6.7.0

With release 6.7.0, we are very pleased to deliver our new integration to the Microsoft Azure Active Directory. System Administrators can now enforce sign on privileges from a single directory. This of course comes with the added benefit of enforcing multifactor authentication if you so choose.  Setup requires 3 steps.

1. Provide the MESTEC app permission access your Azure AD
2. Step two is completed on MESTEC end. So please contact support and we’ll get you started.
3. Federate each user account. This can be done from the Users screen. Select the account. Click the Link AzureAD button. Federated accounts are easily identified with the Microsoft icon. Please note that prior to federating an account users can still login with the MESTEC Directory. Just click on the intentionally small link below the login button. 

Checklist Upgrades 

We have improved our new Quality Module with 5 feature improvements to the Checklist. 

1 - The first improvement is designed to give operators a speedy experience when completing checklists on the shop floor. With our initial release of the checklist each new data entry would trigger a noticeable screen refresh. This has now been eliminated allowing users to traverse the checklist without interruption.

2 - New checklists can now be rapidly created by copying an existing checklist. The new ‘Copy’ feature can be found by selecting the desired Checklist on the Checklist screen.

3 - Checklist results are stored against the device history and can now be viewed in Item Status screen. To recall checklist results search for the item, then select Check Results in the View field.  

4 - We’ve added a SUID field to the checklist header. Users can now use this field as an external reference.   

5 - We have loosened the rollback rules. From the Item Status screen, users can rollback to a previous operation. Previously, once a checklist item had been completed in the workflow the rollback feature was no longer available on future operations. To make this more user friendly the rollback has been reinstated. However, users can only rollback operations until they reach a checklist action. Users cannot rollback a checklist or rollback to an operation prior to a checklist action.  

Dynamic Instructions  

In prior releases the instruction text on an action item was static. Each workflow and operation that used the action displayed an identical Instruction label. With Dynamic Instructions users can now enter dynamic fields into the instruction text. This means the instruction label can now display a specific reference from any field that can be queried… job properties, product properties, operation properties, BOM data, or job data etc. With dynamic instructions, it becomes much easier to use a shared action item throughout different workflows.  

Item Case Data Reporting 

We have added two additional fields to Item Case Data Reporting. Users can now see who was the last to enter case data and when. 

Open Tasks

Users may want to visualize which orders are currently open not at a given operation but inside an entire workflow. This can be particularly useful when tracking the parent data of an item in rework. This can be viewed from the Workflow screen by selecting the desired workflow then selecting the Open Tasks button.