Minitab Engage
The Comprehensive Project Management Solution for the Quality Improvement Process
Minitab Engage is a hybrid application consisting of Engage (Desktop) and additional applications in the “Engage” cloud. It provides your teams with everything needed to optimize and standardize your process improvement program and extends Engage (Desktop) with customizable Dashboards, individual workflow management, a project repository, the design center and user management in the Cloud.
Minitab Engage is a dynamic project management solution that combines the essential software tools of a quality improvement process in an integrated and customizable software environment. It is specifically designed to facilitate the planning, organization, implementation and reporting tasks of general development projects, quality improvement projects and projects related to Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma. With its customizable project processes, Engage can be adapted to any company standard or a company standard can be defined in the handling of projects.
Areas of Applications
- Quality improvement processes
- Any structured project management
- Six Sigma projects
- Design For Six Sigma (DFSS projects)
- Lean Six Sigma projects
- Kaizen projects
- TRIZ projects
- Continuous improvement projects (CIP)
Advantages of a Cloud Solution
- Centrally controlled project management system
- Real-time KPI for all ongoing projects
- Automated reporting across multiple projects
- Real-time updating
- User management
- Automated backup
- Automated e-mail notifications, e.g. for new projects or when milestones are reached
Project management also Across Projects
With the cloud, a central location is defined in which the projects are managed. The main KPIs (key performance indicators) for all projects can be visualized in the associated dashboard so that management always has a company-wide overview of the current status. The associated user role management allows a hierarchical approach. The templates to be used can be defined centrally to ensure corporate identity and uniform work for all project teams. The workflow environment allows projects to be prioritized and selected in advance according to objective criteria.
Project Management with a Common Thread, the Roadmap
Roadmaps™ can be used to structure the approach in the projects and thus provide a common thread. This allows the workflow in each project to be predefined and adapted or predefined to company-specific standards. There are several such predefined roadmaps (all of which can be modified), including some for the DMAIC cycle used in Six Sigma quality strategies, for example. Data entered in one tool is available for the entire project. This guarantees fast work with consistent data and fewer errors. Most tools can be customized to create your own templates.
Project Management as a Team Project
Engage makes it possible to effectively exchange information within the project team and to standardize and thus simplify project processes and their documentation. The software tools are used in a uniform manner and can communicate with each other. To ensure that team communication runs smoothly, roles and rights can be assigned so that only the components are processed that are required by the respective person.
Project Management as an Overall Concept
Process visualization, the creation of forms or the organization of meetings - to name just a few tasks - follow an overall concept that each company can define for itself. All elements and data belonging to the project are stored in a project file. This approach saves time in the administration and organization of the improvement process.
Lean in Application – Simplifying Your Own Project Work and Management
All tools used in Engage store important information in the project centrally. This means that changes can be made quickly with a single action. Once information has been entered, it can be accessed directly elsewhere. For example, results from a flow chart or brainstorming session can be derived directly into an FMEA. Associated documents and files can be saved directly in the project or linked to it.
A Platform for Mapping all Conceivable Solutions
Whether Six Sigma, Design For Six Sigma (DFSS), Lean, Kaizen, 8D, TRIZ, Continuous Improvement Projects (CIP) or a simple "Just Do It" project - with the roadmap in Engage, projects can be divided into phases in such a way that they follow the corresponding philosophy. In addition to numerous specifications, the roadmap can also be individually adapted to the company's own philosophy and made available as a template. This enables Engage to cover all conceivable solution approaches.
Further details about Lean Six Sigma, Design For Six Sigma, Lean
Over 100 of the Most Common Project Tools Individually Customized
With the installation of Engage, the typical project tools of various solution approaches are available. These can be used as part of any project as well as on their own. The results of all tools can be exported directly as PDF files.
It is also easy to create your own tools. Existing tools can also be adapted in order to expand them, streamline them or adapt them to your own corporate identity. All new developments can then be saved directly as a template and made centrally available to the user group.
| Value Stream Mapping | Monte Carlo Simulation | FMEA |
|---|---|---|
| The movement of materials and data through a company is visualized. The modernization of processes creates added value that meets customer expectations. | Monte Carlo simulation is used to describe, understand and optimize a product or process. | Potential causes of a product or process failure are identified, the resulting effects are forecast and the actions required to counteract these effects are prioritized. |
| Quality Function Deployment | Brainstorming Tools | Process Mapping |
| With the fully integrated functions Pairwise Comparison Matrix, Houses of Quality and Design Scorecards, a smooth flowdown of requirements can be ensured. | Fishbone diagrams and idea maps can be used to identify all relevant elements of a process and determine the scope of complex projects more precisely. | The creation of high-quality and detailed flowcharts helps users to understand and communicate all activities in a process. |
Monte Carlo Simulation
The Monte Carlo simulation in Minitab Engage is a powerful tool for product and process improvement. Realistic models can be easily created or transferred from Minitab (from regression, ANOVA or DoE). Simulation results are displayed clearly. The integrated parameter optimization allows you to find the optimal settings for input parameters. The sensitivity analysis has an intelligent, interactive design that can be used to examine the effect of an input’s variation on the output’s variation. In addition to the optimization of models directly based on waste, you can also define specification limits (statistical tolerance analysis).
Integration of Minitab
With the combination of Minitab (the statistical analysis software) and Engage, team members (e.g. Black Belts, Green Belts, ...) of improvement projects get a complete solution to run projects with maximum efficiency, as all essential data is kept in a unified, multi-user environment. Projects can be started with the help of tools in Engage. They can maintain the overview and use Minitab to analyse data precisely at critical points, perform measurement system analyses (Gage R&R), process capability analyses and DoE (Design of Experiments). Both software packages together optimize every quality campaign.
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