Patent Document ID: 20090248387
Application ID: 12057537
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for use with respect to a manufacturing process, the manufacturing process susceptible to simulation of quality, the quality simulation being computationally costly, the method comprising the steps of: performing a random sampling of possible events with respect to the manufacturing process; applying a classifier to the random sampling of possible events, the classifier yielding rareness value for each of the possible events; comparing the rareness values with a predefined rareness threshold, identifying events among the random sampling of possible events that are rarer than the predefined threshold; carrying out simulations of quality with respect to the identified events, yielding results thereof; and providing to a human user the results of the simulations; whereby the computational cost of performing applying, comparing, and simulating steps is less than the computational cost of carrying out simulations of quality with respect to the random sampling of possible events.