SIX SIGMA & THE LEAN FACTORY

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SIX SIGMA & THE LEAN FACTORY

Jörg Houpert & Rob PorettiCube-Tec North America

Approaches for Media Ingest and Processing

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What is Six Sigma?

Six Sigma & The Lean Factory

A business management strategy employed to improve performance, value and reliability.

It produces these results by focusing on the elimination of defects – errors.

Six Sigma is a statistical term that defines to Six Standard Deviations – is 99.99966% or equating to 3.47 defects per million “opportunities”.

Tangible results: reduces costs through waste reduction, work flow efficiency gains, quality improvement, etc.

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Six Sigma in an Archive…


3.47 defects / million “Opportunities”

100 Opportunities / Object

1,000,000 Objects = 100,000,000 Opportunities

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Six Sigma in an Archive…


A relatively small amount of errors creates an unmanageable number of problems.

A factory approach produces tangible benefits: Increases man-power efficiencies. Minimizes the migration costs. Quality control is improved.

The PrestoSpace project estimated substantial savings over the life-time of the digitization project.

100,000,0001% = 1,000,0000.1% = 100,000

0.01% = 10,000

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What is a Lean Factory?


“Lean” is a strategy that focuses on the elimination of waste so that each step in a work flow process has maximum value.

In an archive facility, this optimization is used to Maximize ingest time Minimize errors Automate processes Supervise workflows Provide real-time reporting systems

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Lean Six Sigma Methodology in the Archive


“Lean Six Sigma” simply applies Lean Factory strategies in order to extract Six Sigma performance.

Define Workflows: a recursive process of measurement, analysis and then creating fault tolerant processes, is critical to minimizing errors.

Deploy Solutions: Decision support systems, real-time metrics, and automated processing are required.

Define

Measure

Analyze

Design

Verify

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Sound & Vision Overview


Sound & Vision – 700,000 hours of television, radio, music and film, Sound & Vision is one of the largest audio-visual archives in Europe.

Different collections / different formats: Preservation standards. Metadata requirements. Storage spaces.

All collections are digitized in parallel.

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Sound & Vision - Ingest

Cube-Tec International – Technical Overview

The largest part of Sound & Vision’s aural heritage is currently stored on analog quarter-inch tapes and R-DAT cassettes.

Cube-Tec delivered 4 QUADRIGA workstations for the parallel ingest of material from 32 tape machines.

16 Telefunken M15A reel-to-reel machines and 16 Sony DAT-Recorders are used for playback and controlled by four operators.

All the Telefunken machines were modified by Cube-Tec with the new universal Opto-Sensor hardware to detect and document torn tape, bad splices and separation tape with a time-code stamp.

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Sound & Vision –Automated Post Processing


In addition to the analog archive, there is also a backlog of nearly 30 terabytes of digital files that must be quality checked and missing technical metadata to be inserted.

As DOBBIN runs 24/7, undesignated processing time will be used to inspect the pre-digitized backlog.

Processing the backlog has become an automated job. Process rules are individually defined in the DOBBIN Rendering Farm to classify the technical quality of each file.

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Sound & Vision – Workflow Management


Cube-Tec and the audio digitizing team at Sound and Vision have developed a highly optimized workgroup solution based on Cube-Workflow.

Cube-Workflow is fully integrated with the existing IT infra-structure, which includes a cataloguing system and an external storage-provider (Technicolor). Cube-Workflow controls the QUADRIGA and DOBBIN audio and metadata process chain.

Cube-Workflow ensures that each member of the archive group has access to all necessary information available throughout the process - ensuring the best possible work.

Cube-Workflow streamlines the flow of work and detects and prevents operating errors. The project leader has a real-time detailed overview of the progress of the work and any special cases that have been flagged.

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Cube-Tec Archiving Suite


Friendly, purpose-built digitization engine.

Import modules for popular legacy media formats.

Multiple stream ingest with integrated monitor.

Emphasis on audio quality and metadata.

Metadata driven workflow management & supervision software.

Import/Export XML metadata - web-service integration with Cube-Tec and 3rd party products.

Employs Business Process Model framework.

Scalable distributed batch processor.

Audio and metadata processing engine.

Simple graphical interface for creating workflow processes.

Powerful decision making. Reporting

QUADRIGA DOBBINCUBE WORKFLOW

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Integration


LegacyDatabase

AssetManagement

System

QUADRIGA DOBBIN AUDIOCUBE

CUBE WORK-FLOW

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Six Sigma & The Lean FactoryCube-Workflow

Fully integrated into existing IT infra-structures, including cataloguing systems and external storage systems…

A collaboration environment that supports structured/unstructured communication processes for definable roles through ad-hoc messaging.

Ensures that team members have access to all necessary information available throughout the work-process, streamlining workflows and error detection.

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Custom Designed for your Facility


Cube Workflow connects to your DBMS or Asset Management System.

Underlying engine defined by Business Process Modeling. Easy to modify – easy to extend.

User interface uses internet client – easily customizable and updateable. Simplifies deployment and accessible via the internet.

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Driven by Metadata


Cube Workflow automatically generates work-order processes for QUADRIGA and Dobbin systems.

Exchanges process service information with Dobbin and QUADRIGA. Process chains can be dynamic.

Supervises scheduled jobs and traces production issues using a bi-directional messaging system.

Time-line based statistical information can be viewed in the Cube-Workflow Dashboard.

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QUADRIGA


Efficient, purpose-built ingest system. One workstation can provide up to

eight parallel ingest streams simultaneously.

Audio stream supervision and complete quality analysis.

Sophisticated transport and monitoring systems built for various media formats

Integrated workflows with Cube-Workflows and Dobbin.

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QUADRIGA: State-of-the-Art Ingest


Multi-Machine Recording

Multi-Speed Recording

Multi-Channel Recording

Dual-Direction

Multi-format

Observation

Integration

File Security

Automated Reports and Self Logging

Scalable

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Operator Managing 8 Parallel Ingest Streams


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Single Operator up to 64 Ingest Streams


16 Tape Decks under one operator control…

2x Speed + Simultaneous FWD/REV =

64x

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Dobbin: Automate. Anything.


Dobbin is a master of audio file and metadata automation. A suite of software tools that allow for the creation of dynamic, adaptive, and

automated processes. Delegates processes to a powerful distributed processing engine. Easily

scalable. Generates metadata rich reports with live links to media assets. Easy to use tools and the ultimate in flexibility. Drag n’ drop your workflows to

connect processes using virtual audio, logic or metadata wiring. Trigger jobs from file creation, file movement, metadata criteria, statistical

analysis, external applications or manually.

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The Dobbin Tool Set


Content AnalysisAutomatic quality analysis for Analog and Digital errors. Complete logging.

ProcessingComprehensive re-mastering restoration and re-formatting tools.

File ConversionConvert any PCM format. Integrate metadata for any supported format.

File SecurityFSC , MD5, and SHA integrity tools.

File-based & Psycho-Acoustic Correlators.

Media File Encodingmp2/3, AAC, DD, DTS, AC3, WMA, etc. MXF, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MPEG TS & PS.

Utilities & ToolsComplete logic tools. Integrates 3rd party

applications and scripts.

New Product Announcement: JPEG 2000 lossy and lossless profiles.

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Create Powerful Workflows …Simply


The Job Designer Drag and drop your workflows.

Connect processes using virtual audio, logic or metadata wiring.

Performs syntactic wiring check. Test newly created jobs with a single file.

Trigger jobs from file creation, file movement, metadata criteria, statistical analysis, external applications or manually.

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Supervise Concurrent Jobs


The Job Manager: Real- time status of each job progress. Re-prioritize job queue on-the-fly.

Accurate job-time estimates. Sorting and filtering of job list by any

criteria. Complete logging of all workflow

processes. Messaging service to Cube-Workflow

for on-line updates

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Automated Drill-Down Reporting


The Result Viewer: Complete reporting with drill-

down capability and integrated waveform displays.

Sorting and intelligent filtering of all events. Events displayed on graphical timeline along with audio image.

Uses web technologies – available at any connected PC. Exchanges process service information with other Cube-Tec products.

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View Your Results… and then Listen to Them!


The Event Player: Launch the BWF player from your

web-page with integrated event list and waveform graphical display.

List can re-populate with any event-type and each item can be used to locate with pre-roll.

Built in sample-rate converter provides audio playback on any computer sound card.

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Transform Your Data


Report System: XML reports are styled using XSLT.

Templates are provided for viewing and printing. Easily customizable.

Reports can display a wide range of information and can include connection to external data.

Can be stored as intranet resource for archive group stakeholders.

Result Viewer, Event Player and Reports can be installed on any PC.

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Build In Your Intelligence


The Rule Editor: A utility for creating rules used by

modules performing decisions. Completely integrates meta-data

schema from the BWF and the complete Cube-Tec software suite.

Drag-and-Drop interface facilitates simple and error-free rule creation.

Rules are loaded and stored into a module from Job Designer.

Rules are the intelligence that drive dynamic and adaptive workflows.

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Summary


There are to many opportunities for errors in a large archive As we increase throughput by employing factory-type strategies – example:

parallel ingest – the error opportunities are increased. Supervision, automation, real-time reporting systems and clearly defined

workflows are all required to minimize errors and improve quality control. Cube-Tec Tools have been carefully developed to meet the challenges of Six

Sigma Lean Factory preservation. Lillyputtans versus workflow management systems.

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In a joint effort, Grass Valley and Cube-Tec have developed an interface between the K2 AppServer and the Dobbin Audio Rendering Farm.

This interface provides direct access to the audio tracks stored on K2, without the need to unwrap the MXF container first.

Result: a highly efficient read / write exchange for the audio essence.

Benefits: Dobbin’s rich set of audio processes are available Grass Valley customers.

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Dobbin Video


Dobbin Tools: Encoders and decoders Wrapping tools such as MXF Video Analysis Video Restoration

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Thank-you!

?Jörg Houpert & Rob PorettiCube-Tec North America

IASA/AMIA 2010Jörg Houpert & Rob PorettiCube-Tec North America

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