Digital Engineering Platform Architecture for Avoided Carbon Quantification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current digital engineering tools face challenges with interoperability, vendor lock-in, specialized skill requirements, and lack of seamless sharing and certification of digitally engineered products.
Innovation Solution
An interconnected digital engineering and certification ecosystem that includes a computing system interfacing with various digital engineering tools, enabling interoperability through APIs and SDKs, and providing a unified user interface for simplified access.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple digital engineering tools are integrated directly with one another, then interoperability between tools is improved, but the complexity and cost of integration increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized digital engineering platform that serves as an intermediary between multiple digital engineering tools. This platform provides standardized APIs and SDKs that enable tools from different vendors to communicate through a common interface, eliminating the need for direct pairwise integration between tools. The platform acts as a mediator that manages data exchange and coordination between tools, thereby reducing integration complexity while maintaining interoperability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal digital engineering platform that can interface with multiple different types of digital engineering tools simultaneously. This platform provides a standardized set of APIs and SDKs that work across different tool vendors and tool types, allowing a single integration point to serve multiple functions and connect to various tools without requiring separate integration efforts for each tool combination.
2Reliability
If physical prototypes are used for certification, then certification accuracy is improved, but carbon emissions and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates digital copies (digital twins) of physical systems that can be used for certification purposes. These digital models replicate the behavior and characteristics of physical prototypes with high fidelity, allowing certification activities to be performed in the virtual environment. This approach maintains certification accuracy while eliminating the need to manufacture and test physical prototypes, thereby reducing carbon emissions and associated costs.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical physical prototyping and testing system with a computational digital simulation system. Instead of building physical prototypes and conducting physical tests, the system uses digital engineering models and simulation engines to perform virtual certification. This substitution eliminates the material and energy consumption associated with physical manufacturing and testing while maintaining or improving certification capability.
3Ease of operation
If specialized training is provided for each digital engineering tool, then tool proficiency is improved, but the time and cost of training increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent provides a universal set of APIs and SDKs through the digital engineering platform that work across multiple different digital engineering tools. Users learn a single standardized interface and programming framework that can be applied to various tools, eliminating the need for separate training programs for each tool. This universal approach maintains tool proficiency while significantly reducing training time and costs.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of training users on each individual tool's proprietary interface, the patent inverts the approach by providing a standardized interface layer above the tools. Users are trained on the universal API/SDK framework, and this knowledge can be applied to control and integrate multiple different tools. This reversal of the traditional training model reduces the overall training burden while maintaining proficiency with various tools.
4Productivity
If digital engineering tools are used to virtualize physical systems, then development agility is improved, but interoperability challenges between tools increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized digital engineering platform as an intermediary that manages interoperability between multiple digital engineering tools. This platform provides standardized connection points and data exchange protocols that allow tools to work together seamlessly. By routing interactions through this intermediary platform, the system maintains development agility while resolving interoperability challenges that would otherwise require complex direct integrations between tools.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for quantifying avoided carbon emissions. The approach includes receiving, from a client device in communication with a digital platform, a request to execute a task by the digital platform. A token is assigned by the digital platform, the token is configured to uniquely identify the received request to execute the task using the digital platform. The digital platform receives a first value representing a baseline execution cost associated with executing the task. The digital platform determines, using the assigned token and based on execution of the task using the digital platform, a second value representing a reduction in execution cost attained by using the digital platform. The digital platform generates, based on a comparison of the second value to the first value, an attained execution reduction cost associated with the execution of the task by the digital platform.