Patent Document ID: 20020010521
Application ID: 09848817
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented process for determining optimum configuration parameters for a buffered industrial process, comprising: initializing a population size by randomly selecting a first set of design and operation values associated with subsystems and buffers of the buffered industrial process to form a set of operating parameters for each member of the population; performing an availability discrete event simulation (ADES) on each member of the population to determine a product-based availability of each member; forming a new population having members with a second set of design and operation values related to the first set of design and operation values through a genetic algorithm and the product-based availability determined by the ADES; and iterating subsequent population members determined with the genetic algorithm with product-based availability determined by ADES to form improved sets of design and operation values from which the configuration parameters are selected for the buffered industrial process.