the software tools we use

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	Cognition Cockpit manages the many interrelationships between design factors as they relate to customer requirements. As an integral part of any Design for Six Sigma effort, this software allows for the exploration of variation at the lowest level in a design and how it statistically translates into what the customer can expect. These relationships are almost impossible to embrace with traditional spreadsheets and databases, let alone manually. COGNITION is a GENESIS PARTNER

	As its name implies, Crystal Ball is a (powerful) predictive tool utilizing Monte Carlo Simulation. This is especially important when input variables can fluctuate with not-so-perfect "textbook curves," allowing one to model probable outputs via random sampling of input data. Many thousands of trials may be executed within a few seconds, allowing for realistic simulations of what will happen in the proverbial "real world." CRYSTAL BALL is a GENESIS PARTNER

	MiniTab is the main statistical software employed at Genesis, used to generate many of our analyses. This product performs a multitude of tasks, ranging anywhere from the basics through multi-variate analysis, utilizing an intuitive spreadsheet-like format for data entry.

	Mathcad is a general mathematics software offering with tools for Calculus, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, etc. Also available are task-specific modules, including Signal Processing, Data Analysis, and Image Analysis (which module is used by Genesis for vision-based solutions). Solutions are expressed numerically or symbolically.

	Miner3D is a very potent data visualization tool, allowing one to examine the relationships between six datasets simultaneously. This is done via the "normal" x, y, and z axes, along with color, size, and labels. Given the first step in any data analysis should be visualization, this tool is invaluable for complicated problems. As an added benefit it also performs k-means clustering, which is very important in identifying multi-variate data groups.

	Microsoft Excel is known as a spreadsheet tool, but it is capable of so much more, even statistical calculations. Almost all Genesis analyses include this mainstay of calculations, as Excel is very flexible, in addition to being extremely powerful. In fact the Genesis Innovation Online Statistics Calculator is based upon Excel.