Manufacturing Platform for Autonomous Manufacturability Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current manufacturing processes lack efficient and autonomous methods to analyze manufacturability and cost associated with product designs, often requiring manual intervention and struggling to integrate design and production operations effectively.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented system that analyzes product designs for manufacturability and cost, using machine learning models to generate reports on compatibility and provide recommendations, facilitating autonomous product development and collaboration among entities.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If manual intervention is used to analyze manufacturability and cost, then analysis accuracy can be maintained, but productivity is reduced and manual effort increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanufacturability analysis accuracyVSAvoidproduct development speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables autonomous analysis of manufacturability and cost by having the manufacturing platform automatically evaluate product designs using stored manufacturing data and criteria, eliminating the need for manual intervention while maintaining analysis quality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces manual human analysis with an automated computer-based system that uses machine learning models and algorithms to evaluate manufacturability and cost, substituting mechanical human effort with automated computational processes

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Device complexity

If design and production operations are kept separate, then operational complexity is reduced, but integration efficiency worsens

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoperational structure simplicityVSAvoiddesign-to-production integration efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges design and production operations by integrating manufacturability analysis directly into the product design process, allowing both functions to operate within a unified platform that shares data and workflows

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The manufacturing platform serves multiple functions including design evaluation, manufacturability analysis, cost assessment, and production planning, allowing a single system to handle both design and production operations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS12055923B2Manufacturing and development platform
Publication Date: 2024.08.06 SYBRIDGE DIGITAL SOLUTIONS LLC
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AI summary

Techniques regarding manufacturing one or more digital product designs are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can include a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a user interface component that generates a manufacturability report regarding a product design in relation to a manufacturing process. The manufacturability report can indicate whether a product feature included in the product design is permissible based on a plurality of manufacturing considerations associated with the manufacturing process.