Method and apparatus for industrial data acquisition and product costing
First Claim
1. An information storage, processing, and reporting system for tracing enterprise wide product data, said system comprising:
- a data storage adapted for storing data related to a product;
means adapted for receiving related data for a product from said data storage system;
means for cataloging said related data about said product, by product families wherein said means for cataloging related data includes;
means for identifying data elements related to selected product families;
means for indexing said identified data elements which are related to a selected first product family in accordance with data representative thereof;
means for grouping said indexed data elements pursuant to data representative of selected criterion, wherein said means for grouping includes means for grouping said data according to activity centers; and
means adapted for storing said grouped data elements in a relational database;
means for processing said grouped data elements in a digital processor in accordance with Activity Based Cost criteria; and
means adapted for storing said processed data in a relational database structure.
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Abstract
An information storage, processing, and reporting system (20) for tracing enterprise wide product data, the system comprises a data storage (23, 26, 50) is adapted for storing data (106, 120, 112, 108) entries related to a product family. The data is received in a data warehouse system (42). The data is cataloged (54, 56, 58, 62). Cataloging the related data includes identifying data elements related to selected product families. The system indexes (70, 140, 144, 148, 149, 159, 169, 179) the identified data elements which are related to a selected first product family in accordance with the data representative thereof. Interconnected tables 140, 144, 148, 149, 159, 169, 179 are used for grouping indexed data elements pursuant to data representative of selected criterion. A storage medium (50) is adapted for storing the grouped data elements in a relational database (52). A digital processor (44) processes (36, 38, 116, 128) the grouped data elements in accordance with Activity Based Cost criteria. The memory medium (50) is adapted for storing the processed data (122, 110, 114, 124, 56, 54) in a relational database structure (52).
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30 Claims
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1. An information storage, processing, and reporting system for tracing enterprise wide product data, said system comprising:
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a data storage adapted for storing data related to a product; means adapted for receiving related data for a product from said data storage system; means for cataloging said related data about said product, by product families wherein said means for cataloging related data includes; means for identifying data elements related to selected product families; means for indexing said identified data elements which are related to a selected first product family in accordance with data representative thereof; means for grouping said indexed data elements pursuant to data representative of selected criterion, wherein said means for grouping includes means for grouping said data according to activity centers; and means adapted for storing said grouped data elements in a relational database; means for processing said grouped data elements in a digital processor in accordance with Activity Based Cost criteria; and means adapted for storing said processed data in a relational database structure. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An information storage, processing, and reporting method for tracing enterprise wide product data, said method comprising the steps of:
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storing data entries related to a product family; receiving the stored related data for a product; cataloging said related data about said product families wherein said step of cataloging related data includes the steps of; identifying data elements related to selected product families; indexing the identified data elements which are related to a selected first product family in accordance with data representative thereof; grouping said indexed data elements pursuant to data representative of selected criterion, the step of grouping including grouping said indexed data according to activity centers; and storing said grouped data elements in a relational database; processing said grouped data elements in a digital processor in accordance with Activity Based Cost criteria; and storing said processed data in a relational database structure. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. An industrial data acquisition and product costing system comprising:
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means adapted for acquiring product data representative of at least one product, the product data including a data field representative of a product family to which each of an associated product belongs; a data storage adapted for storing acquired product data; comparison means adapted for isolating groups of product families in accordance with a testing of the product data against at least one of other product data and data representative of a family standard; means adapted for selectively retrieving data representative of isolated groups of product families in accordance with tested product data; means for retrieving preselected data representative of activity based costing data; means for retrieving product data for each product of an isolated group of products; and means for outputting data representative of the activity based costing data having been applied to retrieved product data on an isolated group of products. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24)
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25. An information storage, processing, and reporting system for tracing enterprise wide product data, said system comprising:
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a data storage adapted for storing data related to a product; means adapted for receiving related data for a product from said data storage system; means for cataloging said related data by product families, wherein said means for cataloging related data includes; means for identifying data elements related to selected product families; means for indexing said identified data elements which are related to a selected first product family in accordance with data representative thereof; means for grouping said indexed data elements pursuant to data representative of selected criterion; and means adapted for storing said grouped data elements in a relational database; means for processing said grouped data elements in a digital processor in accordance with Activity Based Cost criteria, said means for processing including means for determining a value associated with said product families in response to a driver value, said driver value being a measurable value; and means adapted for storing said processed data in a relational database structure.
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26. An information storage, processing, and reporting method for tracing enterprise wide product data, said method comprising the steps of:
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storing data entries related to a product family; receiving the stored related data for a product; cataloging said related data about said product families wherein said step of cataloging related data includes the steps of; identifying data elements related to selected product families; indexing the identified data elements which are related to a selected first product family in accordance with data representative thereof; grouping said indexed data elements pursuant to data representative of selected criterion; and storing said grouped data elements in a relational database; processing said grouped data elements in a digital processor in accordance with Activity Based Cost criteria, wherein the step of processing includes the step of determining a value associated with said product family in response to a driver value, said driver value being a measurable value; and storing said processed data in a relational database structure.
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27. An information storage, processing, and reporting system for tracing enterprise wide product data, said system comprising:
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a data storage adapted for storing data related to a product; means adapted for receiving related data for a product from said data storage system; means for cataloging said related data by product families wherein said means for cataloging related data includes; means for identifying data elements related to selected product families; means for indexing said identified data elements which are related to a selected first product family in accordance with data representative thereof; means for grouping said indexed data elements pursuant to data representative of selected criterion; and means adapted for storing said grouped data elements in a relational database; means for processing said grouped data elements in a digital processor in accordance with activity based cost criteria; and means adapted for storing said processed data in a relational database structure, wherein said processed data takes the form of a multi-field data structure including; (1) business unit data identifying one or more business units of an organization, (2) activity data representative of activities of the one or more business units, and (3) accounting data associated with the one or more business units. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30)
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