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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2000
John Kaminsky, Rensselaer, NY (US);
Mandar K. Chati, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Matthew F. Niemeyer, North Chatham, NY (US);
Mohamed Ahmed Ali, Halfmoon, NY (US);
Rick N. Williams, Pittsfield, MA (US);
General Electric Company, Pittsfield, MA (US);
Abstract
An exemplary embodiment of the invention is a method for optimizing a product design. The method includes specifying a plurality of application parameters for the product. A plurality of predetermined factors and responses are obtained in response to the plurality of application parameters. A transfer function is obtained which relates at least one factor to at least one response. The transfer function is optimized in response to user-defined optimization criteria to generate an optimized factor and an optimized response. The optimized factor and the optimized response are then displayed.