Quality Companion 3

Define the steps—both value added and non value added—required to produce a product or service that meets customer expectations. Identify Lean Six Sigma improvement opportunities and pinpoint sources of waste. Track important variables such as inventory, takt time, and cycle time, among others. Establish a current state map that leads to an improved future state map. Improve your manufacturing, supply chain, service-related, healthcare, software development, or product development processes.

Maintain the equity you have in your Visio-generated process maps by importing them into Quality Companion. Evolve them further by adding shared X, Y and Lean variables directly to shapes and connectors and updating them from a single location.

Track your data more effectively by creating your own data categories and fields, managing them from a single location, and sharing them automatically throughout your entire project.

Make tracking data easier for everyone in your company by exporting your data definitions or creating standard templates that contain custom categories and fields.

The updated Dashboard expands your ability to view summary information of all your projects.

• Choose what information to display, including data from any custom category and field you created.
• View and manage all your tasks, and click through individual projects to open them and continue working.
• Export summarized data to capture and archive the status of any project.
• Import summarized data into Minitab for ongoing, wide-scale project analysis.
• Save and export your Dashboard view settings so everyone on your team has the same perspective on your data.
• Build summary views more quickly – the Dashboard provides faster scanning of your local and network drives and the ability to cancel scans.

Use the updated Project Manager to enter, review and edit all the data associated with your project, including financial data and custom data categories. Any changes you make in the Project Manager area are shared throughout the project.

Right-click on your project name and quickly access Detailed Project Data, Project Summary Data, Financial Data and Capability Metrics.

Easily standardize how variables appear in your Process Maps.

Brainstorm more effectively using new templates for DOE Fishbones, 8P’s and 4S’s.

Find and open user-defined templates more easily.

Download additional free templates updated for Quality Companion 3.

Open multiple forms from the “create new form” dialog by shift-clicking on each one.

Create and improve cross-functional Process Maps more easily.

Hide Toolbars when not in use.

Use standard spreadsheet syntax when working in Quality Companion’s financial functions and build formulas with point-and-click ease.

Create better Tables in Forms by spacing rows and columns evenly and setting row and column size.