Patent ID: 9746850
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: G01N,G05B,G16C

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for causing testing of a product characteristic in a processing facility, the method comprising: determining, by a computing device, (i) a plurality of factors corresponding to different parameters for testing the product characteristic, (ii) a plurality of levels corresponding to different settings of each factor, and (iii) one or more partitions for testing the product characteristic; decomposing, by the computing device, the plurality of factors to generate a plurality of level sets, wherein each level set comprises zero or more levels assignable to each factor at each partition; generating, by the computing device, a plurality of orthogonal arrays by distributing elements of each matrix using at least one Latin square matrix, wherein (i) each orthogonal array corresponds to a partition and (ii) an element of each orthogonal array indexes a level set from the plurality of level sets produced from the decomposition; performing, by the computing device, at each of the partitions, steps comprising: causing, by the computing device, testing of the product characteristic in the processing facility that adjusts, at each one of the one or more partitions, the different parameters using the levels specified by the corresponding active matrix.