Lubricant design manufacturability process

A method for designing a lubricant blending component comprising:

• identifying a plurality of lubricant products for formulation using a plurality of formulation components, the plurality of formulation components for each lubricant product including a first blending component;
• selecting at least one first property of the first blending component;
• varying the at least one first property of the first blending component to have a first plurality of selected values;
• calculating a manufacturability index value for each of the plurality of lubricant products at each of the first plurality of selected values, wherein the value of a property Pp for each of the plurality of lubricant products is expressed relative to the values Pi for the property for each component i, present in an amount Xi (wt %) according to Formula (1):
• T(Pp)=Σ(i)[Xi*T(Pi)] (1)
• where T is any convenient functional form, such as a polynomial function, a logarithmic function, an exponential function, or a combination thereof, the calculated manufacturability index values for each of the plurality of lubricant products corresponding to a manufacturability window for each of the plurality of lubricant products;
• determining an overlap between the manufacturability windows for each lubricant product;
• and
• formulating the plurality of lubricant products using the first blending component, the first blending component having a value for the at least one selected first property within the determined overlap of the manufacturability windows.