Display evaluations in dashboards

The results of your analysis in PPM and Minitab® can be integrated into Performance Dashboard. Particularly in the control phase, the automatic measurement of data that this brings ensures that the improvements resulting from the Six Sigma project can be continuously verified, e.g., by calling up current control charts to evaluate the process. This allows the Six Sigma results to be communicated throughout the company.

The procedure for integrating the calculated Cpk measure into Performance Dashboard is as follows.

Prerequisite

You have defined a favorite for the Minitab® Cpk measure as described in chapter Process capability analysis and saved it in the Demo path Six Sigma favorites folder.

Procedure

  1. Use the runppmminitab command line program to create an XML output file containing the calculated Cpk value.

    Example

    runppmminitab -user system -password manager -client umg -favoritefolder "\Demo Path SixSigma"

    (See chapter Run Minitab® using the command line)

  2. Import the values of the Minitab® Cpk measure to PPM.

    See chapter Use a Minitab® measure in PPM.

  3. In Performance Dashboard Builder, create another measure query for the Minitab® Cpk measure under the Billing process and link it to the corresponding favorite.
  4. Assign the Minitab® evaluation graphics created to this measure query, i.e., the process capability analysis chart and the control chart.

The Minitab® measure and the selected evaluation graphics will then be available for displaying in Performance Dashboard.

For continuous monitoring, you should carry out steps 1. to 3. described here at regular intervals and create the required current evaluation graphics.

When you query evaluations in Performance Dashboard, the corresponding measure values and graphics are automatically updated and displayed.

Example: Minitab® evaluations in Performance Dashboard

s_ppm_sixsigma_APD

Please refer to the Performance Dashboard User Guide for detailed information on how to use PPM as a source data system for Performance Dashboard and how to configure Performance Dashboards.

See also

Chapter Display Minitab® evaluations in dashboards