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US 12,602,604 B2Granted
Method and system for estimating duration and performance of a product over lifecycle of the same
AssigneeBrembo S.p.A.
InventorsSilvia Brignoli, Mattia Ravasio, Ajay Kumar Mishra, Rahil Shah
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Abstract
Application, in a single software instrument, of AI and advanced statistics methods for monitoring and analyzing quality problems over the whole lifecycle of a product is provided. A method based on web scraping techniques and AI for monitoring the product out of the warranty period is also provided.
Claims15
A computer-implemented method for estimating duration and performance of a product over a lifecycle of the same, comprising the following steps:
- a) obtaining and saving in a database one or more claims of users about the product, the one or more claims each comprising a respective text and respective metadata;
- b) analyzing respective texts and establishing for each one a respective list of keywords of the respective text;
- c) for each keyword of the respective list of keywords, assigning and saving in the database a respective probability weight for each failure mode of a predefined list of failure modes;
- d) for each failure mode, adding up the probability weights of the failure mode for each keyword of step c) for each respective text;
- e) selecting and saving in the database the failure mode with greatest weight obtained in step d) for each respective text;
- f) calculating the number of claims expected on the product, as a function of time, by a statistic prediction algorithm, based on the probability weights of each failure mode and the failure mode with greatest weight of the respective texts of the one or more claims;
- wherein said one or more claims comprise at least one claim consisting of a text obtained by web scraping and related metadata extracted from the text;
- g) displaying one or more pieces of information calculated in steps b) to f) on a graphical interface;
- h) redesigning a physical product based on one or more pieces of information calculated in steps b) to f) to create a new product design with improved reliability or duration;
- and
- i) producing the physical product according to the new product design.
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A system for determining duration and performance of a product over a lifecycle of the same, the system comprising:
- a server;
- a database connected to said server;
- and
- a client connected to said server through a telecommunication network;
- wherein:
- the server is configured to perform web scraping and steps a)-f) of a computer-implemented method for estimating duration and performance of a product over a lifecycle of the same, comprising the following steps:
- a) obtaining and saving in a database one or more claims of users about the product, the one or more claims each comprising a respective text and respective metadata;
- b) analyzing respective texts and establishing for each one a respective list of keywords of the respective text;
- c) for each keyword of the respective list of keywords, assigning and saving in the database a respective probability weight for each failure mode of a predefined list of failure modes;
- d) for each failure mode, adding up the probability weights of the failure mode for each keyword of step c) for each respective text;
- e) selecting and saving in the database the failure mode with greatest weight obtained in step d) for each respective text;
- f) calculating the number of claims expected on the product, as a function of time, by a statistic prediction algorithm, based on the probability weights of each failure mode and the failure mode with greatest weight of the respective texts of the one or more claims;
- wherein said one or more claims comprise at least one claim consisting of a text obtained by web scraping and related metadata extracted from the text;
- and
- g) displaying one or more pieces of information calculated in steps b) to f) on a graphical interface;
- h) redesigning a physical product based on one or more pieces of information calculated in steps b) to f) to create a new product design with improved reliability or duration;
- and
- i) producing the physical product according to the new product design, wherein
- the client is configured with a graphical interface to perform step g);
- and
- the database is configured to store outputs of steps a) to f).
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.