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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2017
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta, GA (US);
Thomas Gruenewald, Somerset, NJ (US);
Lingyun Wang, Princeton, NJ (US);
Justinian Rosca, West Windsor, NJ (US);
Thomas Kurfess, Clemson, NJ (US);
Stephanie Locks, Longwood, FL (US);
Aoyu Chen, Atlanta, GA (US);
Dongmin Han, Atlanta, GA (US);
Nuodi Huang, Atlanta, GA (US);
Roby Lynn, Atlanta, GA (US);
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method of identifying federations of manufacturing apps using House of Quality (HoQ) analysis includes receiving user request information comprising a plurality of desired functions and an importance value for each of the plurality of desired functions and generating a correlation matrix between the plurality of apps, wherein each element of the correlation matrix indicates a degree of correlation between a pair of apps. A relationship matrix is generated which comprises numerical values indicating relationships between a plurality of apps and the plurality of desired functions, wherein each column of relationship matrix is associated with an app and each row is associated with a desired function. Next, a weighted matrix is created by multiplying each row in the relationship matrix by the importance value corresponding to the desired function associated with the row. The numerical values in each column of the weighted matrix are aggregated to determine a total value for each of the plurality of apps. A federation of apps is identified based on the correlation matrix and the total values determined for the plurality of apps.