Patent Document ID: 8155938
Application ID: 12057537
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for simulating the effect of events of interest in a manufacturing process, the manufacturing process being susceptible to simulation, the method comprising the steps of: (a) generating a first randomly chosen sample of possible events; (b) performing the manufacturing process simulation on each of the events in the first randomly chosen sample; (c) using the results from step (b) to generate a classifier; (d) generating a second randomly chosen sample of possible events; (e) applying the classifier to each of the events in the second randomly chosen sample, the classifier yielding rareness values for each of the events; (f) comparing the rareness values with a predefined rareness threshold, thereby identifying events among the second randomly chosen sample that are rarer than the predefined threshold; (g) carrying out manufacturing simulations of the events identified in step (f), yielding results thereof; and (h) providing to a human user the results of the manufacturing simulations.