Automated Quality Event Form Pre-Filling via Sensor Beacons
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Solution Overview
Problem
Manual quality event filing in quality management tools is laborious, prone to user error, and inefficient, as it requires extensive form filling and data entry.
Innovation Solution
Integration of connected beacons with a quality management solution mobile application to automatically trigger and pre-fill quality event forms based on environmental and user data, reducing the need for manual entry.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual quality event filing is used, then users can report quality events, but the process is laborious and prone to user error due to extensive form filling and data entry
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically collecting environmental data from sensors and user data from beacons before the quality event filing process begins. This pre-collection and pre-processing of data eliminates the need for manual data entry, thereby improving both data entry accuracy and filing process simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The quality event form serves itself by automatically populating fields with data from environmental sensors and user profiles. The system uses feedback loops where sensor data triggers form generation, and the form automatically fills itself with relevant information, reducing human intervention and minimizing errors.
2Productivity
If manual data entry is required, then quality events can be logged, but time is lost due to extensive form filling
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary data collection and processing by continuously monitoring environmental parameters and user information through integrated beacons and sensors. When a quality event occurs, the form is already prepared with pre-collected data, eliminating the time-consuming manual data entry process and improving event filing speed.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical system of manual data entry with an automated electronic system. Sensors, beacons, and processors work together to automatically collect, process, and input data into the quality event form, substituting human manual operations with automated technological processes that significantly reduce time loss.
3Reliability
If automated systems are used to pre-fill forms, then user error is reduced, but device complexity increases due to integration of beacons and sensors
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs universal beacons and sensors that serve multiple functions: they track user presence, collect environmental data, identify quality events, and trigger form generation. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate dedicated devices for each task, thereby managing system integration complexity while maintaining high data entry accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a centralized processing system that acts as an intermediary between various beacons, sensors, and the quality event filing platform. This intermediary manages data flow, coordinates between different components, and handles the complexity of integration, allowing individual components to remain relatively simple while achieving accurate automated form filling.
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AI summary
A system and method is disclosed for automatically triggering a quality event filing in a monitored area, comprising: receiving incoming data from a plurality of connected devices in the monitored area, the incoming data including environmental data of the monitored area and user data of at least one user in the monitored area; determining, by the at least one processor, whether the incoming data is indicative of the occurrence of at least one quality event in the monitored area; and upon a determination that the incoming data is indicative of at least one quality event, generating, by the at least one processor, a quality event form with form data pre-filled, and transmitting the quality event form to a graphical user interface of a user device of at least one user in the monitored area.