Facility Performance Dashboard with Composite Scoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Organizations face challenges in organizing and comparing data across multiple facilities due to varying data collection methods and formats, making it difficult to assess relative performance effectively.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for generating user interfaces that present performance metrics by aggregating data from facilities, calculating a composite score based on multiple metrics such as incident rate, performance indicator, turnover indicator, labor indicator, and overtime indicator, and displaying this information in a dashboard format, with color-coding to represent performance ranges.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If data is collected from multiple facilities in different formats and ways, then comprehensive facility data is obtained, but it becomes difficult to organize and compare the data across facilities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms diverse facility data into a standardized format by converting different data types (incident rates, performance indicators, turnover indicators, labor indicators, overtime indicators) into a common metric system. This allows apples-to-apples comparison across facilities while preserving the comprehensive nature of the collected data.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent divides the complex data organization task into manageable segments by creating separate processing streams for different data types (safety data, performance data, labor data). Each segment is processed independently through standardized transformation rules, then reassembled into a unified dashboard view.
2Loss of information
If detailed data from multiple facilities is presented, then comprehensive information is provided, but users cannot quickly assess relative performance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies color-coding to visual elements in the dashboard to encode performance levels. Facilities are displayed with color indicators (e.g., green for high performance, yellow for medium, red for low) that allow users to instantly grasp relative performance across multiple facilities without reading detailed numerical data for each one.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a visual dimension to the data presentation by using graphical elements, charts, and color gradients to represent performance metrics. This transforms one-dimensional numerical data into two-dimensional visual displays that can be scanned and compared much more rapidly by the human eye.
3Measurement precision
If composite scores are calculated based on multiple metrics, then overall facility performance is measured, but calculation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple performance metrics (incident rates, performance indicators, turnover indicators, labor indicators, overtime indicators) into a single composite score for each facility. This consolidation uses weighted averaging or similar aggregation methods to combine the metrics, providing a precise overall performance measurement while simplifying the final output.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal composite score formula that can be applied across all facilities regardless of their specific characteristics. This multi-functional calculation method works for diverse facility types and metrics, standardizing the complexity level while maintaining measurement precision through consistent application of the same computational approach.
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AI summary
The subject matter of this specification generally relates to measuring the performance of facilities and generating user interfaces that present the performance. In one aspect, a method includes detecting, at a user interface of an application and based on data received from a device on which the application is executing, a first selection of a particular facility. In response to detecting the first selection, data that causes presentation of a dashboard user interface that includes a summary of information for the particular facility is provided. The summary includes a composite score for the particular facility that is computed based on multiple metrics for the particular facility and a value for each metric. In response to detecting a second selection of one or the metrics at the dashboard user interface, data that causes presentation of a second user interface that includes a detailed view of the one metric is provided.