Revision History

General

• Added ability to reset the User Password via Email (Where LoginName is an Email Address)
• Fixed several potential web vulnerabilities which were identified during routine testing.
• Removed the references to on-line Provideam Licence Manager from the Provideam Licence Page. This feature is no longer being supported.
• Removed case sensitivity to all Admin Selection Filters where possible.
• Added an Active column to Machine Admin tables. Added a Checkbox to Show/Hide inactive items. Default display is to hide inactive items.

OEE Module - Admin

• Expanded the Textbox lengths for Data Source Tags in Machine Admin to show more of longer OPC/MQTT Tag names.
• Imposed a limit of 100 Counts/Machine to the Machine Admin Counts Page . If you require more than 100 Counts to be recorded per Machine contact DTL.

OEE Module - Manual Entry

• Fixed an issue whereby, when editing a Mode or Count record, the displayed Description swithed to the first option in the count list (alphabetic order) instead of the actual current value. 

Applications - RealtimeIF

• Added the ability to show Daily Yield Total in Yield Section of ReatimeIF Home page.
• Fixed issue whereby the RealtimeIF Modify Operator Edit Screen did not show Operator list.
• Fixed issue whereby Manual Defects (Manual_DB) were not displayed correctly in the RealtimeIF Count Edit Selection Page.
• Fixed issue whereby the Mode button did not display the ChangeOver colour for the Mode type "ChangeOver - No Lot Change"

Applications - OnePageDashboard

• Added the ability to view the hourly Mode Log from the OnePageDashboard HourlyYield Table
• Added the ability to display up to 3 of the Top Losses per hour in HourlyYield Table
• Added the ability to diplay LostUnits (ie LostTime/StdTime) for each displayed Loss in HourlyYield Table

Applications - OEEBoard

• Fixed an issue whereby the TopLosses chart showed the data for all Machines in the Area, instead of just the selected Machine.

Applications - Plan Adherence App

• Added a Refresh button to the Plan Adherence Scheduled View.
• Added a red line to Scheduled View to indicate current time.
• Added a predicted time indication to Plan Adherence. Based on current production rate this will provide an indication of when future plans will commence.
• Removed case sensitivity from the PartName import for Production Plans. Plans which include PartNames with different cases to those stored in Provideam will now be matched.
• Added ISO Week Number to Plan Adherence Views.
• Fixed issue whereby the Export Template button (Plan Import) did not do anything.
• Fixed issue whereby the %Actual KPI was not calulating the %PlannedTime/ActualTime correctly.

General

• Removed the ability of the Full Install Executable to update Provideam
• Updated the MQTT Broker, and included the broker in a standard install
• Added Twilio Option for SMS Messages
• Added ability to collect data using OPC-UA
• Increased Complex Password length to 10 characters
• Updated the UI to support BigInt values for Count and Mode records.

OEE Module - Dashboard

• Fixed issue whereby IdleDT was not included in the Provideam OEEMon Dashboard Admin Log, Mode View

OEE Module - Manual Entry

• Updated UI to show Group/Description for Counts, when Machine Admin is configured to display Group and Description

Provideam API

• Added API Endpoints to Start/Stop Provideam Services, and to get status of services

Applications - RealtimeIF

• Updated the UI to show the Mode and Shift Comments on the home page
• Added the ability to Show All Modes (limited by Shift) on the Mode Details page
• Updated the format of the text on the RealtimeIF Mode button to be the same as the OnePageDashboard
• Fixed issue whereby the RealtimeIF UI was setting a default LotName on a ChangeOver. This is now done in the Data Collection Service
• Fixed issue whereby the Tool Selection window displayed Tools which were not enabled for selected Machine
• Fixed issue whereby the MacPartRef setting did not appear when the Tool Edit option was selected
• Fixed issue which stopped the RealtimeIF CommandEntry from working

Applications - OnePageDashboard

• Added option to send Escalation Alerts by Twilio Text Message
• Added ability to show Loss Time in Minutes for TopLoss By Hour table
• Added ability to show % Loss Time in Top 5 Losses table
• Fixed an issue whereby the OnePageDashboard TopLoss By Hour table showed Cavitation Loss when no loss exists

Applications - OEEBoard

• Updated the OEE Board UI to allow for increased flexibility in filtering by selected Machines, and drilling down by selected Machines

General

• Added support for SAML2, Single-Sign-On, SSO, authentication to Provideam and ProvideamApps
• Added support for TLS and newer security standards to Email client
• Removed the option to display the PC clock on the Provideam Side Bar

OEE Module - Admin

• Added Schedule Downtime Feature for Machines. This allows a user to set Scheduled DT periods in advance - such as Plant Shutdowns, or Annual Holidays.
• Added Count Bounce Filter setting to Machine Counts Admin. This filter helps to avoid spurious jumps in the count value due to OPC faults. 
• Increased maximum allowed Mode Target Time value  to 200,000s

OEE Module - Reporting

• Added option to Select/Deselect All parameter values when creating Parameterised Functions
• Fixed an issue whereby Production Table headers were not appearing in CSV exports of Loss Reports

OEE Module - Dashboard

• Fixed an issue whereby out of range Custom Functions on Dashboard would crash the Dashboard

OEE Module - Manual Entry

• Added support for editing Tools and Cavities values in the Manual Entry section

ProvideamApps

• Combined individual applications (OEE Board, OnePageDashboard and RealtimeIF) into the ProvideamApps portal
• Added support for direct APIKey Login to individual Apps

Applications - RealtimeIF

• Added support for special characters in "Command Entry" Section of RealtimeIF App. This helps to overcome issues where devices such as BarCode Scanners may be hardwired to send special control characters with the barcode text
• Added MacPartRef value to the display when enabled for the selected Machine
• Removed "inactive" Items from Mode, Part & Tool selection options

Applications - OnePageDashboard

• Added the ability to configure ChangeOver Mode Display settings in the Top Loss by Hour Table
• Added the "Day" Period option to Header Section Functions
• Added support for Conditional Formatting of Header Section Functions. This allows the user to apply a background colour to a function if the value is above or below a target

Applications - OEEBoard

• Improved User Interface design

OEE Module - Admin

• Fixed an issue whereby data collection would stop, if the Update button was clicked on a Machine which had no assigned OPC Tags.
• Added new ModeType "Change Over - No Lot Change - Manual". When a Mode of this ModeType is selected by an Operator, Provideam will thereafter not record any Mode changes identified by the OPC Data Collection Service. Once the Operator selects a new Mode of a different ModeType - then normal data collection will resume. 

OEE Module - Reporting

• Added the MachineID, ShiftID, PartID, OperatorID and ToolID Field options to Loss Reports.

OEE Module - Dashboard

• Fixed an issue whereby parameterised functions were not being displayed in the correct sort order in Station Yield Views.

Applications - RealtimeIF

• Added a new panel for "Command Entry". The user can type (or barcode scan) commands to set the current Mode, Part etc.
• Fixed an issue whereby the Yield Panel would crash due to a KPI calculation error.

General

• Fixed Issue whereby the Services Admin Page would show 'incorrect response' instead of the proper reply from the Service.
• Added the RealtimeIF licence to the ProvDBMgt Tool Restore “3 Day Trial Licence”.
• Updated the Provideam Installer to give the Administrator Read/Write access to the Default Plant
• Updated the Provideam Installer Demo Database to MS SQL Server 2016
• Update the Provideam Installer to install KepServerEx v6.6

OEE Module - Admin

• Fixed an issue where the Import New Dictionary method was not setting the Plant Reference correctly.
• Fixed an issue whereby the Add Part method would cause a crash when the Default Plant was enabled for the User.
• Updated the Machine Mode Admin Page. The Mode Description now accepts up to 120 characters.

OEE Module - Reporting

• Fixed an issue whereby the Scheduled Task Service would repeatedly email reports for Monthly Tasks set for a date that didn't exist. Eg. 30th of February
• Fixed an issue whereby the a StdLoss Report Pie Chart would crash when a Pie segement was clicked.
• Fixed an issue whereby the OEE Loss Reports would crash while drilling down from Level1 and Level2.
• Fixed an issue whereby the Format of Custom Functions in the Report Wizard would become mixed up if you changed the order of the Custom Functions in the Report.
• Added the OEE Time and Performance Loss Time elements to Standard Loss (StdLoss) Reports.
• Added the ModeTargetTime Function to Mode Log Report.
• Added WorkCell support to Roll-up Reports.
• Added a 'Run' button to the Schedule Task Admin Page. This allows the User to test the report sending feature.

OEE Module - Live

• Increased the number of Functions available in the Current Status Dashboard from 5 to 10.

OEE Module - Manual Entry

• Fixed an issue whereby the Manual Entry Page would crash on opening, if the value for StdTime * GoodParts was in engineering notation format.
• Fixed an issue with Manual Entry. Manual Entry Add Shift feature was not taking account of the 'LinkShiftStartToDay' setting from the Shift Admin.
• Fixed an issue whereby the Manual Entry Module, Station Yield Dashboard was displaying the Hourly values compressed in to a single Shift value.
• Added support for decimal number entry on yield values in the Manual Entry Module.

OEE Module - ProvRealtimeIF

• Fixed an issue whereby the RealtimeIF would crash if new Counts were added to the Machine Configuration.
• Fixed an issue whereby the values in hidden boxes (ie hidden text boxes) were being written to the Lot / Shift Production records.
• Fixed an issue whereby the Machine Select drop-down list would disappear before the user had a chance to select a new Machine.

OEE Module - API

• Added flags to the API Report Queries to support the options 'Include Grand Totals' and 'Do not apply StdTime correction'

OEE Module - Service

• Fixed an issue whereby the OEE Monitoring Service would reset the dbCount value on restart.

Event Module - Admin

• Added the ability for the user to update an Event Group with out having to restart the Event Monitoring Service.
• Add the ability to filter Event Reports and Event Collections by Plant.

Event Module - Service

• Added the ability to handle numbers in engineering notation format.

Applications - OEE Board

• We have now added a new application the OEEBoard which is available to customers that have purchase a subscription to the Provideam API interface. See our youtube video on the OEEBoard for more details.

Applications - OnePageDashboard

• We have now added a new application the OnePage Dashboard which is available to customers that have purchase a subscription to the Provideam API interface. See our youtube video on the OnePageDashboard for more details.

Applications - RealtimeIF

• We have now added a new RealtimeIF application which is available to customers that have purchase a subscription to the Provideam API interface. See our youtube video on the RealtimeIF for more details.

IOT Data Capture

• We have now added support for the ProvEdgeBox. The ProvEdgeBox is an IOT style sensor which can monitor the good counts being produced on a production machine and send the data to Provideam over the internet. See User Guide for details.

General

• Individual Plant Licence usage is now displayed on the Plant Admin Page.
• Individual Plant Users are now restricted from exceeding the number of Machines licenced. This helps to limit a Plant using licences owned by another Plant in the Organisation.
• Added Change Log support for the Manual Entry Page.

OEE Module - Reporting

• Added MaterialName filter option to OEE Reports.
• Enhanced OEE Loss Report. Reports can now include several non-Loss type Fields. In addition the Fields can be loaded in any order.
• Enhanced OEE Rollup Reports. It is now possible to hide Machine level data.
• Added support for fnCavityTime, fnWorkCavityTime, fnTargetOEETime and fnTargetOEE Functions.
• Added support for fdToolStdTime Field.
• Added the ability to set the Font Size(Medium, Large, Extra Large) on Report and View Tables and Charts.
• Added the ability to select a Yield Log Report as an option on Report Drilldown.
• Fixed issue whereby the Scheduled Task PDF version of a Rollup Report did not generate correctly.
• Fixed issue whereby OEE Reports exported as CSV did not show function values with the correct formatting.
• Fixed issue whereby Idle Downtime was not included as an option in the Level 1 Loss Filter for OEE Reports.
• Fixed issue whereby Week Period Exclusion was not working in OEE Reports.
• Fixed issue whereby the OEE Report Copy function did not correctly copy all Paramters in a Parameterised Function.
• Fixed issue whereby OEE Report would crash when the MTD and YTD Period were used in the same Report.

OEE Module - Dashboard

• Enhanced the OEE Dashboard OEE Analysis Tab such that the Chart colours used in the Pie Loss Chart correspond to the same Loss Items in the Events Pareto Chart.
• Enhanced the OEE Dashboard to allow the ProdSpeed and ProdQuality paramters to range from 0% to 150%.
• Fixed issue whereby the OEE Dashboard Manual Entry Page would crash when expanding the Hour record.

OEE Module - Live

• Added the ability to use Plan Adherence Reports in the Live View.
• Added the ability to create Live Views at the Plant Level.
• Fixed issue whereby the Current Status View did not sort data in order of the column headings.

OEE Module - Manual Entry

• Added the ability to lock data after a set number of days. Thus preventing Users editing old data without Admin permissions.
• Fixed issue in the Manual Entry module whereby the page would display the message "Error Loading Selected Machine Data" when the User attempted to create a Shift entry at a time of day when no valid Shift was configured in the Shift Profile.

OEE Module - Admin

• Added Support for Machine grouping in WorkCells.
• Updated OEE business logic to increase speed of data return for Reports and Views.
• Updated Custom Page Admin to allow URLs of up to 255 characters.
• Changed the Part ID to an Int from Smallint to facilitate Users with large numbers of Parts.
• Fixed an issue in Regional settings for Users where , is used as a decimal point indicator. This is now recoginised correctly in CSV importation.

OEE Module - ProvRealtimeIF

• Updated RealtimeIF so that Batch details are hidden unless the Batch Details Display option has been selecting.
• Increased the number of Counts that could be displayed to 20.
• Added a New Mode button to the Home Page.
• Fixed issue whereby inactive Machines with the RealtimeIF option enabled were consuming RealtimeIF licences.
• Fixed issue whereby the Lot Time stamp created by the RealtimeIF was not based on the Machine Local Time.

Event Module - Admin

• Fixed issue whereby Report Headers were not formatted correctly on Event Report Emails.

General

• The Provideam User Interface has been modified to better model a multi-plant organisation.
• Fixed issue whereby the application would crash if a User without Machine access tried to log-in and then clicked the 'Logout' link in the warning message.
• Fixed issue whereby the 'Support Agreement has Expired' message repeated on failed Login attempts
• Fixed issue where by the Dictionary Module did not display all the sections of the Dictionary appropriate to the Provideam Licence.

OEE Module - Reporting

• Added Loss Drilldown capability. It is now possible to drill-down from higher to lower Loss levels.
• Added the ability to apply custom formatting to OEE Report Fields. Up to now it was only possible to apply custom formatting to OEE Report Functions.
• Enhanced the Custom Static Function to all multiple Fields to be selected in the same Custom Static Function. This facilitates applying conditional formating to Rows and SubTotal Rows in OEE Reports.
• Added a new Yield Log Report Type.
• Added 3 new Report Period Options - WTD, MTD, YTD. These options operate in a similar way to the current 7Day option. The User selects the End Date and the Report Wizard automatically finds the Start Date.
• Fixed issue whereby generating a CSV export of a Loss Report would cause a crash if no Production Functions had been included.
• Fixed issue whereby the Production Function Column Headers in a CSV export of a Loss Report would be offset by one cell from the Production data.
• Fixed issue whereby the Function Column order was not respected the first time a report was run.

OEE Module - Dashboard

• We now show the Selected Date Range on the Dasboard.

OEE Module - Manual Entry

• We now show the Selected Date Range on the Manual Entry Page.
• Fixed issue in the Manual Entry module whereby the Mode StartTime was not set correctly and was not in line with the Machine TimeZone.
• Fixed issue in the Manual Entry module whereby the Manual Entry Dashboard did not display the full range of Shifts related to the Machine in the selected date range for the client TimeZone.

OEE Module - Admin

• Added CSV Import/Export support for Mac-Part-StdTime page

OEE Module - ProvRealtimeIF

• Added Columns Headers to ProvRealtimeIF Edit Mode/Lot/Shift Details Pages.
• Added the ability to Display and Modify Production Speed and Production Quality Parameters in ProvRealtimeIF.
• Added text to Count Details Page to identify which Lot/Batch the count relates to.
• Fixed issue whereby the RealtimeIF Lot Edit Page did not display the correct Parts when MacPartRef was set for the Machine.

Event Module - Admin

• Added the ability to disable an Event Group from annunciating Alarms. Upto now Events in an EventGroup had to be disabled individually.

Installer

• The Provideam Installer now includes Kepware v6 OPC Server.

Provideam Admin - System Reports

• Fixed issue whereby the GetAlarmsByUser report did not return Users from Contact Lists.

OEE Module - Views

• Fixed issue whereby Conditional Formatting did not work for Live Views.

OEE Module - Reporting

• Fixed issue whereby deleting a Report would not always delete the associated Scheduled Tasks.
• Fixed issue whereby when HTML reports were forwarded from one Email Address to another, some hidden Columns in Report Tables would inadvertently appear.
• Fixed issue whereby PDF Reports were not removed from the Temporary Folder on the WebServer after use.
• Fixed issue whereby Conditional Formatting did not work in the Production Report section of Loss Reports.
• Fixed issue with Loss Reports which included an Object or Period Field in the first column whereby Percentage Functions, such as '%Loss' would be generated over the entire dataset and not limited to the Object or Period Field.

Plan Adherence - Report

• Fixed issue whereby the Plan Adherence Report would crash if a Plan was scheduled to start in a period where no Shift had been created.

Plan Adherence - Management

• Changed the format for Planned Time and Planned CO Time to HHH:MM.
• Updated the Overall Table on the Management Page to display Planned Start and End Time as well as Start and End Date.

OEE Module - Manual Entry

• Updated Calendar Filter to include additional Filter Options such as Lot, Part etc.

OEE Module - Dashboard

• Updated Calendar Filter to include additional Filter Options such as Lot, Part etc.

OEE Module - Admin

• Added option to set FlexField textbox size to 1/8 screen size.

OEE Module - Reporting

• Added the ability to create Custom Static Functions on reports. Static Functions allow you to create a column on the Report whose values are derived from a Conditional Statement applied to another column. For example. IF value in MachineName column = "AssemblyMC1" THEN Static Function Value = X
• Fixed issue where by the Y Axis Time Format is not correctly displayed on Pareto Charst where the total time in a bar is greater than 24 hours.
• Fixed issue where by the option to replace repeated '00:00:00' values by a '-' character was not working.
• Fixed issue where by the Rollup Report Table Rows were becoming skewed for large datasets.

Provideam RealtimeIF

• Added Option to present Selection Options as a Dropdown Box instead of Pushbuttons.

Plan Adherence - Management

• Fixed issue where by the Calendar Display did not show the correct ISO Week Numbers.

OEE Module - Admin

• Added the ability to an Overtime Shift to have the Overtime Timer reset at the start of the Shift (ie instead of continuing from previous Overtime Shift).
• Changed the manner in which the Shift is linked to a specific day. Shifts can now be related to the Calendar Day or the Previous/Next Calendar day. This allows for example a Shift starting at 1hour past midnight to be linked to the previous calendar day for reporting purposes.
• OEEMon Service: Fixed issue whereby the data conversion between Doubles and Ints was not working correctly for SQL2008 databases.

OEE Module - Dashboard

• Fixed issue whereby the Live Page did not support Parameterised Functions.
• Fixed issue whereby the Emailed version of the OEE Time Dashboard contained two Time Pie Charts, rather than one Time Chart and one Num Events chart.

OEE Module - Manual Entry

• Fixed issue whereby the Manual Entry page crashed when a Shift Record, where the Batch field was displayed, was modified.
• Fixed issue whereby a Custom View on the Manual Entry page sometimes caused a crash when a new Shift Record was added.

OEE Module - Reporting

• Added the ability to the YieldTime function to calculate Time for any Station Count - including GoodCount, DefectCount and Cycles.
• Removed the limit of 100 Loss Reasons from the Loss Reports.
• Changed the operation of the fdYYYYMMDDHH field to be based on the calendar date instead of the Shift Start Date.

OEE Module - Plan Adherence

• Improved the CSV Import of Plans in the Plan Adherence plug-in Management Page to validate dates better.

Event Module - Reports

• Added an Aggregate Report. The Simple Group report allows you to count, sum, average etc values over a defined period.
• Fixed issue whereby the Event Report Period Header was not displaying the date range correctly.

General

• Added a User Activity Report to the System Reports.
• Added the ability to send Emails as HTML only, or as HTML and Plain Text.
• Added Single Sign-on Support (SAML 2.0) to support applications such as Okta.

OEE Module - Admin

• Added the ability to create Plant (ie Site) labels, and to associate these with Areas.
• Added the ability to create Standard Loss labels, and to associate these with existing Modes and Counts.
• Added the ability to declare a Standard Time for each Mode. This can to be used with Change Over Analysis Reporting, or Planned Time Reporting.
• Fixed issue where by the Manual Copy items in the Machine Admin Details page were not included in the Dictionary Module.

OEE Module - Dashboard

• Added the ability to show Brand Images on the Dashboard Reports.
• Updated the Admin Log to support revised method of storing Mode Duration. Mode Duration Records are now child records of the Mode Description Records. This is necessary to support new Change Over Analysis functions.
• Fixed issue where by Views in the OEE Dashboard Module did not respect the setting 'Do Not Apply StdTime'.

OEE Module - Manual Entry

• Removed the option to enter Mode data by Hour. Mode must now be entered by Shift.
• Added the Downtime Log Page (incl. Time Bar Chart) to the Manual Entry sections.
• Fixed issue whereby Views with Custom Functions crashed the Manual Entry module.
• Fixed issue whereby Views in the Manual Entry Module did not respect the setting 'Do Not Apply StdTime'.
• Fixed issue where by the Shift Validation rules prevented the user saving a record even though the invalid item was not editable by the user.
• The Manual Entry tab switches to the first tab (ie Shift Details) when the user clicks the New Shift button.

OEE Module - Reporting

• Added functions to support Change Over Analysis. Eg Change Over Target Time. Change Over Variance, Loss Description Target Time [param] etc.
• Added a wider selection of Time Format options. Eg. Minutes, Seconds, hhh:mm:ss, ddd hh:mm:ss etc.
• Added Custom Format option to set the default Pen style for a Function to be Line or Bar. If Line then the function will be drawn as a Line, even if the Chart Style is Bar. And vice versa.
• Added Stacked Bar Chart Type to support ChangeOver Analysis Reports. Note: The original Stacked Bar Chart option in Provideam is now referred to as a Percentage Bar Chart.
• Added the option to display Chart Only. Heretofore it was only possible to select Table Only, or Table and Chart.
• Added the ability to enable Data Labels for individual functions on Line, Bar and Stacked Bar Charts. This feature is not currently enabled for Percentage Bar Charts.
• Fixed issue where by the Conditional Formating did not appear on Scheduled Reports.

OEE Module - Web Service

• Added the ability to use the 'Do Not Apply StdTime' setting in the OEE Web Service Interface.

OEE Module - Provideam RealtimeIF

• Added the ability to display/modify Cycles and Station counts within the Provideam Realtime Interface.

General

• Added a French Dictionary and Demo Data.
• Added a default Database Connection string for the "ProvideamExtn" Database. This is to facilitate developers of custom modules to use a connection to a separate "ProvideamExtn" database for data storage custom purposes. Note: The ProvideamExtn Database is not created or managed by Provideam. It is anticipated that this would be created by the developer.

OEE Module - Dashboard

• A new setting has been included in the Machine Admin Details which allows you to configure Mode or Yield entry by Description, or by Name and then Description.

OEE Module - Reporting

• It is now possible to drill down on the Period Field of OEE Reports, including the Roll-up Report.
• Fixed issue whereby OEE Loss Report Production functions were not formatted correctly.

OEE Module - Plan Adherence

• The Plan Adherence Management and Report Interfaces have been updated.
• The Management Page now includes entries for specifying the Planned StartDate and Planned ChangeOver Time.
• The Plan Adherence Report now shows both Actual Production, but also Planned Production on a Gantt Chart and Table.
• The View Management Page now includes drag 'n' drop functionality to define the Field Order. Note: As part of this update, existing Field Setup and View Definitions will be deleted.
• The Plan Adherence CSV Import User Interface Text has now been included in the Dictionary.

General

• The filter control has been changed. It is now no longer case sensitive.
• Custom Functions have been enhanced. We now offer the ability to include Parameterised Functions within Custom Functions.
• Custom Functions: Fixed issue where by OEE Reports crashed when they included a Custom Function with division by zero.
• Custom Functions: Fixed issue whereby OEE Reports crashed if they included a Custom Function which in turn refered to standard Functions which were no longer included in the OEE Report definition. Now a message will be displayed warning the User to correct the Report definition.
• A new 'System Reports' menu has been added to the Provideam Admin section. This menu enables you to generate a range of useful system reports.

OEE Module - Dashboard

• It is now possible to apply conditional formatting to the background color on the Dashboard Overall Table. Thus you could specify that the OEE value should have a green background if the OEE value is greater than 60%.
• The Dashboard now retains your previous Area Selection. Thus when you navigate back to the Dashboard from another page the Area selection will be the one you had selected the last time you browsed the Dashboard.
• The Dashboard Overall Table default View Fields are re-ordered so that the data is sorted correctly by default. The default Field Order is now MachineName, ShiftStartTime, ShiftName.
• The Dashboard Current Status Page, Lot 'New' and 'Modify' buttons now have separate User Group Security Settings. In addition the 'New' button operation has changed. The 'New' button now sets the 'dbChangeOver' flag - thus prompting the OEEMon Service to create a new Lot. To use this feature you must ensure that the 'dbChangeOver' DataSource is set to 'DB'.
• Items whose Display setting is 'Modify' will appear on the Dashboard - whether the DataSource setting is 'OPC' or 'NA'. If the setting is 'NA' then only the current record will be updated - ie the update will not apply to future records.
• Custom Functions and Custom Formats can now be applied to Overall Dashboard and Station Yield Views.
• The Dashboard Current Status Page has been updated. The new Current Status Page supports more FlexFields.
• Fixed issue where by the Station Yield Dashboard extended beyond the horizontal span of the page but a scroll bar did not appear.

OEE Module - Reporting

• It is now possible to apply conditional formatting to the background color on Reports. Thus you could specify that the OEE value should have a red background if the OEE value is less than than 20%.
• An option has now been provided to allow multi-page headers on pdf Reports.
• CSV reports now respect the regional format for decimal numbers.
• Fixed issue whereby the OEE Report did not display Custom Functions in the correct order.

OEE Module - Realtime Interface

• Added the ability to enter Shift and Mode Comments via the Realtime Interface.

OEE Module - Plan Adherence

• Fixed issue where by the CSV import was not overwriting TargetTimes during a data merge.
• Fixed issue where by the Management Page did not display the Plans in the correct order.
• Fixed issue where by pdf report did not display the Gantt Chart correctly.
• Fixed issue where by the OEEMon Service did not update the 'InProduction' status flag correctly for the current Production Lot.

General

• Numbers are now displayed and inputted in the appropriate format for the selected region. For example the decimal number 'five point one' can be entered as '5.1' in US or '5,1' in Spain.
• Fixed an issue where by IE11 displayed Provideam pages in 'Compatibility Mode' when viewed on a remote PC. This led to the pages not being disabled correctly.

WebService Interface

• The WebService object has been updated. Existing WebService Clients will need to be re-built to work with the updated WebService.
• Some new Methods have been added to the OEELogic WebService.
• A new EventLogic WebService has been added which will allow Clients to access Event Logic Data.

Licensing

• We have changed the Licening of the KPI-to-OPC and Plan Adherence plug-ins so that you only need to licence the plug-ins for the number of Machines you wish to use with the plug-ins. Upto now it was necessary to licence the plug-ins for every Machine in your Provideam configuration.

Database

• The Database Backup Command Timeout duration has been increased to 15mins

Provideam DBMgt Tool

• The ProvDBMgt Tool can now be used with non-Provideam Instances of SQL Server. Up to now it was not possible to use the tool to manage a Provideam database mounted on an Instance of SQL which was not installed by the Provideam Installer.

OEE Module

• Added Validation to OEE Report Wizard to help ensure reports are defined correctly
• Updated the Dashboard, Station Yield and Live Views Admin to use Drag n Drop user interface methods - in-line with new Report Wizard design
• Fixed several minor Report Wizard bugs
• Fixed bug in OEE Report CSV Export feature which prevented the CSV Export from running
• Fixed issue whereby the OEE Report Save Template button was not disabled when the User setting 'Read-Only' was set for Reports

OEE Module - Report Wizard

• New Report Wizard Design
• Now provides a larger selection of Fields to include in Reports
• User now has option to apply custom formats to Fields & Functions
• Subject to Licence user can create Custom Function Scripts
• The option to include tabular data with the Rollup Report has been added

OEE Module - Machine Admin

• It is now possible to select the default OEELoss Type for System Modes such as 'Not Logged'
• Shift Comments can now be enabled for the Dashboard and Manual Entry Pages
• NumOperatorsUsed can now be enabled for the Manual Entry Pages

OEE Module - Dashboard

• The NumEvents chart on the OEEAnalysis page has been changed to a Pareto

OEE Logic

• Fixed Week Number issue whereby the Year was not displayed correctly when Week 1 started in the previous year

Task Scheduler

• Fixed issue whereby the Task Scheduler did not use the saved Port Number when accessing the Provideam Web Application

Database

• The Database Indexing has been revised
• The number of characters allowed in a Shift Comment has been increased to 250

OEE Module

• Report Wizard - Added 'ByHour' & 'ByShift' option to the Production Object Report for Week, Month and Custom Periods
• Added function to the OEE Monitoring service to reset the current values in the Present Values table on restart
• Changed the re-order function from buttons to 'drag n drop' for Live Views, Dashboard Views, Station Yield Views and Custom Pages
• Fixed issue on Timebar Chart on OEE Dashboard whereby mouse ToolTip showed 'stopped' instead of the actual stop reason
• Fixed issue on the Live View Admin Modify Function whereby the View details were not being saved correctly
• Fixed issue in the OEE Monitoring Module whereby the Split Mode function was not splitting the current Mode correctly
• Fixed issue in Chart Logic whereby the Pie Chart Labels were not being scaled appropriately to match the available space
• Fixed issue in OEE Monitoring Service whereby the StdNumOperatorsUsed parameter (as defined in the Machine Admin > Part-StdTime page) was not automatically set when the Part selected changed
• Fixed issue in OEE Monitoring Service whereby the NumCavitiesUsed parameter for a new Machine was defaulting to 0 rather than 1, when the NumCavitiesUsed DataSource was set to 'NA'

Database

• Added indexes to remove 'deadlock' issue
• Added Stored Procedures for manipulating the Shift and Lot records
• Added script to enable 'XP_CommandShell'. This component is required for the Provideam Database Backup Stored Procedure
• Moved present value columns (curProdLotID, curProdShiftID etc.) from Machine Properties Table to Machine Present Values Table
• Changed the Provideam Database backup procedure to write system messages to the Provideam Events Log instead of a text file
• Changed the ID data type in the ViewParams table from smallint to int

Event Module

• Fixed issue whereby on creating a Data Change Event, the Data Change Parameter defaulted to 100% - with the result that the value would have to change by 100% before it was logged
• Fixed issue whereby in the Event Monitoring Service the Data Change Parameter was being ignored

OEE Module

• Added feature to RealtimeIF plug-in such that if the 'Historical Records' setting is 0 then when the User presses the Edit button (eg. to change a Mode), the focus switches immediately to the Mode selection for the current Mode. In otherwords the User won't see any historical data
• Added the ability to Provideam Live to specify the dwell time for each individual page
• Fixed an issue in the Area Admin section whereby Area Names were not being sorted alphabetically in the selection dropdown box
• Fixed an issue on the OEE Dashboard > Admin Log page whereby the Counts were being sorted by Count Type, instead of by logged timestamp
• Fixed an issue on the OEE Dashboard > Admin Log page whereby the User was allowed to enter negative count values. This has now been prevented
• Fixed an issue on the OEE Dashboard > Admin Log page whereby the Count Type was being displayed as an integer ID instead of the text name

Events Module

• Fixed issue in the Event Monitoring Module whereby multiple error messages were generated if the PLC (OPC Connection) was off-line. Now only one error message is generated
• Fixed issue on the Event Current Status Report whereby the page was not being refreshed when the AutoRefresh option was checked

Plan Adherence

• Predicted End Date calculation changed so that the time is calculated from the rate of production since the start of the current Lot

Provideam Admin

• Fixed issue in the Provideam Event Log whereby the Filter function did not display the Log Date TimeStamp correctly

Installer

• Updated the Provideam Setup installer to include KepServer version 5.15
• Fixed an issue whereby the Provideam Setup installer would not run the DB Updater for version 4.3.8.110

Database

• Moved Split Lots & Distribute Counts functions to Stored Procedures
• Fixed issue whereby the Split Lots function would not work on a SQL2008R2 Database. Provideam supports SQL versions 2008R2 and above
• Increased Station Count Name text length from 25 to 50 characters

OEE Module

• Enabled double datatype option for OperatorsUsed and CavititesUsed OPC Tags
• Corrected issue with Day Light Saving data logging
• Enabled ability to limit the number of losses returned in a Loss Report to the Top X Losses
• Updated Scheduled Task display to show Next Run timestamp
• Changed the default setting for the Downtime Log Timebar Chart to off
• Added TimeBar Chart to Dashboard Downtime Log
• Added TimeBar Chart option to Mode Log Report
• Updated Manual Entry Dashboard. Replaced text buttons with icon buttons
• Improved Custom Page Menu Security. It is now possible to use Contact Lists to control access to Custom Menu Pages
• Added User Active Flag to User Admin Page. Individual Users can now be made inactive which prevents Users from Logging in

Plan Adherence

• Added option to include Plan Adherence Reports in Live View Displays

Installer

• Modified installer such that the Provideam application only installs after the MS SQL Server engine has installed correctly. If the SQL Server fails to install then a prompt will appear to correct the SQL Server Install error

Tools - ProvDBMgt Application

• Added the ability to delete Event Data
• Added the ability to backup, compress and upload Provideam Database to support ftp site for analysis

OEE Module

• Modified OEE Monitoring Service so that the service will run even if no Counts are configured
• Modified OEE Monitoring Service so that the service will run even if no OPC Tags are configured
• Release beta version of Provideam Realtime IF. Provideam Realtime IF is a Pushbutton User interface designed for use with Pads or Thin Clients
• Downgraded the Provideam Demo Kepware OPC configuration to version 5.1. Thus the configuration file will now support older versions of the Kepware OPC Server
• Fixed issue whereby some Counts were not updated at change over from one hour to another
• Added workaround to overcome Firefox bug which caused the extension .htm to be added to pdf OEE Report file names.
• Fixed issue whereby User Interface displayed error message following the ChangeOrder operation for StationYield Views

Installer

• Removed requirement to install dotNet 2