Relative Performance Specification for System Design
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing system design methods often neglect performance goals or rely on inadequate specifications, failing to account for relative changes in the business environment and technological advancements, making it difficult to ensure system performance meets evolving demands.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method that receives a relative performance specification for a system, using a database of relative performance data to determine a system design that meets the specified performance level, allowing for interpolation or extrapolation between existing designs, and incorporating benchmarking and user interface features for optimal performance and cost considerations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If explicit performance goals are specified, then system design precision is improved, but the difficulty of determining appropriate performance goals increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses readily available benchmark data from existing systems as a disposable reference point. Instead of requiring complex analysis to determine performance goals, the system leverages easily obtainable data from current running systems, treating this baseline information as a starting point that can be quickly updated as new benchmarks become available.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms the performance specification from absolute values to relative changes. By expressing performance goals as percentages of improvement over existing systems rather than requiring precise absolute target values, the system allows designers to specify meaningful improvements without needing to determine exact performance targets.
2Ease of operation
If absolute performance values from existing systems are used as specifications, then ease of operation is improved, but adaptability to changing business environment deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the performance specification dynamic by expressing it as a relative improvement percentage rather than a fixed absolute value. This allows the specification to automatically adapt to changing business environments - as existing systems improve over time, the same percentage improvement represents different absolute performance levels, keeping the system adaptable without requiring frequent manual updates to performance targets.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary analysis by establishing a baseline from existing system performance data before designing the new system. This preliminary benchmarking action provides a foundation for setting performance goals that is both easy to obtain and inherently adaptable, as it is based on current real-world performance rather than theoretical or historical absolute values.
3Ease of operation
If best effort performance approach is used, then ease of operation is improved, but manufacturing precision of system design deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the performance specification parameter from vague qualitative terms to quantitative relative improvement percentages. Instead of using best effort approaches with undefined performance targets, the system requires specifications expressed as measurable percentages of improvement over benchmark systems, maintaining ease of specification while achieving precise performance targets.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces feedback by comparing the new system design against benchmark data from existing systems. This feedback mechanism ensures that performance specifications are not merely best efforts but are grounded in actual measured performance from comparable systems, providing a reference point that improves design precision while maintaining operational simplicity.
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AI summary
An embodiment of a computer implemented method of providing a design of a system receives a relative performance specification for the system. A particular system design is returned that is expected to perform at about the relative performance specification.