Software targets Six Sigma professionals.
Press Release Summary:
Quality Companion v2 helps Six Sigma teams plan, execute, document, and report on their projects. It offers coach function for guidance and linked tools for analysis and presentations. Project Roadmap(TM) feature allows professionals to plan out phases in detail and assign built-in soft tools to assist with each task. Data sharing ability enables information entered in one tool to populate appropriate fields in other tools, without retyping.
Original Press Release:
Minitab Launches Quality Companion 2 for Six Sigma Professionals
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Aug. 16 / - Minitab Inc. today announced the release of Quality Companion 2 by Minitab(TM), process improvement software designed specifically to help Six Sigma professionals manage and execute their projects.
The new product complements the company's flagship product, Minitab® Statistical Software, which professionals worldwide rely on to tackle the sophisticated statistical data analysis at the heart of every Six Sigma project.
Quality Companion 2 simplifies the many other challenges involved in quality improvement, and helps teams plan, execute, document and report on their projects. It brings together three elements critical to Six Sigma success: organization, practical tools, and expert guidance.
"We created Quality Companion to help professionals get through their projects faster, more efficiently, and with less aggravation," says J.-P. Mulley, Minitab product planning manager. "It makes it easier for companies to achieve the maximum benefit from their quality improvement programs."
Quality Companion helps companies implement process improvement initiatives by:
o streamlining project workflow and making tasks easier
o guiding Six Sigma Green Belts and Black Belts through their projects
from start to finish
o providing linked tools that enhance analysis, reporting, and presentations
o helping Master Black Belts support their teams efficiently
o making it easy for Champions to evaluate projects and report successes
o standardizing projects throughout the organization
At the start of a project, Quality Companion's Project Roadmap(TM) feature lets professionals plan out every phase in detail, then assign built-in "soft" tools to assist with each task. These tools help team members brainstorm, map processes, conduct analyses, complete forms and reports, and more. With Quality Companion's data-sharing ability, the information they enter in one tool populates the appropriate fields in other tools, with no retyping.
When team members have questions, they can consult the software's Coach function for guidance about what tool to use and how to use it - advice developed by Master Black Belts with extensive, real-world deployment experience. Quality Companion also features analysis capture tools that help summarize the results of Six Sigma statistical analyses in a consistent way, making reports easier to follow and providing structure and guidance to novice Minitab users.
Quality Companion includes a tool that lets professionals create and deliver great-looking presentations from inside the application. When the project is concluded, Quality Companion maintains all related documents in one easy-to-manage file, making it simple to archive and painless to review detailed project information at a future date.
Even organizations with established improvement initiatives can benefit from Quality Companion's abilities. "A company's program may be showing results, but using the right tools expands the range and depth of that success," Mulley says. "Companion makes project tasks faster and easier to complete, which means more projects get done thoroughly and efficiently, resulting in greater savings and ultimately higher profits.
"Companies put tremendous resources into quality improvement, and Quality Companion helps ensure they get the best return on that investment."
Minitab offers an online tour of Quality Companion 2 at minitab.com/companion. A free, 30-day trial version is also available at the Web site or by contacting the Minitab sales department at 1-800-448-3555.
About Minitab
Minitab Inc. is one of the world's leading developers of statistical analysis and process improvement software for academic and commercial users worldwide. Minitab Statistical Software is the preferred data analysis software for businesses of all sizes and is used in more than 80 countries by thousands of distinguished companies, including Toshiba, 3M, Honeywell International, Wachovia, DuPont, Haemonetics Corporation, Samsung and leading Six Sigma consultants.
Minitab has been used to implement virtually every major Six Sigma quality improvement initiative around the world, and is the software educators use to teach statistics in over 4,000 colleges and universities worldwide.
Minitab Inc., headquartered in State College, Pa., operates offices in the United Kingdom and France and has additional representatives throughout the world.
Source: Minitab Inc.
CONTACT:
Eston Martz
Minitab Inc.,
PublicRelations@minitab.com
Web site: http://www.minitab.com/
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