Instantis® Six Sigma Project Lifecycle Management System
Instantis® Six Sigma Project Lifecycle Management (PLM) System delivers unmatched Six Sigma productivity and reporting. With this comprehensive and easy-to-use system, you can fully support your organization's six sigma and other quality initiatives with an end-to-end software solution.
The Instantis® Six Sigma PLM System significantly enhances the project tracking functionality needs of web-enabled six sigma and other quality initiatives. It delivers a comprehensive, integrated project and program tracking solution to manage teams and resources, knowledge transfer and training, methodology and project lifecycle, financials and management reporting.
Features and Benefits
- Instantis® Six Sigma PLM System runs as a platform-independent web application.
- Project Task & Deliverables Tracking™ ensures consistency in application of the specific project methodology (six sigma DMAIC or other quality project roadmap) across project teams in the organization.
- The Instantis® PLM System can recognize an unlimited number of project types (Six Sigma, Lean, Kaizen, APQP, etc.) and an unlimited number of Roadmaps (DMAIC, DMADV, IDOV, DMAIIC, DFSS, Just Do It, etc.).
- Instantis® Idea Portal™ is a web-based application that collects new project ideas from all parts of an organization, evaluates those ideas, and advances them to full-fledged six sigma and other quality projects.
- Idea Portal™ includes automated idea capture, routing, evaluation and weighted scoring, prioritization, chartering and integration into the PLM System.
- Project Alert Messenger™ eliminates the need for individuals to manually send out email notifications and alerts, and ensures that projects stay on track, and all issues are resolved as soon as possible by those best equipped to resolve them.
- Reports Dashboard™ provides customizable and improved visibility into various project types (six sigma DMAIC or other quality project roadmap) with executive summary reports and unlimited drill-down capability.
- Reports can be generated by person, by location, by savings of project, by business division and by many other reporting parameters.
- Financial Manager™ provides the ability to automatically track the costs and savings of individual projects or any rolled-up collection or grouping of projects. At every stage, executives may be provided with a snapshot of the health of a project, a department or an entire organization - and be made aware of the highest impact projects and project areas.
- Global Team Manager™ enables the tracking of all six sigma and other quality and program management practitioners, including their titles, current assignments and tasks, contact information, skill sets and allowed access to different portions and views of the data.
- Document & Tools Manager™ enables companies to centralize project knowledge and have it easily accessible across the greater enterprise. There are three levels of document management in the Instantis® Six Sigma PLM.
- Within the Document &Tools Manager™, project team members are able to access templates affiliated with specific tasks and deliverables in the project roadmap, reducing time wasted searching for correct templates and standardizing work across projects.
- Within the Document & Tools Manager™, project team members are able to easily upload various project-specific documents to the system for review by others and to maintain documentation for sharing best practices.
- The Documents & Tools Manager™ can include any type of document having a valid file extension (.doc, .xls, .ppt, etc.) that can be viewed on a local PC. (The associated PC application must be installed on the local PC to enable the user to view the document).
- Roles and permissions within Instantis® enable project- or role-based access to the various modules of the PLM system. Users are able to view information, add and/or update various types of data in the system based on their assigned permissions.
- Users can have multiple permissions based on the individual project type. This set of permissions is fully configurable and customizable.
- Registered users access the Instantis® Six Sigma PLM System via their own unique Login ID and Password through a web login screen. The Login ID and Password are authenticated from either LDAP, Active Directory, or internally in the system for complete security.