Patent ID: 7933746
Filing Date: 2011-04-26
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. Product design software embodied in a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the software, when executed by a computer, configured to: generate a user interface that enables a user to define a product design structure, the product design structure comprising a plurality of customer concerns, a plurality of physical properties associated with components of the product, and a plurality of relation models, each customer concern being associated with at least one physical property via at least one mathematical relationship defined in at least one of the relation models; based on input from the user via the user interface, model a list of one or more analyses on each relation model, a list of one or more tests on each analysis, a list of one or more physical properties and customer concerns that are associated with each test, and a list of one or more test cases that capture either controlled or observed tested values for each of the physical properties and customer concerns associated with the test; compute from the tested values a mathematical formula to be set into the relation model; and incorporate the computed mathematical formula into the relation model.