Quality review management system with plug-ins

摘要

A quality review management system 112 and method is used to analyse the operation of manufacturing processes within a plant 110 based on data collected by various data sources in the plant, such as batch executive applications 22, to automatically detect, store, and display exceptions within those processes for use by a quality review engineer to determine if the process operation meets certain quality standards. The quality review management system may include a configuration application 120 that enables a user to create one or more exception rules and includes an exception engine 122 that analyses process data using the rules to detect one or more exceptions within the process, and a review application 128 that enables quality review personnel to review each determined exception for resolution purposes. The system also includes a plug-in module communicatively connected to an external data source and to the exception engine, wherein the plug-in module receives data from the external data source, analyses the data from the external data source and sends external information regarding the external data source to the exception engine.