Automated system for preparing and presenting control charts

摘要

To provide large amounts of operations and quality related data to business owners, managers and operators, a system and method are provided to easily produce and present control charts having many different selectable perspectives. To provide this ability, and automated process is followed which calculates and indexes virtually all control chart parameters and stores the information in an OLAP cube structure. Using different types of presentation methodologies, the control charts can be easily generated and altered depending on the desires of the particular user. Since virtually all variations are stored and indexed, when the parameters used to generate the control charts are altered, the system can simply retrieve all necessary information from the indexed OLAP cube structure and quickly generate a visual display of the desired control chart.

主权项

1. A system for efficiently presenting performance data to a user related to a predetermined processes, comprising:
a database containing data related to a plurality of process measures; a processor in communication with the database; memory in communication with the processor, the memory containing instructions for causing the processor to create a tailored OLAP cube by applying predetermined rules to the data in the database, wherein the predetermined rules include process evaluation rules tailored for the automatic creation of a plurality of control charts and related dimension rules which are based upon a plurality of different dimensions of the data; a user interface in communication with the processor, and a display in communication with the processor for presenting predetermined reports to the user; wherein the memory further contains instructions allowing the user to enter selected criteria using the user interface which causes the processor to access the OLAP cube and produce a resulting report using only information in the OLAP cube, and wherein the instructions further allow the user to revise the selected criteria and thus create a subsequent predetermined report again using only information in the OLAP cube.