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This edition applies to MES15 Portal 1.0 and all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new revisions.
Introduction
The following release notes were created to communicate with external customers the details of changes or enhancements made to the 42Q portal. The release notes are organized by date, with the most recent appearing first. All medically validated versions are denoted with asterisks and appear in blue font (Ex. ***April 2016***). All versions prior to a medically validated version are included in the medically validated packages.
February 9, 2019
Overview: 42Q Non-Medical Monthly Upgrade:
Environments: production scanning, SFDC Config, Shop Order Control, mes-api, Production Workbench, CMMS, Mes-Connector, Print Queue, Label Engine Web Service, Operation Dashboard, MesWEB Central, Mesweb, Conduit.
production-workbench-1.2.22
Bug Fixes:
- AVP steps display in the correct order and map to the corresponding document page
- Prompts sort according to Attribute/Assembly definition
- Users can access work order pages without an extension
- System works as expected when conduit message is empty
API-1.6.5
Enhancement:
- API logic upgraded. SFDC and CMMS can now communicate to place MFG holds.
shop order control-2.11.11
Bug Fixes:
- Panel quantities calculate as expected when deleting unused serials from non-batched Shop Order Releases.
- Users are able to delete Skeleton serial numbers from Unstarted Units in Shop Order Browser.
sfdc-config-2.7.4
New Feature:
- 42Q will place MFG hold on expired tooling equipment based on scanning activity in SFDC via CMMS.
Bug Fixes:
- MFG Line error message has been resolved. Approved users are now able to delete a MFG Line during configuration steps.
- All plants are able to import part numbers entered with lowercase characters. System now converts lowercase PNs to uppercase as expected.
- All quote types (double and single) are supported when attribute definitions are imported on .csv files.
Oracle
- Interface between Oracle and 42Q improved
OperationDashboard-3.3.8
Bug Fixes:
- Target values defined in the Target Maintenance module populate as expected
- System responsiveness improved when network connection is interrupted
Enhancements:
More actions are now available on Operation Dashboard’s main page. Users can now:
- Rename Snapshots directly within text box
- Delete Snapshots with new “trashcan” GUI
- Receive visual feedback with new Loading Bar
- Select all 9 basic widgets via the Default builder
- Customize a Snapshot via the New option
- Validate snapshot selections and save changes in one step (Apply & Save)
New Widget features:
- New widgets combine multiple reports
- New layout screen to create widget dashboard
- Layout screen with 6x6 size
- Global and individual filters
- Datasource type supports both cmmsr and mesr
- Same widget can contain multiple reports/charts
- Text chart added for text displaying
- View widgets with or without Title
Sanm.MSD-configuration-1.0.13
Bug Fixes:
- Data loads without delays.
Enhancement:
- Example images for new widgets available in Operation Dashboard
- System auto-selects data sources based on user’s database.
mes-web-central-3.2.4
New Features:
- Operation Dashboard configuration screen added.
- New tag (Hidden) allows users to hide report columns.
- OEE Reports added.
- Report Dashboard GUI allows users to adjust the number of rows in the widget grid.
- New column (Project) added to Location page
- Profiles renamed “Portal Users” to accommodate external customers
- MesWeb landing page displays settings in accordion layout
Bug Fixes:
- Pagination and Locations now working as expected.
Enhancements:
Additional configuration options allow plants to customize MES Web Reports according to business needs. The following features are now available for modification:
- Projects per Location
- Data Source Types
- Config Keys Table
- Default Reports
- Maps per Locations
- Servers
- Report views
- Dictionary Tables
- Field Tables
- Locations/Roles per User
- Screen Views
Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) added for administrative users:
- Pin icon for mapping locations in 42Q Live,
MESWeb-4.3.4
New Features:
- Unit History report includes Tooling data from CMMS
- Line Monitor shortcut added to the top menu bar, left of user name
- New Screen displays current user’s location by region.
- New tag (Hidden) allows users to hide report columns
- Selected parameters hidden by default
- Multiple locations available in MESWeb application
- New page: Application select
- Users can access Line Monitor from MESWeb
Enhancements:
- Customer Management and Customer Part Mapping synchronize updates
- Users can copy and paste links to clipboard without reloading the screen
- MESWeb summary and help documents accessible from MESWeb home page
Bug Fixes:
The following features are now working as expected:
- Zip files with date format delivered according to defined schedule
- Save Favorite feature
- Schedule servlet interfaces with “miltiplehost”
- Shop Order summaries
event-broker-0.0.7
Bug Fixes:
- Service automatically reestablishes dropped connections.
- Race condition for triggered changes was removed.
- Entries for units in locations 30, 40, and 60 process as expected
New Feature:
- Scanning activity available from CMMS to MES Web.
conduit-1.6.9
Enhancements & Bug Fixes:
- Fixed transaction scoping bug for large multi-transaction requests
- Fixed scanning template issue preventing reconciliation of attribute scan templates
- Allow support for required attributes (e.g. CONDUIT_OPTIONS ATTRIBUTES_REQUIRED=YES)
- Added finisher_executed to the ScannedUnit unit_info blob to better inform the client when a finisher happened they may not be aware of (i.e. via auto command.)
- Implementation of the Command Template mechanism to allow interactive auto commands
- Transition of Scanning Template to Command Template based on attribute definition and assembly component reconciliation
- Added complete macro support, including the ability to directly invoke macros from clients and coalescing multi-command macros into a single result back to client
- Auto commands and scanning template related command templates should only be applied when there is a transaction/scanning unit.
- Now allowing macro references in table and SDE based auto commands
- Implementation of conditional finishers based on configured statuses for particular commands
- Allows the ability to short circuit execution of a transaction when the resultant status matches the configured conditional status
- Support both finisher_on_status and halt_exec_on_status
- Finisher commands will now require refreshing the unit to validate post scan attribute and assembly definitions
- Implemented alternative HTTP/HTTPS server/listener implementation in addition to the still default proxygen libs
- Now caching SDE data to no longer require a lookup and parse per request
- Allow optional caching of attr_defs (experimental)
- Added, then subsequently removed Amazon Kinesis integration
- Added limited support for streaming logs entries to optionally configured Kafka brokers
- Separated the concept of login from the scanning transaction unit(s). Login will now occur only once per request even when N units are being scanned.
- Single transaction override now allows scanning request transaction units in a single round trip for efficiency purposes
mes-connector-webservice-2.0.7
Bug Fix:
- PTS/Conduit interface works as expected. All SN types accepted.
cmms-ws-2.1.0
New CMMS features
- Work Order Flow feature (CMMS Setting) allows plants to customize Work Order checkpoints (e.g. Waiting for Buy Off, Closed, Work In Progress) and permissions (Requestor, Approver) based on asset capabilities
- System automatically changes work order status to overdue when escalation email is sent
- When a Default Assignee is assigned to a maintenance Group, Preventive Maintenance work orders will be automatically assigned to the default assignee - users no longer need to manually assign users to a work order. If default assignee is not available, system assigns the work order to the next available technician in the group
- New search parameters added to CMMS Work Order allows users to search for work orders by the following statuses: Assigned to Me, Assigned to Group, Submitted by Me, Submitted by Group
- Email notifications include a direct link to the Work Order’s URL
- Users can define a recipient in the email notification
- CMMS now integrates with Google calendar: users can send CMMS work order reminders directly to their personal Google calendars
- CMMS Checklist improvements allow users to complete the work order and checklist from the same tab; users can bypass the status and comments and quickly mark each item complete by ticking the checkbox at the end of each list item
- Preventive Maintenance module allows users to batch import PM files from local drives to save time
- PM’s Duration Time feature allows users to schedule preventive maintenance across one day
CMMS Tooling Control
- New Maintenance Tab allows plants to manage tooling maintenance by usage, manufacturer’s expiration date, and/or time period according to Asset Type
- System automatically creates Work Order and sends email notification according to defined tooling maintenance requirements
- System sends MFG hold when wrong incorrect, expired, or overused tooling is loaded
- Tooling Mapping module establishes relationship between Production and Tooling Control
- Production module (Tooling Load/Unload) validates tooling
- Manual Update Usage module validates tooling for standalone factories
- Tooling Where Used module displays complete tooling details to include PN, Tooling ID, and Locations
- Search by Tooling Maintenance Work Order available in CMMS Work Order
CMMS Calibration Bug Fixes and Enhancements
- Calibration needed is no longer the default selection
- Users can open and export Calibration work orders from Downtime Problem and Downtime Trend Analysis Reports located in CMMS Reports
- Invalid times are highlighted in grey
- New search criteria added to Calibration.
- System sends email notifications to assigned users when Calibration is due
- Calibration date displays local timezone
- PM Calendar date displays local timezone
- Improvements on Error Messages
December 15, 2018
Overview: Non-Medical High Availability Upgrade
Environments affected: SPC Application, Production Scanning, Label Engine, PCB multi-page traveler & material transfer, Mes Connector/MES-Fuji, MES-API, MDS Interfaces, CMMS Application, Site Maintenance Portlet, SFDC Portlet, MESWeb Application, Print Queues, KV Production
42Q-mes-mds-15.1.16-dec2018-patchfiles
Patches and Bug Fixes were applied to improve the overall usability of SFDC and Conduit
production-scanning-1.2.19
Bug Fixes were applied. All features are working as expected. Users are now able to complete the following actions in Production Scanning:
- View a single command
- Configure a prompt
- Access AVP when scanning by location
- End an assembly when no PNs have been added
- Enter plant codes without case sensitive restrictions
- Access all document layout types
- Operators are able to refer to the Repair Code and Description while repairing a defect
kv-production-2.10.4.2.1
Bug Fixes applied
quality-spc-portlet-1.2.13
Enhancement was made to improve the user experience on the SPC’s Monitor page
quality-spc-server-1.2.12
Bug Fixes were applied to eliminate the following monitor errors:
- MR Chart calculation errors
- Duplicated SNs in S05-01 Monitor
- Missing time stamps on P-Chart data
mes-api-1.5.10
The following capabilities were added to 42Q’s API:
- Users are able to retrieve flex fields for location, process, defect, and part
- Users can filter activities by part number and unit endpoints
- Users can search for serials via the Serial Info View submodule
- API now recognizes domain settings data
- API uses endpoints to improve connectivity to AWS
- API able to retrieve algorithm numbers
Bug fixes to enhance the following activity:
- Remove the error on units without comments
- Improve measurement data transfer
sfdc-config-2.7.1
Bug Fix:
- SFDC routes and subroutes now work as expected when users select locations.
Enhancement:
- Location Tab added to the Manufacturing Line module of SFDC.
cmms-2.0.0
Bug Fixes and Enhancements:
- All timezones now work as expected.
- Asset Name and Asset Type fields expanded to accept 128 character input.
label engine-2.2.3
Bugs Fixes:
- Label field now follows correct naming conventions, such that users cannot enter forbidden characters
- When users attempt to print labels without templates, an error message with directions is displayed
- The Group ID integer overflow was fixed
- The addition of a token generation algorithm prevents users from scanning characters that are not URI friendly
Enhancements improve the following use cases:
- Label Engine log files now include label print start points
- Audit print key exports to print history
- The label list auto refreshes when labels are deleted to provide ultimate traceability
- System preserves use-defined filters until users complete their session
- Increase input limit for Add Part > Part Number.
- Mapping screen for published labels allows users to add long parts lists
- Print history report screen design improvements
site-maintenance-1.12.41a
Bug Fix:
- Changes in Name and Edit modes now save as expected.
sfdc-portlet-1.14.28
Bug Fix:
- Data Collector’s start page displays as expected, even when files are mapped from Agile or a deviation numbers.
mes-connector/mes-fuji-web-service-2.0.6
Bug Fix:
- PTS configuration now working as expected
mesweb-application-1.4.6
Bug Fix:
- MESWeb portal successfully exports files to Excel
New Features:
- Material Transfer Report now available to users.
- PCB Multi page Traveler allows users to show/hide attributes in MESWeb
Enhancement:
- New feature allows PCB plants to move attributes out of process to first process
- PCB Unit History and Traveler History submodules replace Oracle Route ID
