VERSION HIGHLIGHTS
Matics 3.4 launches Multisite, a powerful portal designed to streamline corporate production management. In this release, Multisite provides real-time metrics for all of your corporation's sites, accessible through a single, dynamic dashboard. Additionally, Multisite integrates robust, interactive BI reports. It's important to note that Multisite is undergoing intensive development and will bring even more features in future updates, including effective enterprise-wide communication and the enforcement of corporate standards.
Distinguishing between planned downtime and unplanned downtime is essential for effective production-time management. In this version, we've added the ability to tag stop-event groups with these classifications, enabling you to analyze your data through relevant new insights. These downtime classifications support the goal of minimizing unplanned downtime and optimizing planned downtime.
Another significant enhancement in this release is the inclusion of the production line master view on the machine page, which provides comprehensive data for the entire production line through its various data components.
These are the key highlights of this version. For details about all the improvements introduced in this release, please continue reading.
MULTISITE
This release marks the inception of Multisite, a new Matics portal streamlining the management of multiple facilities. Multisite serves as a high-level corporate management tool, empowering organizations to establish consistent enterprise-wide standards, goals, terminology, and facilitate seamless communication of best practices and organizational values.
Multisite is atop all Matics apps and, in this initial phase, provides real-time metrics for all corporate sites, presented in a dynamic dashboard. Additionally, it offers robust and interactive Business Intelligence (BI) reports. These tools are highly effective for conducting concurrent performance comparisons and benchmark analyses across multiple sites.
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QC
Redesigned UI
Enjoy the QC module's updated look & feel!
Ordering and executing tests is now based on a redesigned interface.
You also have more control in designing the test form to improve the form's usability when presented to testers. Define the width of text fields and columns to optimally accommodate the possible test results. Also, you can determine where to start a new row (insert line breaks).
Enforce QC test running
You can now enforce the running of a specific QC test before changing the job from an active job to another status and/or before activating another job. Set this at either the machine type level or at the machine level.
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INSIGHTS
Production lines
New! Insight 252: Distribution of stop event groups by production line. At the department level it's per the selected production line department. At the factory level the data in this insight reflect all departments configured as production lines. A percentage of 100% will present each and every stop event group, while lower percentages will consolidate groups with less data together.
Insight 223: Distribution of stop event reasons in production line - Pareto was updated to examine the line's stops per the line as a holistic entity. The line entity reflects the line's configuration, that is, which machines impact the line's performance and should be considered for logging downtime. (Previous logic did not have this level of sophistication of discerning between machines that should contribute to the line's performance and those that shouldn't impact it.)
Insight 224: Distribution of stop events to event groups in production line - Pareto was updated to examine the line's event groups per the line as a holistic entity. (Refer to insight 223 above for an explanation of the line holistic entity and the preceding logic.)
Stop time classification
Efficiently managing time in production is crucial, as it's a valuable resource. To achieve this, it's essential to understand how this time is utilized. Of specific interest is separating planned downtime from unplanned downtime.
In the latest version, we have improved the way we classify stop event reasons by grouping them together. When defining an Event Group, you tag it with one the broader classifications of Planned Stop, Unplanned Stop, or Unscheduled Time stop. The reasons within the group automatically inherit the group's classification. This enables managers to better manage their planned downtime.
For example, if you had initially planned to allocate 10 hours a week for planned maintenance but discover it actually consumed 20 hours, this information can significantly enhance your future planning processes.
This added level of granularity flows into the following new and enhanced insights for examining the distribution of time within the production process. These insights offer a detailed breakdown of reasons for unplanned downtime and present the proportions of production time categories using pie charts and waterfall diagrams.
New! Insight #254: Time distribution - Waterfall shows a waterfall of stop time categories: unscheduled (idle) time, planned downtime, unplanned downtime.
New! Insight #255: Time consumption distribution - by machine presents for each machine bar the distribution of its production time, planned downtime, unplanned downtime and unscheduled (idle) time.
New! Insight #256: Time consumption distribution - by period is an area chart that presents the time consumption trends per the set period.
Insight #249: Time consumption distribution - Pie chart now presents production time in addition to planned downtime, unplanned downtime and unscheduled idle time.
TIP
A new type of filter called Event Filters was added to the Insights global filter. It includes the option of filtering data by time classifications (planned downtime, unplanned downtime and unscheduled (idle) time). This filtering option was also added to the local filter of relevant insights.
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PRODUCTION LINE MASTER VIEW
The line's master view was added to the machine page. Selecting the line will open a page dedicated to the line, meaning the presented data (aggregated performance, widgets etc.) are calculations for the line, not for individual machines.
In this view, the widget library offers widgets that render line data.
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MISCELLANEOUS IMPROVEMENTS
Machine page
Use any of the new preconfigured widgets that were added to the machine's page Widgets Library:
ERP job progress - for real-time information about the ERP job's progress relative to this entire job's duration.
ERP job progress for shift - for real-time information about the ERP job's progress relative to the current shift's targets
Shift progress - for real-time information of production progress relative to the sum of all josh targets that were or are still active in this current shift.
Rearrange the machine's widgets dashboard by dragging and dropping target widgets to the desired location.
If you want to reposition the timeline widget that's by default at the top of the page, do so via drag & drop. Since the timeline and Process Control chart are synched in the time range displayed, that is zooming in (or out) on the timeline will zoom in (or out) on the Process Control chart and vice versa, moving the timeline bundles the Process Control chart with it and both will be moved to the desired location.
[Web app]
Online dashboard
The ERP job progress , ERP job progress for shift and Shift progress widgets (detailed above) are also available for the department view's Online dashboard detailed machine tiles.
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Tablet
The widgets ERP job progress for shift and the Shift progress (detailed above) are available for the tablet's main dashboard as well.
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Rules
Longer interval periods (quarterly, annually) were added to the existing recurring interval choices.
Assign tasks to multiple assignees in one-go through bulk-tasking.
Trigger a mold maintenance action before reaching the value of the mold's maintenance standard.
[Web app]
Printing interfaces
'Quick Print' labels
A new option was added to the Inventory module for quickly printing labels that are based on the job ID.
BarTender integration
BarTender's Automation Edition label printing solution has been integrated with Matics. It offers intelligent templates with commercial quality design capabilities for designing the label's structure and populating the labels with Matics data.
XSLT templates will still be supported.
Printing queue report
A new system report called Labels Print Queue was added to the Inventory category. It is populated with the labels' current print queue. This report enables detecting problematic congestion, since if the print service is running efficiently, this report will be empty.
[Web app]
Tasks
Task Management's new Calendar view
If you want to see tasks within a calendar context, you can now switch between Kanban view to Calendar view. Calendar view presents tasks with start and end dates that are either in To Do status or In Progress status.
[Web app]
Notification for newly opened task
From now on signed-in users will find it difficult to miss that they've got a new task. A blinking notification is presented each time a new task is opened for them and will continue to blink until the task is completed.
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Data sync
Event reasons and event groups can now be imported via manual data sync.
The system now supports the import of a production line's product recipes via manual data sync to populate automatically the production line's jobs with each machine type's correct production values.
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PREVIOUS RELEASE NOTES
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