MINITAB RELEASES QUALITY COMPANION® 3 PROCESS IMPROVEMENT SOFTWARE

Quality Companion is an all-in-one package that complements the company’s flagship product, Minitab® Statistical Software, which companies worldwide use to tackle the statistical data analysis at the heart of every Six Sigma project.

 Quality Companion 3 introduces many new features, including:

The ability to import Microsoft Visio® diagrams
User-created custom data fields and categories
More powerful Project Manager
New brainstorming templates
Many ease-of-use improvements 
Companies including Xerox, Target and BHP Billiton use Quality Companion to manage their improvement projects. Minitab gathered extensive feedback from users to ensure the new capabilities added in Quality Companion 3 help solve real-world challenges.

"If you’re involved in quality improvement, you know that Minitab Statistical Software helps you analyze your data," says Cate Twohill, Minitab product manager. "Now, Quality Companion helps you with everything else."  

Quality Companion makes it easy to outline, complete and present projects. At the start of a project, the Project Roadmap™ helps plot a clear course of action. Adding built-in tools to the Roadmap creates a detailed plan for the entire project—and the means to complete each step.