US 10,853,536 B1Granted

Automatic requirement verification engine and analytics

AssigneeImagars LLC

InventorsBaldur Andrew Steingrimsson, Anand Kulkarni

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Abstract

This invention presents a transformative design decision support tool (an e-Design Assessment Engine), one that 1. Significantly reduces cost and risk of engineering design projects, over the state of affair, in part through early and automatic detection of design oversights; 2. Offers compelling reduction in the development time of designs, through improved productivity, but without compromising quality or creativity; 3. Offers wide range of flexibility in terms of supporting design processes employed at different design organizations. The design oversights are identified through proper structuring of the engineering design requirements, extraction of relevant design parameters through application program interfaces provided by the pertinent design tools, and mapping against the requirements. Big data analytics are applied to repositories of past designs, for the purpose of improving new designs. The Engine can be used stand-alone, as a part of a design ecosystem, or integrated into existing systems for product lifecycle or data management.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus, for design decision support, an apparatus capable of providing real-time feedback on design decisions, for the purpose of enabling discovery of problems early in a design process, where problems are less expensive to fix, an apparatus

optionally supporting a cloud communication system,
optionally supporting a web interface,
supporting one or more interface with, or being integrated into, relevant development tools for engineering design,
optionally supporting one or more interface with industry databases for codes or standards,
optionally supporting a customizable supervisor mode,
comprising one or more processors;
comprising memory coupled to the one or more processors and storing instructions, which, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
feeding Customer Requirements from a User to a Requirement Analysis software,
feeding Engineering Requirements from the Requirement Analysis software into software for associating key words from a given Engineering Requirement with appropriate design parameters from a specific output file from the development tools,
feeding a Decomposed Concept Model from a Concept Design stage into software for associating key words for a given Engineering Requirement with appropriate design parameters from a specific output file from the development tools,
providing a Risk Table from a Detailed Design stage to the software for associating key words from a given Engineering Requirement with appropriate parameters from a specific output file from the development tools,
providing pertinent scripts from a Script Repository to the design tools, based on detailed analyses of relevance to address risks from the Risk Table,
providing pertinent scripts from the Script Repository to the development tools,
providing output of development tools to software for extracting the appropriate design parameters,
associating appropriate design parameters from a specific output file from the design tools with key words from a given Engineering Requirement,
providing software for automatic requirement compliance verification,
provide outcome of the automatic requirement compliance verification to the User in the form of real-time alerts,
providing the User with design information resulting from a Final Design stage.

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A method for design decision support, a method capable of providing real-time feedback on design decisions, for purpose of enabling discovery of problems early in the design process, where the problems are less expensive to fix, a method

with an optional a cloud communication step,
with an optional web interfacing step,
with a step for interfacing with relevant development tools for engineering design,
with an optional step for interfacing with one or more industry databases for codes or standards,
with a step for optionally accessing a customizable supervisor mode,
a method comprising
feeding Customer Requirements from a User to a Requirement Analysis step,
feeding Engineering Requirements from the Requirement Analysis step to a step where key words from a given Engineering Requirement are associated with appropriate design parameters from a specific output file from the development tools,
feeding a Decomposed Concept Model from a Concept Design step to a step where key words for a given Engineering Requirement are associated with appropriate design parameters from a specific output file from the development tools,
providing a Risk Table from a Detailed Design step to a step where key words from a given Engineering Requirement are associated with appropriate parameters from a specific output file from the development tools,
providing pertinent scripts from a Script Repository to the development tools, based on detailed analyses of relevance to address risks from the Risk Table,
providing pertinent scripts from the Script Repository to the development tools,
providing output of development tools to a step for extracting the appropriate design parameters,
associating appropriate design parameters from a specific output file from the design tools with key words from a given Engineering Requirement,
conducting automatic requirement compliance verification,
relaying the outcome of the automatic requirement compliance verification to the User in the form of real-time alerts,
providing the User with design information resulting from a Final Design step.

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