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US 11,687,056 B2Granted
Machinery conversion pivot opportunity identification
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsTrudy L. Hewitt, Zachary A. Silverstein, Alan Chung, Jeremy R. Fox
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Abstract
In an approach for identifying machinery conversion pivot opportunities utilizing a crowdsourced database, a processor receives machinery information for machinery of a user. A processor identifies a plurality of alternative uses for the machinery from a public cloud database based on the machinery information. A processor ranks the plurality of alternative uses for the machinery based on a set of factors. A processor sends the ranked plurality of alternative uses for the machinery to the user.
Claims17
A method comprising:
- capturing, by one or more processors, baseline measurements of machinery of a user;
- identifying, by the one or more processors, a plurality of alternative uses for the machinery from a public cloud database based on the baseline measurements of the machinery, wherein for each alternative use the machinery would be modified to produce an alternative good;
- ranking, by the one or more processors, the plurality of alternative uses for the machinery based on a set of factors, wherein the set of factors are selected from the group consisting of:
- a time required to modify the machinery, a cost required to modify the machinery, a projected revenue expected from a production of a respective alternative good, a return on investment from a modification of the machinery, and a permanency of the modification of the machinery;
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- sending, by the one or more processors, the ranked plurality of alternative uses for the machinery to the user.
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A non-transitory computer program product comprising:
- one or more computer readable hardware storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable hardware storage media, the program instructions comprising:
- program instructions to capture baseline measurements of machinery of a user;
- program instructions to identify a plurality of alternative uses for the machinery from a public cloud database based on the baseline measurements of the machinery, wherein for each alternative use the machinery would be modified to produce an alternative good;
- program instructions to rank the plurality of alternative uses for the machinery based on a set of factors, wherein the set of factors are selected from the group consisting of:
- a time required to modify the machinery, a cost required to modify the machinery, a projected revenue expected from a production of a respective alternative good, a return on investment from a modification of the machinery, and a permanency of the modification of the machinery;
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- program instructions to send the ranked plurality of alternative uses for the machinery to the user.
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A non-transitory computer system comprising:
- one or more computer processors;
- one or more computer readable hardware storage media;
- program instructions collectively stored on the one or more computer readable hardware storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more computer processors, the stored program instructions comprising:
- program instructions to capture baseline measurements of machinery of a user;
- program instructions to identify a plurality of alternative uses for the machinery from a public cloud database based on the baseline measurements of the machinery, wherein for each alternative use the machinery would be modified to produce an alternative good;
- program instructions to rank the plurality of alternative uses for the machinery based on a set of factors, wherein the set of factors are selected from the group consisting of:
- a time required to modify the machinery, a cost required to modify the machinery, a projected revenue expected from a production of a respective alternative good, a return on investment from a modification of the machinery, and a permanency of the modification of the machinery;
- and
- program instructions to send the ranked plurality of alternative uses for the machinery to the user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.