| · | Family Tooling - Family Tooling is designed to allow the collection and tracking of data by child job. Management will receive a much more detailed picture of production, rejects, history, and pieces made for each family job. Family Tooling allows up to twelve child jobs running, at one time, on a machine.
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| · | Labor Tracking - Labor Tracking is designed to forecast, collect, and report labor hours by machine, job, shift, or employee. Labor is collected and tracked by personnel logging in and out at a DCM. The same person or people and be logged onto one or many machines at the same time depending on the work being done. For these reasons, it is not a time and attendance system. It will provide a window to where and how labor is used on the shop floor. It can also report time spent at the machine support personnel. As a job history is developed the job history labor reports can be used to forecast staffing requirements on a shift or weekly basis.
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| · | Shot Tracker - PlantStar Panorama is pleased to introduce Shot Tracker. This new tracking feature timestamps and logs information for each cycle of the machine.
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| · | OPC Client - PlantStar Panorama has joined the OPC era with the introduction of an OPC client. This client will connect to any OPC certified server to deliver data to the PlantStar Panorama system.
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| · | Increased Performance - Because of PlantStar Panorama improved capabilities, retrieval of job data is more robust than previous versions. The most noticeable areas are the loading of the Job Schedule Board and retrieval of Product Standards.
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| · | Improved Job Editing Capabilities - All job editing screen (Job Schedule Board, Current/Queue Jobs, Work Orders, Product Standards) have been recreated. The result has given a more powerful job editor. A partial list of features include: enhanced field editing, pop up date calendars, integrated job list, family tooling capabilities.
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| · | Column Resizing - Most PlantStar Panorama screens now allow you to resize the columns the way that you see fit.
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| · | Column Sorting - Some of the Shop Floor Monitor screens now allow the sorting of the columns of data. This can be achieved by clicking the column heading you wish to sort. The following screens have column sorting capabilities:
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| · | Job Queue Editing - Queue jobs can now be edited from the Current/Queue Job window, as well as the Job Schedule Board. Previous versions only allowed editing, of queue jobs, from the Job Schedule Board.
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| · | Case Insensitive Search - Searches no longer require the search criteria to match the case of the expected result. This is most noticeable in the Job Schedule Board, Product Standards, and the Material Lot Tracking screens.
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| · | Job Schedule Board Search - The search capabilities within the job schedule board have been expanded to search on more fields. Now all the available fields from the filtering function are included in the search function.
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| · | HTML Help - Previous versions of PlantStar Panorama used WinHelp.
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