Integration of groupware with the integrated quality control methodology via facilitated work sessions
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1. A method for establishing and documenting a quality control plan for production or service processes, comprising the steps of:
- providing a group decision support environment for a plurality of participants, the environment including a network of a multitude of computer interface stations, each station including input means and a display means;
simultaneously soliciting from a plurality of the participants information concerning presently existing or desired processes;
simultaneously inputting into a plurality of the computer stations data representing the information concerning presently existing or desired processes, by a plurality of the participants;
storing the data concerning presently existing or desired processes in the network;
simultaneously soliciting from a plurality of the participants information concerning variables affecting quality of the presently existing or desired processes;
simultaneously inputting into a plurality of the workstations data representing the information concerning variables affecting quality of the presently existing or desired processes, by a plurality of the participants;
storing the data concerning variables affecting quality of the presently existing or desired process in the network;
formatting stored data representing the information concerning processes and the variables affecting quality in a format suitable for use by a selected database tool;
executing a selected bridge program for retrieving the formatted data from the database tool; and
automatically retrieving from network storage information contained in the computer network, outlining the quality control plan for manuals containing the information that was input by a plurality of the participants concerning presently existing or desired processes and variables affecting quality of the presently existing or desired processes.
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Abstract
A network application for automatically formatting and printing documents to be used as planning manuals to be used by company personnel for improving quality control. The outputted documents can also be educational manuals for dispersing among organizational personnel common information for integrated strategic planning for quality control improvement. Facilitated collaborative work sessions among work groups inputting and sharing comments and ideas provide starting data to the network application.
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1. A method for establishing and documenting a quality control plan for production or service processes, comprising the steps of:
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providing a group decision support environment for a plurality of participants, the environment including a network of a multitude of computer interface stations, each station including input means and a display means; simultaneously soliciting from a plurality of the participants information concerning presently existing or desired processes; simultaneously inputting into a plurality of the computer stations data representing the information concerning presently existing or desired processes, by a plurality of the participants; storing the data concerning presently existing or desired processes in the network; simultaneously soliciting from a plurality of the participants information concerning variables affecting quality of the presently existing or desired processes; simultaneously inputting into a plurality of the workstations data representing the information concerning variables affecting quality of the presently existing or desired processes, by a plurality of the participants; storing the data concerning variables affecting quality of the presently existing or desired process in the network; formatting stored data representing the information concerning processes and the variables affecting quality in a format suitable for use by a selected database tool; executing a selected bridge program for retrieving the formatted data from the database tool; and automatically retrieving from network storage information contained in the computer network, outlining the quality control plan for manuals containing the information that was input by a plurality of the participants concerning presently existing or desired processes and variables affecting quality of the presently existing or desired processes. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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