Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Operations research or analysis
Patent
1996-03-04
1998-06-09
McElheny, Jr., Donald E.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Operations research or analysis
36446816, G06F 1750
Patent
active
057651370
ABSTRACT:
A computer system determines a quantitative measure of a manufacturer's capability to achieve a product requirement at an acceptable cost. This quantitative measure, called the manufacturer's capability curve, is a function relating a product requirement, such as a customer's need or a government regulation or other performance requirement of a component of the product, to a cost for achieving this product requirement. The use of the computer system is enhanced by following a methodology for identifying possible key characteristics as described below. This methodology allows for identification of the relationship of lower level features to higher level features of a product and identification of interaction between two or more features and their impact on product performance.
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