Interactive GUI for Specification Rate Prediction and Bound Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Manufacturers face challenges in predicting and optimizing specification rates for products within strict regulatory standards, such as those set by the FDA, where complex nonlinear functions make it difficult to find design spaces that ensure quality and flexibility without requiring extensive computational efforts or reapprovals.
Innovation Solution
An interactive graphical user interface is provided that allows users to adjust bounds and visualize the impact on predicted specification rates, enabling the setting of specification limits that honor response criteria, thereby facilitating the exploration of design spaces and ensuring quality products while maintaining flexibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If manufacturers use complex nonlinear functions to predict specification rates, then prediction accuracy is improved, but computational effort and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a graphical user interface as an intermediary layer between the user and the complex computational model. The GUI accepts simple bound adjustments from users and automatically handles the complex nonlinear computations to predict specification rates, shielding users from computational complexity while maintaining prediction accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs automated computations and predictions when users adjust bounds in the graphical interface. The computational model automatically recalculates specification rates based on user inputs without requiring users to understand or perform the complex nonlinear calculations themselves, enabling self-service operation despite underlying computational complexity.
2Reliability
If manufacturers set strict specification limits to ensure quality, then product quality is improved, but design flexibility decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic bound adjustment capabilities in the graphical user interface, allowing users to interactively modify specification bounds and immediately see the impact on specification rates. This dynamic interaction enables users to find optimal balances between strict quality requirements and design flexibility by visually exploring different bound configurations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides immediate visual feedback in the graphical interface when users adjust bounds, showing how changes affect specification rates and design spaces. This feedback mechanism allows users to iteratively refine their specification limits to achieve both quality assurance and design flexibility without requiring extensive reapprovals.
3Measurement precision
If manufacturers perform extensive computational analysis to optimize design spaces, then specification rate prediction accuracy is improved, but time and resource consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary computational analysis by pre-processing data and establishing the nonlinear predictive model before users need to query specification rates. Once the model is established, users can quickly adjust bounds and receive immediate predictions without performing extensive computations each time, reducing time loss for routine optimization tasks.
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AI summary
A computing system obtains computer model(s) configured to predict response(s) based on variable(s). The system obtains a specification defining an allowed response set for the response(s) and receives an initial setting for bound(s). The system generates an initial design space for the variable(s) defined by the initial setting. The system displays in a graphical user interface (GUI) an initial representation of a specification rate. The specification rate indicates a portion of the initial design space predicted to generate a response within the allowed response set defined by the specification. The system receives an updated setting. The system generates an updated design space for the variable(s) defined by the updated setting. The system displays in the GUI an updated representation of an updated specification rate. The updated specification rate indicates a portion of the updated design space predicted to generate a response within the allowed response set defined by the specification.