Global Integrated improvement planning tool
First Claim
1. A system for collective process improvement optimization at a plurality of locations, each of the locations having processes and identified improvements and at least some of the locations including processes having common and disparate elements, the system comprising:
- data storage related to each location;
a plurality of data entry systems, each data entry system to receive location data relevant to improvements to a location process from a user for a location and storing received location data in the related data storage for the location;
collective data storage coupled to the data storage of each location for collectively storing all of the data received for each location;
a collective data selection system to allow a user to select various data from the collectively stored data at varied detail levels; and
a collective data visualization system to allow a user to view the selected data at the selected detail level in a plurality of formats to allow easy analysis of the data.
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Abstract
A tool which gathers relevant improvement data at each particular plant location, for each particular technology and line. This improvement data can be the various underlying data needed for analysis and can include the intended or estimated efficiency increase for given areas of effort, with the relevant costs, manpower and so on. When all of the data for the relevant plants around the world has been inputted, this information is then transferred to a global storage location so that all data from all plants can be accessed simultaneously. With this multi-line, multi-facility data available, reporting structures are developed to allow simplified analysis of the particular improvements and related costs, resources and other factors. Reporting results can be easily developed along a myriad of relationships, such as by geography, by technology, by resource, and so on. Reviewing the derived report selections, at various levels of detail as desired, of all of the facilities around the world, an analyst can readily determine the optimal use of capital and resources to improve overall global system efficiency.
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1. A system for collective process improvement optimization at a plurality of locations, each of the locations having processes and identified improvements and at least some of the locations including processes having common and disparate elements, the system comprising:
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data storage related to each location;
a plurality of data entry systems, each data entry system to receive location data relevant to improvements to a location process from a user for a location and storing received location data in the related data storage for the location;
collective data storage coupled to the data storage of each location for collectively storing all of the data received for each location;
a collective data selection system to allow a user to select various data from the collectively stored data at varied detail levels; and
a collective data visualization system to allow a user to view the selected data at the selected detail level in a plurality of formats to allow easy analysis of the data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method for collective process improvement optimization at a plurality of locations, each of the locations having processes and identified improvements and at least some of the locations including processes having common and disparate elements, the method comprising:
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receiving data relevant to improvements to a process from a plurality of data entry systems, each data entry system receiving location data relevant to improvements to a location process from a user for a location;
storing received location data in data storage related to the location;
collectively storing all of the data received for each location in collective data storage;
selecting various data from the collectively stored data at varied detail levels; and
viewing the selected data at the selected detail level in a plurality of formats to allow easy analysis of the data. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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