Provideam V4.1 is currently in Beta Testing and is due to be released in early November 2011. Below are some of the updates and enhancements we have packed in to this release. Please contact DTL if you would like to schedule an early update to V4.1.
Look and Feel
- Standardised Look and Feel of User Interface
- Added Ability to resize screen areas
- Added more data to overall configuration tables. Administrator can now see more data without having to drill down.
- Added sorting and filtering to configuration tables
- Improved the CSV Import/Export facility for configuration data.
New Features
- Added ability to link OEE Live view to external urls (eg. www.google.com)
- Added ability to link OEE Live view to 3rd party html pages. These pages may be linked to Provideam or may be related to other issues such as personnel messages.
- Added Contact Lists for Scheduled Reporting and Alarming. The Administrator can now create lists of users Email, Pager or Mobile(Cell) contacts. These contact lists can then be used for
- alarm annunciation or for scheduled reporting.
- Added a visual Alarm Status Indicated to the Active Alarms Page of the Event Monitoring Application
- Added an automatic refresh option to the Current Status and Active Alarms Page of the Event Monitoring Application
Modifications
The User Security Model has been updated to facilitate more straightforward integration with Active Directory. Users are now created independently from User Groups. User Groups still control access rights but now a User can be a member of several User Groups. If the User is a member of more than one User Group then the User takes the combined rights of both User Groups.
In addition the User contact details have been upgraded. It is now possible to assign several (or none) Email/Mobile(Cell)/Pager contacts to each User. If the User contact details are modified, the details in the Contact Lists will also be updated – thus simplifying greatly the management of scheduled emailing and alarm annunciation.
Modified the Installer so that the Provideam Database is installed without Demo Data. It is now an install option to install Demo Data.
Operating Environment and 3rd Party Applications
IE 9 and Firefox 6 Support
Windows 7 and Windows 2008 Support
MS SQL 2008 support
dotNet 4 Native Application (SQL 2005 requires dotNet 2 and SQL 2008 requires dotNet 3.5)
We are very excited to announce the release of version 3.11 of the Provideam OEE Monitoring Solution. There are a number of significant enhancements in version 3 which will no doubt be very beneficial to our customers;
- Installer / Updater
The most radical change has been to re-engineering the Provideam Installer. Provideam is an enterprise level application and as such draws on a number of third party applications including a database server, an OPC server etc. In the past the Provideam installer relied on the end user to install these third party applications independently. To significantly reduce the complexity of the install process these applications have now been included in the installer and will be installed automatically. In addition the uninstall process has been modified. To guard against inadvertent data loss the previous version of the installer did not remove the database. This will no longer be the case. The uninstaller will now completely remove Provideam from the server.
- Downtime Configuration
Provideam installs as an OEE application by default. However a number of customers prefer a simpler Downtime Analysis which does not convert Good and Defect Counts to time values. An option is now available to re-configure Provideam as a Production Downtime Monitoring Solution.
- Dashboard (Overall Data Table) View Management
A new Dashboard View Management Tool has been incorporated in the Area Admin section which allows the Provideam Administrator to configure a selection of views for each Area.
- Station Yield View Management
As well as configurable Dashboard Views, configurable Station Yield Views is also a feature of ProvideamV3.11. Several Station Yield Views can be configured for each Machine. The Station Yield View Management interface is included in the Machine Admin section of Provideam.
- Live Display to include AndOn view
The AndOn Display which was recently introduced into the OEE Dashboard Current Status page can now also be included in the Provideam Live Real-time Status View.
- OEE Monitoring Module to support Manual OPC Tag Creation
Traditionally, the Provideam OEE Monitoring and Event Monitoring Module only supported OPC Servers which allowed the client application to enumerate pre-configured tags. This prevented Provideam from working with a number of industry recognised OPC Servers. It is now possible to chose to enumerate an OPC Tag or to manual create the Tag. The ‘OPC Enum’ function will enumerate pre-configured OPC Tags, where as the ‘OPC Manual’ function will allow the configurator to manually enter OPC Tags which will be added to the OPC server at run-time.
To check if you are currently a ‘Supported User’ please contact support@provideam.com