Quality management system with human-machine interface for industrial automation
First Claim
1. A quality management system comprising:
- a first operator station loaded with a human machine interface software application, the first operator station adapted to receive manual entry operations;
a second operator station adapted to receive data from gages, test equipment, control devices, and power monitoring devices;
at least one gage or control device electrically connected to the second operator station;
an application server storing a first program for setting up customer quality information, a second program for generating reports, a third program for logging to a database, and a fourth program for maintaining events;
a database server storing a local database; and
, a web server storing a capability warehouse, wherein the first operator station, second operator station, application server, and database server are connected over a shared network, and wherein the web server is connected to the database server over a web connection.
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Abstract
A quality management system and computer based process for managing quality are disclosed. The quality management system includes a set of networked operator stations for entering data including critical to quality customer information and information relating to the equipment to be monitored on a quality basis. The system further includes an application server on the network for running the programs of the system such as critical to quality setup, report generation, logging to the database, and maintenance events. A database server is further included on the network for storing the local database. A web server holding a capability warehouse connects to the local database over a web connection. The process for managing the quality of the monitored electrical equipment includes sending process capability data from the local database to the capability warehouse, updating an entitlement database embedded in the capability warehouse, delivering new schema information to the local database from the entitlement database, and reporting information to the customer at an operator station via an automatic or requested report.
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20 Claims
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1. A quality management system comprising:
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a first operator station loaded with a human machine interface software application, the first operator station adapted to receive manual entry operations;
a second operator station adapted to receive data from gages, test equipment, control devices, and power monitoring devices;
at least one gage or control device electrically connected to the second operator station;
an application server storing a first program for setting up customer quality information, a second program for generating reports, a third program for logging to a database, and a fourth program for maintaining events;
a database server storing a local database; and
,a web server storing a capability warehouse, wherein the first operator station, second operator station, application server, and database server are connected over a shared network, and wherein the web server is connected to the database server over a web connection. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 18)
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7. A computer based process for managing quality of electrical equipment gages and control devices, the process comprising:
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providing a network supporting operator stations and servers;
manually inputting a selection of critical to quality factors into a first operator station;
sending, over the network, the selection of critical to quality factors to an application server;
configuring the critical to quality factors in the application server;
storing configured critical to quality factors in a local database stored in a database server;
connecting electrical equipment to be monitored on a quality basis to a second operator station;
collecting data from the electrical equipment into the second operator station;
storing the data from the electrical equipment in the local database;
combining the data from the electrical equipment with the configured critical to quality factors to form process capability data;
sending the process capability data from the database server to a capability warehouse in a web server;
updating an entitlement database embedded in the capability warehouse;
sending new schema information from the entitlement database to the local database; and
,reporting information from the local database to the first operator station. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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19. A quality management system comprising:
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a first operator station adapted to receive manual entry operations;
a second operator station adapted to receive data from gages, test equipment, control devices, and power monitoring devices;
at least one gage or control device electrically connected to the second operator station;
an application server storing a first program for setting up customer quality information, a second program for generating reports, a third program for logging to a database, and a fourth program for maintaining events;
a database server storing a local database including critical to quality information organized in flowdowns, each flowdown including a listing of critical to quality factors for a customer, each factor containing a subset of issues relevant to the factor, each issue containing a subset of features relevant to the issue; and
,a web server storing a capability warehouse, wherein the first operator station, second operator station, application server, and database server are connected over a shared network, and wherein the web server is connected to the database server over a web connection. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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