System and method of modeling customer demand in a print production environment
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorsBo Hu, Sudhendu Rai
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Abstract
A method of determining one or more performance metrics associated with a print shop may include identifying one or more historical print jobs from a historical print job database. Each historical print job may include a historical print job type and historical job content information. The method may include generating, by a computing device, one or more synthetic print jobs based on the historical job type and historical job content information associated with the identified historical print jobs, and determining, by the computing device, one or more performance metrics associated with processing the one or more synthetic print jobs by a print shop.
Claims19
A method of determining one or more performance metrics associated with a print shop, the method comprising:
- identifying one or more historical print jobs from a historical print job database, wherein each historical print job comprises a historical print job type and historical job content information;
- generating, by a computing device, one or more synthetic print jobs based on the historical job type and historical job content information associated with the identified historical print jobs, wherein one or more of the generated synthetic print jobs have an arrival time distribution at an arrival time comprising a Poisson process having a mean value that is based on a cumulative number of operating hour time units at the arrival time;
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- determining, by the computing device, one or more performance metrics associated with processing the one or more synthetic print jobs by a print shop.
A method of determining one or more performance metrics associated with a print shop, the method comprising:
- identifying one or more historical print jobs from a historical print job database, wherein each historical print job comprises a historical print job type and historical job content information;
- creating a modified set of historical print jobs by modifying at least one of the one or more historical print jobs in the historical print job database to reflect one or more of the following:
- a market condition;
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- a change in a parameter associated with one or more of the historical print jobs;
- generating, by a computing device, one or more synthetic print jobs based on the modified set of historical print jobs, wherein one or more of the generated synthetic print jobs have an arrival time distribution at an arrival time comprising a Poisson process having a mean value that is based on a cumulative number of operating hour time units at the arrival time;
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- performing a robustness test of a print shop to determine one or more performance metrics associated with processing the generated synthetic print jobs by the print shop.
A system for determining one or more performance metrics associated with a print shop, the system comprising:
- a computing device;
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- a computer-readable storage medium in communication with the computing device, wherein the computer-readable storage medium comprises one or more programming instructions for:
- identifying one or more historical print jobs from a historical print job database, wherein each historical print job comprises a historical print job type and historical job content information,
- generating one or more synthetic print jobs based on the historical job type and historical job content information associated with the identified historical print jobs, wherein one or more of the generated synthetic print jobs have an arrival time distribution at an arrival time comprising a Poisson process having a mean value that is based on a cumulative number of operating hour time units at the arrival time, and
- determining, by the computing device, one or more performance metrics associated with processing the one or more synthetic print jobs by a print shop.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.