Patent ID: 7702656

Claim:
A quality management system for utilizing dynamic multi-dimensional commodity modeling, comprising: a data collection component operable for collecting raw data; a dynamic multi-dimensional commodity model component, comprising a plurality of dimensions and attributes, the dimensions and attributes are dynamically alterable via the dynamic multi-dimensional commodity model component; a commodity tree generated by the dynamic multi-dimensional commodity model component; a closed loop/corrective action component operable for resolving nonconformance issues resulting from analysis of the raw data and commodity tree; and an analytic engine in communication with the data collection component, the multi-dimensional commodity model component, and the closed loop/corrective action component, the analytic engine performing; receiving the raw data from the data collection component; receiving the commodity tree; performing analytics on the raw data according to rules defined by the commodity tree; transmitting any nonconformance data resulting from performing the analytics to the closed loop/correction action component; and resolving any identified nonconformances; wherein generating the commodity tree comprises: creating a commodity hierarchy data structure comprising: at least one top level node; and at least one leaf node dependent upon said at least one top level node; a commodity constituent model created by assigning attributes to nodes in the hierarchy, the attributes sharing uniform characteristics and used in the analytics performed by the analytic engine; and a second commodity constituent model created by selectively assigning at least one dimensional attribute to a node in the hierarchy that is used in the analytics performed by the analytic engine; wherein dependent nodes inherit dimensional attributes assigned to corresponding upper level nodes; and wherein the dimensional attributes are dynamically alterable during instantiation of the analytics engine via the dynamic multi-dimensional commodity model component.