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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2001
Steven Jeffrey Heslop, Mason, OH (US);
James Andrew Lanzarotta, West Chester, OH (US);
Michael Steven Olle, Kennesaw, GA (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for generating a quality enhancement project report. In one embodiment, the methods and systems generate a report of a Six Sigma quality enhancement project directed to a selected process. The project report in this embodiment includes a starting process capability, an ending process capability, a confidence level for the process capabilities, a performance chart that graphically depicts a process improvement and economic data corresponding to the overall cost savings that should result from implementing the process improvement. In one embodiment, a user automatically generates a project report by entering basic project information into various fields on a computer-implemented form displayed on a computer screen. This basic information can include starting process performance data, ending process performance data, and economic data such as labor reductions and implementation costs. After the user has entered this information, process parameters that characterize the project results are automatically generated on the computer-implemented form.