Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – For cost/price
Reexamination Certificate
2008-03-20
2011-11-29
Borissov, Igor (Department: 3628)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
For cost/price
C705S007380, C703S002000, C700S036000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08069122
ABSTRACT:
Predictive cost reduction based on a thermodynamic model, in which parameters associated with a process are accessed. The parameters include a quantity of units of work-in-process at first and second times, and first and second constants respectively indicative of growth between the first and second times, and of a translated reduction of the work-in-process to a reduction of cost. A thermodynamic model is applied to the accessed parameters, and a predictive cost reduction associated with an improvement of the process based on applying the thermodynamic model is output.
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