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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2000
Douglas J. Durrant, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Gerald L. Hill, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Linda S. Perez, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Abstract
A method and system for providing a manufacturing information system is disclosed. The system comprises a means for receiving and storing in a data warehouse component identifiers for identifying component manufacturing parameters for a quantity of components. The system further includes product identifiers for identifying manufactured products. The system further comprises a relational means for relating the component identifiers with the product identifiers for the products in which the components are included. The system further comprises a means for receiving a sub-set of the product identifiers, wherein the sub-set of product identifiers is for identifying a sub-set of the products which have a variation in performance. The system further comprises an analytical tool for correlating at least one of the component identifiers with the received sub-set of product identifiers, thereby identifying the component manufacturing parameter identified by the at least one component identifier as a possible cause of the variation in performance.