Patent ID: 7380213

Claim:
A method of processing data stored in a database, comprising: collecting event-based waste and delay records in a manufacturing system wherein each record represents an event and includes a timestamp, an event code, and a measure of pre-manufacturing cost associated with the event and post-manufacturing production loss associated with the event; displaying a report user interface to a user, the user interface defining a plurality of time periods and a plurality of financial report types, wherein at least one of the plurality of financial report types provides an indication of the measure of the pre-manufacturing cost associated with the events within each defined time period and post-manufacturing production loss associated with the events within each defined time period; receiving from the user a selected time period corresponding to one or more of the time periods and a selected report type corresponding to one or more of the report types; and retrieving report data as a function of the selected report type for the selected time period from the data in the database in response to a user command, wherein said retrieved report data includes the collected event-based waste and delay records representing the events within the selected time period and includes, as a function of the selected report type, the measure of pre-manufacturing cost associated with the events within the selected time period and post-manufacturing production loss associated with the events within the selected time period.