A method of optimizing a design project

摘要

A method of optimizing a design concept from proposed multiple concepts for a project having initially identified technical issues (14). Each concept includes generalized technical specifications addressing the technical issues and specific design features (15) meeting overall project specifications. For each design concept, a critical-to-quality value is determined for each technical specification addressing the technical issue by weighting in importance each technical issue and each technical specification. The weightings are combined to ascertain the relative importance of each technical specification in meeting the initially identified project technical issues. For each design concept, a technical merit value for each design feature addressing each technical specification is determined by combining the critical-to-quality value for each technical specification and the weighting of importance of each design feature to ascertain the relative importance of each design feature in meeting the technical specifications. The technical merit values are summed, affording a measure of how well the design features meet the overall project technical issues. The summed technical merit values are compared to derive an optimized design concept. <IMAGE>