Workplace Scenario Impact Assessment via ML Simulation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Companies face challenges in accurately assessing the impact of changes in scenarios on workplace management due to increasing frequency of changes driven by business cycles, economics, and external factors, lacking effective mechanisms for such assessments.

Innovation Solution

A method utilizing a computing apparatus that receives workplace environment data and selects scenarios associated with machine learning models to execute simulations, generating insight data and recommendations on the impact of changes, leveraging stored workplace environment data and external inputs.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If traditional workplace management assessment methods are used, then implementation of changes is straightforward, but accuracy of impact assessment deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimpact assessment accuracyVSAvoidassessment system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary simulations and impact assessments before actual workplace changes are implemented. Machine learning models predict outcomes of potential changes in advance, allowing organizations to evaluate impacts virtually before committing to physical or operational changes, thereby improving assessment accuracy without requiring complex real-time monitoring systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates virtual copies or digital twins of workplace environments and uses machine learning models to simulate changes in these copied environments. This allows accurate impact assessment by testing changes in a virtual representation rather than directly in the physical workplace, avoiding the need for complex physical experimentation while maintaining high measurement precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Measurement precision

If multiple scenarios are analyzed to improve assessment accuracy, then assessment quality improves, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveassessment qualityVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Machine learning models are trained in advance on historical workplace data and various scenario outcomes. This preliminary training enables the models to rapidly evaluate multiple scenarios during actual assessments without requiring time-consuming real-time analysis, thus maintaining high assessment quality while reducing processing time for multi-scenario analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system efficiently handles multiple scenarios by changing key parameters in the machine learning models rather than running complete separate analyses for each scenario. By adjusting input parameters and using the pre-trained models to evaluate different conditions, the system can assess multiple scenarios quickly while maintaining comprehensive analysis quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If comprehensive workplace data is collected to improve model accuracy, then prediction accuracy improves, but data management complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprediction accuracyVSAvoiddata management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The machine learning models are designed to handle multiple types of workplace data (environmental, operational, human resources) through a unified framework. This multi-functional approach allows the system to process diverse data sources simultaneously, improving prediction accuracy while avoiding the need for separate complex management systems for each data type.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces data preprocessing and integration layers that act as intermediaries between raw workplace data and the machine learning models. These intermediary components standardize and harmonize diverse data sources before they reach the prediction models, reducing data management complexity while preserving the comprehensive data needed for high prediction accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20240211841A1Methods for assessing an impact of a change in a scenario on workplace management and devices thereof
Publication Date: 2024.06.27 JONES LANG LASALLE IP
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AI summary

Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and an apparatus that assess an impact of a change in a scenario on workplace management include receiving an identification of a workplace environment and a selection of one of a plurality of types of scenarios associated with one of a plurality of types of workplace management machine learning models from one of a plurality of client devices. A subset of stored workplace environment data is retrieved based on the identification of the workplace environment and one or more inputs for the one of workplace management machine learning models associated with the selected one of the scenarios. One or more simulations are executed based one on more received changes in the retrieved subset of workplace environment data in the selected one of the types of workplace management machine learning models to generate a set of insight data. The generated set of insight data for the workplace environment is output to the one of the client devices.