Patent Document ID: 20110093105
Application ID: 12582215
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method for recommending one or more materials used in designing and manufacturing one or more parts, the method comprising: receiving on one or more computers data from at least three data sources including a sourcing data source, a manufacturing data source, and a design data source; standardizing on the one or more computers the data from the at least three data sources to obtain a collection of data including a dataset of materials for consideration in recommending one or more materials for use in one or more parts; receiving on the one or more computers one or more optimization metrics and one or more constraints for the dataset of materials; determining on the one or more computers one or more optimization values for each material based on the dataset of materials and the one or more optimization metrics; and performing on the one or more computers an optimization algorithm on each material based at least on the one or more optimization values and the one or more constraints to obtain one or more recommended materials from the dataset of materials for use in a design of one or more parts.