used to adjust the manner in which the manufacturing step is performed.

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What is claimed is: 1. A manufacturing method comprising the following steps: (a) providing a component form and a component form data set comprising data for the component form for obtaining a processed component having three-dimensional internal structural characteristics; (b) providing at least

What is claimed is: 1. A manufacturing method comprising the following steps: (a) providing a component form and a component form data set comprising data for the component form for obtaining a processed component having three-dimensional internal structural characteristics; (b) providing at least a relevant portion of the component form data set (c) performing a first manufacturing step on the component form to provide a processed component, wherein the at least relevant portion of the component form data set is used to adjust the manner in which the first manufacturing step is performed; (d) analyzing the processed component to provide a processed component data set (e) combining the component form data set with the processed component data set to provide accumulated component data (f) performing a second manufacturing step on the processed component, wherein at least a relevant portion of accumulated component data is used to adjust the manner in which the second manufacturing step is performed; and (g) repeating steps (d) through (f) after step (f) one or more times until a final manufactured component is obtained, wherein the component form provided in step (a) is a turbine component form that includes internal three-dimensional structural characteristics and is a cast airfoil form comprising an airfoil having one or more internal cooling passages and a blank root portion extending from the airfoil, and wherein step (c) comprises forming a dovetail in the blank root portion to provide a dovetail-containing turbine component, wherein step (f) comprises drilling holes in the airfoil of the dovetail-containing turbine component of step (c) to connect the drilled holes to the one or more internal cooling passages to provide a drilled turbine component, and wherein step (g) is repeated so as to carryout the additional manufacturing step (h) which comprises applying a protective coating to one or more of the external surface of the airfoil and the internal surface of the airfoil of the drilled turbine component of step (g). 2. The method of claim 1 wherein step (g) is repeated so as to carryout the additional manufacturing step (i) which comprises evaluating prior to step (h) the in process airflow of the drilled turbine component of step (g). 3. The method of claim 1 wherein step (c) is carried out by grinding the dovetail in the blank root portion. 4. The method of claim 1 wherein step (f) is carried out by laser drilling.