Using a Minitab® measure in PPM

You want to use the results of the Minitab® evaluations for the Cpk measure for your analyses in PPM.

To do this, you need to export the evaluation results of the Cpk measure, convert them to a PPM PIKI format and then import the data to PPM as user-defined process instance-independent measure values.

You can use the Xalan conversion program to convert the XML output file to a user-defined process instance-independent measure import file. Alternatively, for the purposes of this example, you can use the minitabpikitransformer command line program created for the UMG demo database.

You also require a project-specific xslt script to perform the conversion.

The xslt script Template.xslt is located in the directory custom\umg\xslt of the installed UMG demo database of your PPM installation.

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.

The Cpk measure has already been created in PPM and assigned to the Billing process type in the process tree.

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. Use the Minitab® XML output file containing the Cpk value to create a PIKI import file (XML file).

    To do this, enter the paths to the Minitab® XML output file, the xslt script, and the PIKI import file (in this case the XML output file) in the Xalan conversion program.

  3. Import the PIKI import file into PPM using the runpikidata command line program.

The values of the Minitab® Cpk measure will then be available to you for further analysis in PPM. You can display the values of the Cpk measure as a list in the Configuration module under Data input.

Tip

Please refer to the PPM data import technical reference for information on how to create measures in PPM and how to import data.