GE Digital APM Release Notes for V4.3.0.7.0

Action Management

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 1. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
To enhance usability, in the Recommended Actions section, the email address value entered in the From field in the Email Settings page is now used when you configure a Recommended Action to send an alert.US296242
To maintain consistency, in the Recommendations pane, State Management is now controlled by the same functionality as other GE Digital APM modules.US283474
Table 2. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, if your culture setting had a culture other than English, and you accessed the Recommendation Filters window, the States were not translated to the language based on your culture setting. This issue has been resolved.DE96432
Previously, if your database contained a large number of actions, and you navigated to the workspace, the process sometimes timed out. This issue has been resolved.DE93594
Previously, in the Recommended Actions tab, if you selected the Filter button (), the list of possible options was not properly localized. This issue has been resolved.DE93359
Previously, in the Recommended Actions pane, the state of Recommended Actions was not properly localized. This issue has been resolved.DE89662

APM Connect

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

V4.3.0.7.0

Table 3. Enhancements

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
The Automatic Data Loader now provides a way to change the processing order of the directories.US312179
Table 4. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, EAM or data loader jobs would occasionally end without updating the status correctly. This issue has been resolved.
  • DE97417
  • US318351

APM Mobile Application

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 5. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
The GE Digital APM mobile application now supports iOS 12 devices.US290963
The GE Digital APM mobile application now supports Single Sign-On (SSO) for devices with Android, Windows, and iOS operating systems. This feature enables you to log in to the GE Digital APM mobile application using the SSO login page of your organization. US186119
Table 6. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when you uninstalled the GE Digital APM mobile application from a Windows device, the uninstall script attempted to remove the application package from the WindowsApps folder. As a result of client or security restrictions, this sometimes caused the app package to be corrupted, and the uninstallation only partially succeeded. This issue has been resolved.DE88027
Previously, the GE Digital APM mobile application sometimes appeared as unavailable on a Windows device. This issue has been resolved. DE88027

Asset Criticality Analysis

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 7. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
To maintain consistency in the <Asset Name> page, Asset Criticality Analysis has been moved to the Strategy section.US325270
To enhance usability in the Assessment workspace, the Assess button () has been updated to .US318204
To enhance usability when loading checklist records, the Asset Criticality Analysis (ACA Checklist) Data Loader has been added.US316936
To enhance usability, in the Assessment workspace, you can select multiple assets contained within a single analysis for assessment.US316803
To enhance usability, a new relationship family, Asset Criticality Analysis Has Assets, has been added.US310611
To enhance usability, in the Assessment workspace, an Add Asset button has been added.US310611
To enhance usability, a new column, Criticality, has been added to the Analyses section of the Asset Criticality Overview page.US309200
To enhance usability in the Assessment workspace, functionality to export an analysis has been added.US302496
From the ACA Overview page, you can now link assets to a new or existing ACA Analysis, Asset Strategy, FMEA Analysis, RBI Asset View, RCM Analysis, or System Strategy. To facilitate this enhancement, a Send To button has been added in the Assets section.
  • US301725
  • US299992
To enhance usability, the performance of the Asset Criticality Analysis (ACA) Data Loader has been improved.US300817
To enhance usability in the Analysis Details section, functionality to access Reference Documents has been added.US300551
To enhance usability in the Assessment workspace, you can now simultaneously assess multiple assets in an analysis.
  • US300471
  • US316803
To enhance usability, in the Assessment workspace, you can now add assets to and unlink assets from an analysis.US300392
To enhance usability in the Analysis Details page, the Assessment section now contains a table that displays all assets associated with the selected analysis.US300152
To enhance usability, in the Analysis Details page, in the Assessment section, the Asset Criticality Distribution chart has been added.US300151
To aid in efficiency, the State Configuration workflow that is defined for the ACA family has been simplified.US300148
To enhance usability, in the Asset Criticality Overview page, the Analyses section has been redesigned.US300143
To enhance usability, in the Asset Criticality Overview page, the new Assets section replaces the My Analyses section, which has been deprecated.US299979
To enhance usability, a new chart, Assets Assessed, has been added to the Overview page. The Assets Assessed chart displays a breakdown of the numbers of pieces of equipment that are ranked based on criticality.
  • US299973
  • US317769
To enhance usability in the Analysis Details page, the maximum Criticality value is now displayed in the page header.US299694
To enhance usability, AMS Asset integration has been added to populate the Assessment field in Criticality records.US294959
Table 8. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, if you attempted to update the criticality indicator values in SAP to reflect the criticality value that you determined in GE Digital APM and the connection failed, the incorrect error message appeared. This issue has been resolved.DE89715
Previously, in the Risk section of the Analysis Summary page, if you accessed an analysis whose associated Risk Matrix record had the Use Aliases? check box selected, the Total Risk value on the risk assessment appeared as a numeric value instead of an alias value.DE89669
Previously, if you attempted to use the Asset Criticality Analysis (ACA) Data Loader to load a file containing more than 1,000 assets using an Oracle database, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.DE86971
Table 9. Obsolete Features

As of this release, the following items are no longer available.

DescriptionTracking ID
All administrative Asset Criticality Analysis functions, previously accessed via the Application Settings page, have been deprecated.US300819
AMS Asset integration is no longer supported by the Risk Assessment family, as it is now used by the Criticality family.US294959

Asset Health Manager

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 10. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
In the AHM Admin page, in the Health Indicator Source Management workspace, the Include All Matching and Exclude All Matching buttons have been removed. These buttons have been replaced by the Resync Health Indicators button, which you can use to resync health indicators if the list of health indicator sources becomes out of sync with the actual list of available health indicators.
  • US327899
  • US272011
To enable more efficient navigation of health indicator sources, the Status and Do not automatically create health indicator columns have been removed from the Health Indicator Source Management workspace in the AHM Admin page. These two columns have been replaced by one new column, Included, which displays a check mark when a health indicator source is used to create health indicators and which appears empty when a source is not used to create health indicators.
To facilitate this enhancement, a new field, Include as Health Indicator Source Field, has been added to the Health Indicator Mapping family. In addition, a new field, Include as Health Indicator Source, has replaced the Do Not Automatically Create Health Indicator field in the following families:
  • Checkpoint
  • Checkpoint Template
  • Measurement Location
  • Measurement Location Template
  • US305616
  • US305290
Table 11. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous releases have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
If Home was selected in the Asset Hierarchy, when you attempted to access the Health Summary page, the page could take a long time to load, and, in some cases, the page failed to load.DE100129
Previously, if you loaded a large number of assets into a database, the Health Indicator Status by Asset graph loaded very slowly or, in some cases, timed out and did not load at all. This issue has been resolved. Now, the performance of the Health Indicator Status by Asset graph is significantly improved. DE93292

Asset Hierarchy

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 12. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
In the Hierarchy section, for the following scenarios, a message appears at the bottom of the hierarchy, indicating that there are too many records available in the hierarchy, and you can use the search or filter option to find the required equipment or functional location.
  • If more than or equal to 500 top-level records are available in the hierarchy.
  • If more than or equal to 500 child equipment or functional locations are available for a parent functional location.
  • If you search for an equipment or a functional location, and the search results contain 500 or more equipment or functional locations.
US322281
Table 13. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, while accessing the data for an asset in the <Asset Name> workspace, if you navigated away from the workspace and then attempted to access the data for the asset, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved. DE92693
Previously, if you specified filter criteria and selected an asset to view the data in the <Asset Name> workspace, when you navigated away from the workspace, and then attempted to access the data in the <Asset Name> workspace, the filter criteria that you specified was cleared. This issue has been resolved.DE92877

Asset Strategy Implementation

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 14. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in the ASI Overview page, you could create multiple ASI Packages with the same value in the Package ID field. Now, when creating ASI Packages, the value in the Package ID field must be unique.US303572
Table 15. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in the ASI Package page, if you selected the Add button (+), the list of possible Work Management Items (WMIs) that you could add to the parent ASI Package was not properly localized.DE89198

Asset Strategy Management

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 16. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
To enhance usability, the Criticality Value button () has been updated to .US318204
A new query, Asset Strategy Action Revisions Query, has been added to the Catalog folder \\Public\Meridium\Modules\Asset Strategy Management\Management\Queries. The Asset Strategy Action Revisions Query is used by the ASM Implement Actions workspace to allow customizations of columns representing fields from the Action family.US307521
To enhance usability, in the ASM Overview page, you can now export one or more Asset Strategy Templates.US294957
To enhance usability, in the ASM Overview page, you can now export one or more Asset Strategies.US291223
To enhance usability, in the Implement Actions section, you can now apply updates to Actions that are implemented by EAM Plan or EAM Plan Details records.US165018
To enhance integration, in the ASM Overview page, you can now create Actions from an EAM Plan.US164318
To enhance integration, in the ASM Overview page, you can now link Actions to an EAM Plan.US164312
Table 17. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when applying a template in ASM, an error may have occurred which caused one or more Actions to not be linked to Risks. This issue has been resolved.DE103599

Calibration Management

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 18. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
You can now perform a manual calibration on tasks with Fluke 74X templates. To facilitate this enhancement, in the Calibration Queue section, the Manual Calibration button is enabled for tasks whose device type is Fluke 74X.US306467
You can now use Kilopascal (KPA) and Megapascal (MPA) as units of measurement (UOM) in a calibration template while performing calibration on the Fluke device. To facilitate this enhancement, KPA and MPA UOMs are now available for you to add to the CALIBRATION UOM PRESSURE reference table by selecting the MI_CALIBRATION_REFERENCES system code table.US298314
To enhance usability, the Calibration Data Loader worksheets have been renamed as follows:
Old Worksheet NameNew Worksheet Name
MI_TESTEQUIPTest Equipment
MI_TST_EQUIP_HISTTest Equipment History
MI_SGCY0000Standard Gas Cylinder
MI_SGCM0000Standard Gas Component
PROF_TEMPLATESProfile Template
MI_CAL_PROFCalibration Profile
MI_TMCAAN00Analog Template
MI_TMCADSCTDiscrete Template
MI_TMCASCANSingle Component Template
MI_TMCAMCANMulti Component Template
MI_TDCAAN00Single Comp Temp Detail
MI_TASKCALBCalibration Task
MI_EVENTSCalibration Event
MI_RESULTSCalibration Result
MI_RECCLBNCalibration Recommendation
Note: Data Loaders with old worksheet names will also be supported.
US294225

The Calibration Management module now supports calibration of Functional Location and custom asset.

You can now map any of the fields of the Equipment, Functional Location, or custom asset family as an asset ID, which is used to construct the Applied Template ID and in the data loader to find the asset.

To facilitate this enhancement, the following changes have been made:

  • A new workspace, Asset ID Configuration, has been added to the Calibration Admin Preferences page, where you can create, update, or delete an Asset ID Configuration record.
  • A new family, Calibration Asset Configuration, has been created.
  • Equipment and Functional Location families are configured as baseline and are available in the Asset ID Configuration.
  • New catalog queries, Asset ID Configuration List Query, Calibration Asset ID Query, and Calibration_Device_Result, have been created.
  • Functional Location mapping is added to all the existing Device Mappings.
  • SSRS Reports, Graphs, and the existing catalog queries are updated to include Functional Location.
  • Data Loaders are modified to support Functional Location or custom asset. In the Calibration Data Loader worksheets, the following changes have been made:
    Worksheet NameOld Field IDOld Field CaptionNew Field IDNew Field Caption
    Analog Template, Discrete Template, Single Component Template, Multi Component TemplateMI_TMCA0000_ASSET_KEY_NAsset KeyASSET_ID

    Asset ID

    Analog Template, Discrete Template, Single Component Template, Multi Component TemplateMI_TMCA0000_ASSET_FAM_KEY_NAsset Family KeyASSET_FAMILY_IDAsset Family ID
    Calibration TaskMI_TASK_RELAT_ENTIT_ID_CHRAsset IDASSET_IDAsset ID
    Calibration EventMI_EVENT_ASSET_KEY_NAsset KeyASSET_IDAsset ID
    Calibration RecommendationMI_RECCLBN_EQUIP_KEY_CAsset KeyASSET_IDAsset ID

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Table 19. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in the Channel/Modules section, when you tried to access the Protective Instrument Loop Logic Solver Channel for a Protective Instrument Loop or a PIL Template, a blank datasheet appeared. This issue has been resolved.DE103480
Previously, when you accessed a localized version of the Calibration Management module, the following issues occurred:
  • After you received data from the CMX calibrator, in the Calibration Results section, the values saved in the Overall AF Error Max and Overall AL Error Max fields were incorrect. For example, suppose you had logged in as a German user, and the reading in the CMX device was 12.5. In that case, instead of 12,5, you received 125.
  • When you sent data to the Fluke or Druck calibrator, the data was sent successfully, but an error message appeared in the calibrator, specifying that the value was out of range.
  • If you attempted to receive data from the calibrator, you received the data, but rows in the Download Calibration Checklists section appeared blank.

These issues have been resolved.

  • DE102233
  • DE101992
  • DE101579
Previously, if the Task ID field in a Calibration Task contained a slash (/) character, and you attempted to perform an automated calibration using a CMX device or a manual calibration, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.DE101587
Previously, when CalibrationDataModelUpgradeUtility was run to upgrade to V4.2.0.0 or later, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.DE101561
Previously, if you sent calibration data to a GE Druck calibrator and performed only the as-found calibration, you could not receive data from the calibrator. This issue has been resolved.DE101348
Previously, in the Calibration Queue section in the Calibration Management Overview page, if you filtered for a specific asset, although the number in the Calibration Queue tab was updated with the number of records for the new asset, the list of records in this section remained the same. This issue has been resolved.DE100627
Previously, in the Calibration Data Loader, for each Recommendation that you wanted to create in a batch, only the first Recommendation was created. Due to this, multiple records were created for the first Recommendation in the batch, and no records were created for the rest of the Recommendations. This issue has been resolved.DE94856
Previously, in the Calibration Admin Preferences page, in the Default Configurations workspace, when you did not select a value in the Input Damping Setting, Output Damping Setting, or Input Min Max Mode drop-down list box, and then tried to add a calibration template, an error occurred. The issue occurred because these fields were being populated by the MI_DAMPING_TYPE system code table, which did not match the default values provided in the Input Damping Setting, Output Damping Setting, or Input Min Max Mode fields in the Calibration Setup Defaults record. This issue has been resolved. Now, the fields are populated by the MI_STATUS system code table instead of the MI_DAMPING_TYPE system code table.DE93938
Previously, in the Calibration Data Loader, in the MI_EVENTS worksheet, when you added a Cylinder ID column with a cylinder ID value, and then attempted to import data for a Calibration, Multi-Component Analyzer event, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.DE91121

Previously, if you sent data to a Fluke calibrator using a template with the following settings, the output UOM was set to mV:

  • The input UOM was set to mA.
  • The Manual Entered Output Values and Custom Output Values check boxes were selected.

Due to this, the output value in the calibrator was recorded in mV. This issue has been resolved.

DE91098

Previously, in the Download Calibration Checklists section of the Receive From Device window, after receiving data from the GE Druck calibrator, the following issues existed:

  • In the Data subsection, the status of the records received was incorrectly displayed as zero.
  • In the Log subsection, the progress of the records received was incorrectly displayed as zero.

These issues have been resolved.

DE82718
Table 20. Obsolete Features

As of this release, the following items are no longer available.

DescriptionTracking ID
The MI_DAMPING_TYPE system code table is no longer used in Calibration Management. This is because the values in the system code table did not match with the values in the baseline default configuration.DE93938

Compliance Management

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

V4.3.0.7.0

Table 21. Enhancements and New FeaturesThe following enhancements and new features have been added.
DescriptionTracking ID

The Compliance Management module has been introduced in V4.3.0.7.0.

You can use this module to create Inspection Plans that adhere to inspection requirements set by regulatory bodies, corporate guidelines, or industry best practices.

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APM Data Extraction

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 22. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
APM Data Extraction service has been introduced in this release. This service has been implemented based on OData v4.01 specification. Using this service, you can expose your APM database, enabling entities to be accessed using an Open Data interface. Reporting and Business Intelligence tools using OData requests can read this exposed data with the help of simple queries, enabling you to visualize and analyze the data.F40154
Table 23. Known Issues

The following issues are unresolved in this release.

DescriptionTracking ID
Data filters are not supported in Unit of Measurement (UOM) fields.DE103033
Data formatting options such as time zone conversions, currency formats, and number formats are not supported.DE102126

Data Loaders UDLP V2.6.0

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

V4.3.0.7.0

Table 24. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when a request from a data loader job running in the database timed out, the job status incorrectly appeared as Dataloader Enqueued. Now, the job status correctly appears as Cancelled.DE91700

Data Permissions

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 25. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
In the Assign Users window, you can now search for a Security User using the User ID of the Security User.US291131
Table 26. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when you attempted to search for a family, the search results displayed only the families whose names started with the exact string that you specified in the search criteria. This issue has been resolved. Now, you can search for all the families whose names contain the string that you specify in the search criteria.DE87016

eLog

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 27. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID

To define your work routine, you can now perform the following tasks:

  • Sign in to a Shift.
  • Create log entries for the Shift.
  • Add comments to the log entries.
  • Create Primary Events for the log entries.
  • Complete assignments for the Shift.
  • Submit the assignments for review.
  • Approve or reject the assignments.
  • Resubmit the assignments for review.
  • Access the sign-in and sign-out logs for the Shift.
  • Sign out of the Shift.
  • End the session of a Team Member.
To facilitate this enhancement, the following changes have been made:
  • In the eLog Overview page, the following sections have been introduced:
    • All Log Entries
    • Sign-in/Sign-out Logs
    • STATUS OF ASSIGNMENTS
    • LOG ENTRIES BY TYPE
    • TOP 5 SHIFTS WITH HIGHEST NUMBER OF LOG ENTRIES
  • The Shift Summary page has been introduced.
  • The following families have been created:
    • eLog Entry, which contains the following subfamilies:
      • eLog General Entry
      • eLog Generation Event
    • eLog Entry Comment
    • eLog Login
  • The MI_ELOG_ENTRY_STATUS System Code Table has been created.
  • US322403
  • US316724
  • US316276
  • US314262
  • US308158
  • US293274
  • US293273
  • US292312
  • US292108
  • US279846
You can now manage settings for the eLog module using the eLog Administration page. To facilitate this enhancement, the eLog module has been added to the Application Settings. In addition, the following changes have been made:
  • The following families have been created:
    • Data Entry Form Definition
    • Data Entry Form Field
    • eLog Entry Type Color
    • eLog Role Configuration
    • eLog Template
  • The following System Code Tables have been created:
    • MI_ELOG_ROLES
    • MI_ELOG_TEMPLATE_GEN_ON
    • MI_ELOG_TEMPLATE_PRIORITY
    • MI_ELOG_TEMPLATE_TYPE
    • MI_ELOG_TYPE
    • MI_ELOGTYPE_COLOR
    • MI_FF_TYPE
  • US312351
  • US311141
  • US295161
  • US291851
  • US281062
You can now access, create, and delete a Shift. To facilitate this enhancement, the Shifts section is added to the eLog Administration page. In addition, the following fields have been added to the Shift family:
  • Description
  • End Date
  • End Time
  • Functional Location
  • Start Date
  • Start Time
  • Teams
US281062
In the Shift Records topic, the following fields have now been included:
  • Description
  • End Date
  • End Time
  • Functional Location
  • Start Date
  • Start Time
  • Teams

In addition, the Shift ID field has been named the Shift Name field.

US281062
Table 28. Obsolete Features

As of this release, the following items are no longer available.

DescriptionTracking ID
The Log Entry family and its subfamilies have been replaced with a new family, eLog Entry.US311105
In the Graphs folder, the Log Entries by Type item has been deprecated.US311105
In the Queries folder, the following items have been deprecated:
  • All Shift in eLog
  • List of Log Entries
  • List of Log Entries for Calendar
  • List of My Log Entries
  • Log Entries By Type
  • Report - All Log Entry Types
  • Report - Log Entry, Shift Transition
US311105
The following System Code Tables have been deprecated:
  • MI_LOG_CAUSE
  • MI_LOG_DURATION_UNITS
  • MI_LOG_IMPACTS
  • MI_LOG_INJURY_SEVERITY
  • MI_LOG_MITIGATINGS
  • MI_LOG_UTILITY_TYPE
US311105

Family Management

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 29. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
When you attempt to update the existing records for a given family with the modified record ID, now, a new job, UpdateTemplateIDJob, is created in the Schedule Logs page to update the existing records. This enhancement significantly improves the performance of the system while updating the records in bulk.US299142
The first report that you associate with a family becomes the default report for the family.US293868
You can now hide a datasheet belonging to a family that you do not want to appear for the corresponding records. To facilitate this functionality, the Hide check box has been added to the Datasheet Information window of the Datasheet Builder page.US290738
Table 30. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, if a newly created field had been added to a datasheet belonging to the Checklist Findings family, and you attempted to access a checklist category for an inspection belonging to a checklist inspection family, an error message appeared, indicating that the datasheet failed to load. This issue has been resolved.DE101578
Previously, in the Manage ID Template window, while entering a delimiter for a field in the Delimiter box, if you entered a space, the space did not appear in the New ID Template value in the following scenarios:
  • Space is the only character in the entered value.
  • Space is the first or last character in the entered value.
This issue has been resolved.
DE92913

Failure Modes and Effects Analysis

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 31. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
To enhance usability, in the Analysis Details pane, the following lists are now sorted alphabetically:
  • Assets
  • Failure Effects
  • Failure Modes
US302942
To enhance usability, in the Analysis Details page, the number of associated records now appears as a count in the following sections:
  • Linked Assets
  • Reference Documents
  • Reports
  • Team Members
US301505
To avoid timeout issues, in the Analysis Details workspace, Asset Strategy Management promotion is now a background operation.US291070
To maintain consistency, in the Recommendations pane, State Management is now controlled by the same functionality as other GE Digital APM modules.US283474
To enhance usability, in the Analysis Details page, in the Decision Logic section of the Failure Effect workspace, the decision logic workflow has been condensed and simplified.US274365
Table 32. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
To avoid timeout issues, in the Analysis Details workspace, Asset Strategy Management promotion is now a background operation.DE97426
Previously, in the Import Data section, when you attempted to execute the Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) Data Loader, an error could appear in the log. This issue has been resolved.DE95839

Family Policies

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 33. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
To improve the performance of the Predix Time Series node, the default number of readings that the Predix Time Series node retrieves from a Time Series data source has been reduced from 500000 to 10000.US327520
The Edit Entity node now updates records from a collection of values irrespective of the name of the collection column containing the entity keys. To facilitate this enhancement, the Entity Key Column drop-down list box has been added to the Properties window for the Edit Entity node where you can specify the collection column containing the entity keys.US314481
The minimum time interval that you can configure to run a job that deletes the execution history logs from the database is now increased to one hour.
Note: If you had specified the time interval value for the job in minutes, the specified value is rounded up to the nearest value in hours, and the updated value appears in the Execution History Settings workspace. However, the job will continue to run at the time intervals that you had specified until you save the modified settings for the job.
US311726
You can now access the execution details of a sub policy from the calling policy. To facilitate this enhancement, the View Execution Details link, which can be used to view the policy model and execution details of the sub policy in a separate window, has been added to the Node Execution Details window for the Sub Policy node.US306756
You can now configure a policy to apply an asset strategy template to an asset or asset strategy. To facilitate this enhancement, the Apply Strategy Template node has been added to the Actions section of the toolbar in the Design workspace.US298658
You can now convert the output value of a node to another data type. To facilitate this enhancement, the Convert Type node has been added to the Calculations section of the toolbar in the Design workspace.US297271
In the Properties window for the Create Alert and Query Alerts nodes, the Asset UUID field has been renamed Asset Unique ID.
  • DE90491
  • DE90280
Table 34. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, if Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) stopped responding or could not be accessed, the Policy Trigger Service and Policy Execution Service failed to automatically reconnect with MSMQ even after it became available again. This issue has been resolved.US307302
Previously, the collection of values returned by a sub policy was incorrectly mapped to the columns of the collection output of the corresponding Sub Policy node in the calling policy. This issue has been resolved.DE102425
Previously, if you mapped the collection output of a node to a Last node that was not its immediate successor node in the policy model, and then mapped the output of the Last node to an Is Null node, the input mappings of the Is Null node were not retained. This issue occurred when you saved and then reloaded the policy. This issue has been resolved.DE101761
Previously, if the user account impersonated by the Policy Execution Service was locked out of a data source, and the Policy Execution Service received an execution request from the same data source, the service kept attempting to log in to the data source using the impersonated user account and did not process the requests from the other data sources. This issue has been resolved. Now, if the Policy Execution Service fails to log in to a data source using the impersonated user account, the service attempts to log in to the data source at the intervals configured in the Meridium.Policies.ExecutionService.exe.config file, and processes the execution requests from the other data sources between the successive login attempts.DE101149
Previously, if you configured a Case node or Is Null node to pass a time stamp value to an Add Value to Health Indicator node, the validation and execution of the Add Value to Health Indicator node failed, and an error message appeared in the Execution Details window indicating that the date is not in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This issue has been resolved.DE98447
Previously, if you validated or executed a policy that contained a Math node with an invalid mathematical expression, an incorrect error message appeared, indicating an R Server connection issue. This issue has been resolved.DE98244
Previously, if you executed a policy that contained an Edit Entity node from another GE Digital APM module, an incorrect value was updated in the record mapped to the node. This issue occurred if your user account was configured with Metric Unit of Measure (UOM) preferences, and the base UOM configured for the field updated by the policy was not a Metric unit. This issue has been resolved.DE98240
Previously, duplicate policies for the same family and trigger could exist in the GE Digital APM database. In this scenario, you could not delete the duplicated policy. This issue has been resolved.DE95827
Previously, when you executed a policy that contained a Create Relationship node and a Create Entity node configured to create multiple records, the subsequent relationships were not created after the creation of the relationship between the first combination of records. This issue occurred if you specified one of the following inputs for the Create Relationship node:
  • Duplicate predecessor entity keys and the output of the Create Entity node as the successor entity key.
  • The collection output of a Create Entity node as the predecessor or successor entity key.
This issue has been resolved.
  • DE94996
  • DE94795
Previously, if a policy contained a Math node with a variadic function, and the variables of the variadic function represented the columns of a collection, the validation and execution of the policy failed. This issue has been resolved.DE94085
Previously, when you attempted to access a policy containing a large number of nodes, one of the following issues occurred:
  • The policy took a long time to load.
  • The policy did not load.
This issue has been resolved.
DE93538
Previously, when you attempted to access an imported policy that contained a Create Entity node for a family that did not exist in the GE Digital APM database, the policy did not load. This issue has been resolved. Now, the policy loads regardless of the family is specified for the Create Entity node.DE92631
Previously, if you mapped the time stamp output of a node to an input field of a successor node, and then executed the policy, in the Execution Details window for the successor node, the time stamp appeared in the time zone specified for your GE Digital APM user account instead of the policy time zone. This issue has been resolved.DE91644
Previously, if you configured a policy with a Baseline Rule node for a family whose ID contained a space, the validation and execution of the policy failed. This issue has been resolved.DE91542
Previously, if you did not update the memory cache after creating or deleting a family policy, the following issues occurred:
  • The newly created policy was not executed for the associated trigger.
  • The deleted policy was executed for the associated trigger.
These issues have been resolved.
DE91303
Previously, if you executed a policy that was configured to perform an action on a recently added, modified, or deleted family or family field, the execution failed even though you could successfully validate the policy. This issue has been resolved.DE91301
Previously, in the Properties window, if you attempted to map a column of a query result to an input field, the drop-down list box to specify the column of the query result did not appear for the following nodes:
  • Create Relationship
  • Delete Entity
  • Delete Relationship
  • Edit Entity
  • R Script
This issue has been resolved.
DE90835
Previously, irrespective of the display language configured for your user account, the name of the Sub Policy node always appeared in US English. This issue has been resolved.DE89416
Previously, in the Properties window for the Create Relationship node, if you specified duplicate predecessor or successor entity keys to create multiple one-to-one relationships, and then validated or executed the policy, a validation error occurred for the node. This issue has been resolved.DE89330
Previously, when you attempted to access a policy, the policy did not load if it contained the following nodes:
  • A comparison node without an input value
  • Multiple Sub Policy nodes
This issue has been resolved.
DE88744
Previously, in the toolbar of the Design workspace, nodes configured to be available only for specific licenses were available even if you did not have the corresponding licenses. This issue has been resolved.DE87323
Table 35. Obsolete Features

As of this release, the following items are no longer available.

DescriptionTracking ID
In the Properties window for the Create Alert node, the Recurring option has been removed from the Field drop-down list box.DE91756

Foundation

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 36. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
GE Digital APM has been tested with Google Chrome versions 72 and 73.US336340
Table 37. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in the Role Data Loader Workbook, in the RoleGroup worksheet, the color coding incorrectly indicated that entering values in the RoleId and GroupId fields was optional. Now, the color coding correctly indicates that entering values in these fields is required.DE83053

GE Analytics

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 38. Enhancements and New FeaturesThe following enhancements and new features have been added.
DescriptionID
GE Analytics now supports Enterprise Impact 18.2 Hotfix 1.US328964
GE Analytics now supports loading up to 62,000 tags and alerts from SmartSignal.US307305
Table 39. Resolved IssuesThe following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.
DescriptionID
Previously, the GE Analytics connector would intermittently update GE Enterprise TotalNodeHash without updating the actual nodes, which caused incorrect synchronization of the nodes in GE Digital APM. Now, TotalNodeHash is updated only if the corresponding nodes have been updated.DE101495
Previously, tags deleted in GE System 1 were not deleted in GE Digital APM. Now, tags are deleted correctly.DE93523
Previously, the synchronization process for newly added tags was not working without restarting both the Meridium GE Service and the AMQP Service. Now, the synchronization process initiates automatically.DE88701

General Dashboards

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 40. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
You can now export the contents of a dashboard to a PDF. When viewing a dashboard, you can now select the More Options button (), and then select Export to PDF.US290439

Generation Availability Analysis (GAA)

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 41. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
You can no longer create a log entry from an Event if you are not signed in to the Shift for which you want to create a log entry.US316276

Graphs

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 42. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
You can now export a graph to a PDF file. To facilitate this enhancement, the Export to PDF button () has been added to the Graph Result workspace.US297381
You can now define where the legend for a graph should appear in the Graph Result workspace. To facilitate this enhancement, in the graph settings pane, the Show Legend check box is now the Legend drop-down list box, where you can select a location for the legend or hide the legend.US290781
For a numeric value in the tooltip of a graph, commas now appear as the thousands delimiter. To facilitate this enhancement, the format of the numeric value for a tooltip has been changed to match the format of the numeric value in the y-axis of the graph. US283101
Table 43. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, for a pie chart with more than two pie slices, if the State management enabled Family for captions or System code table for captions option was selected in the Dimension for Category window, when you removed a row in the Series section of the Settings pane and saved the graph, multiple slices were removed from the graph. This issue has been resolved.DE103948
Previously, for a pie chart with two pie slices, if the State management enabled Family for captions or System code table for captions option was selected in the Dimension for Category window, when you removed a row in the Series section of the Settings pane and saved the graph, an error message appeared. This issue has been resolved.DE103809
Previously, after a database upgrade, when you attempted to access a graph based on a query that contained a family whose state management was enabled for captions, a spinner appeared, and the graph did not load. This issue can be resolved.

For information on how to fix this issue, refer to KBA 6616.

DE101475
Previously, when you accessed a pie chart based on a query that contained family state IDs, the state IDs incorrectly appeared as graph labels. This issue has been resolved.DE100709
Previously, if you created a graph using a Crosstab query and mapped fields containing site data to the vertical axis, the graph legend and tooltips contained values from the first field in the list, regardless of the site to which you are assigned. This issue has been resolved.DE98265

Help System

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 44. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
To improve visibility of large tables and images, an expand display button () has been added to the help system. You can select this button to remove the navigation menus on the sides of the page so that the content takes up the full width of the page.N/A
To improve accessibility and navigability of reference documentation for URLs, all URLs topics have been combined into the following section in the documentation: Basics > URLs > Reference.
Note: You can still also access the URLs topic for a module in the documentation for that module.
N/A
Table 45. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, the Access a Family Rule Project topic in the help system contained references to baseline family rule projects, although baseline rules are no longer part of the projects in the GE Digital APM Rules Library. This issue has been resolved. Now, references to the baseline family rule have been removed.DE97347
Previously, when you accessed the help system via GE Digital APM using Internet Explorer, the help documentation appeared in an unexpected format and you were unable to return results via search. This issue has been resolved.DE96121

Import and Export

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 46. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, if a policy that was scheduled to be executed was imported, when you updated the policy, a job to execute the policy was created in addition to the existing job that was created while importing the policy. This issue has been resolved. DE98204
Previously, when you attempted to export a family that had a field with a list of valid values associated with an APM Query, and if the APM Query had a prompt configured for it, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.DE94684
Previously, if no rules were available in a rule library project, and you attempted to export the project, an error occurred and an incorrect message appeared in the error log. This issue has been resolved. Now, an appropriate error message appears in the error log, indicating that the rules are not available in the rule library project. DE89799

Inspection Management

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 47. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
You can now generate and download multiple Inspection Reports at a time. To facilitate this enhancement, the following changes have been made:
  • The Bulk Print Report option has been added to the Underlying Open Inspections section to print multiple inspection reports. This feature is also available in the Inspection section in the Asset Overview page.
  • The View Bulk Printing Status option has been added to the Inspection Management Overview page to view the status of the print job. On selecting this option, the Downloads page appears, displaying the status of all the print jobs.
US278869
Table 48. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, if you used State Management and downloaded an inspection in offline mode along with the Inspection History Report, the Inspection Recommendations did not appear in the Recommendation History section of the report. This issue has been resolved. To facilitate this fix, the MI_INSPHIST_RECINSP query has been modified to include the State column.US292248
Previously, when you modified the queries in the Underlying Inspection Tasks and Underlying Recommendations sections in the Inspection Management Overview page, the counts in the Inspection Management tabs did not appear. This issue has been resolved. Now, you can add or delete columns from the Inspection Overview queries, but you cannot change the IDs of the query parameters.DE105398
Previously, when you configured an Inspection record to use a master/detail datasheet, an error occurred when saving the Detail section of the datasheet. This issue has been resolved.DE104166
Previously, if the Asset Hierarchy was configured to use the Equipment Has Equipment relationship, the Asset Hierarchy navigation links could not differentiate between a parent Equipment and a child Equipment. This issue has been resolved. DE103536
Previously, when you added a Bundle Sub-Inspection, General Finding, or Pressure Test Sub-Inspection to a parent Inspection record, you were unable to navigate back to the parent record without saving the new related record. This issue has been resolved. Now, when you navigate back to the parent inspection without saving the related record, a message appears, asking you to confirm whether you want to save the unsaved changes. DE103287
When you used a Samsung Galaxy Tab Active 3 with Android version 5.1.1 to create an Inspection, the Inspection Tasks drop-down list box did not appear within the visible portion of the window. DE102573
Previously, when you created a non-recurring Inspection Task using the Inspection Management (IM) Assets or Inspection Management (IM) Functional Location data loader, an error message appeared in the log even though the Desired Interval cell was blank or contained the value 0. This issue has been resolved.DE95976
Previously, when you saved a record in the Inspection Confidence Evaluation section and then attempted to navigate to any other section (such as the Team Members or Inspection Data sections) quickly, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.
Note: This issue occurred only if network connectivity was poor when using GE Digital APM.
DE93365
Previously, when you accessed an Inspection record and then attempted to navigate to any other page within GE Digital APM quickly, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.
Note: This issue occurred only if network connectivity was poor when using GE Digital APM.
DE93361
Previously, when you attempted to print a General Inspection Report or NR13 General Inspection Report with blank values in the Commencement Date or Completion Date fields, the report did not print. This issue has been resolved.DE89775
Previously, when you attempted to select a value in the Type of Inspection drop-down list box that contained more than 50 characters, an error occurred, and the value was not selected. This issue has been resolved.DE82361
Previously, when you attempted to create an inspection for equipment, the Inspection Tasks that were associated with the functional location of the equipment did not appear in the Inspection Tasks drop-down list box of the Create Inspection window. This issue has been resolved.DE82621
Previously, when you created or updated an Inspection record using the Inspection Management (IM) Assets or Inspection Management (IM) Functional Location data loader without any value in the Final Inspection Lock column, the Inspection Lock check box was not selected even if you set the value as True in the data loader template. This issue has been resolved.DE81521

Installation

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 49. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
GE Digital APM now supports Windows Server 2016.US330336

Life Cycle Cost Analysis

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 50. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
To enhance accuracy in the Cost Data grid, when creating a new Resource for or adding an existing Resource to a Cost Element, the values in the Year <Number> columns (after the Year 0 column) now reflect estimations based on inflation. The escalated inflation values in the Year <Number> columns are based on the Annual Escalation Rate field in the Definitions section. US256920
To enhance usability, in the Summary section of the Analysis Summary workspace, the Total Cost chart has been added to the drop-down list box. The Total Cost chart displays a cumulative summary trend of the associated capital costs and operating costs for a scenario. US254827
Table 51. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous releases have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in the Scenario Definition section of the Analysis Summary page, if you assigned an asset group to either the Primary Element Name or Secondary Element Name fields of the datasheet and then saved the analysis, if you navigated to the LCC Overview page and attempted to use the Asset Hierarchy to filter to the asset group you selected in the Scenario Definition section, the new analysis did not appear in the LCC Analyses section. This issue has been resolved. DE93382
Previously, in the LCC Overview page, if you accessed an analysis by selecting an item from a chart in the LCC Overview page, the Analysis Summary page for that analysis appeared; however, one or more errors occurred. This issue has been resolved. DE93217
Previously, in an Operating Cost row of the Cost Data grid, if you added a new Resource, and if the value in the Cost Per Period column for that new Resource was greater than 1000, the value that appeared in the Cost Per Period column was 1000 times less than the entered value. This issue has been resolved. Now, when you enter a value in the Cost Per Period column for a new Resource in the Cost Data Grid, the value in the Cost Per Period column appears as expected. DE92991
Previously, if you selected to search for a specific LCC analysis, if you selected a result that was returned by the global search, the selected LCC analysis did not appear. This issue has been resolved. You can now use the button to search for and to navigate to a specific LCC analysis.DE88780
Previously, after upgrading Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCC) from a prior version of GE Digital APM, if you accessed the Cost Data Report from the Analysis Summary page, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved. US285838

Maximo UDLP V2.6.0

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 52. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
APM Connect now supports customized mappings for Maximo Notification Management.US258012

Metrics and Scorecards

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 53. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
To improve usability, GE Digital APM users can now map the event and asset criticality data available in their database to the standard event and asset criticality data defined for a work history cube using the corresponding families. To facilitate this enhancement, the following baseline families have been created in Family Management. You can run an update query for each of these families to modify and map the Event and Asset criticality data available in your database to the standard data available in GE Digital APM.
  • Event Type Dimension
  • Event Breakdown Dimension
  • Event Detection Method Dimension
  • Event Priority Dimension
  • Asset Criticality Dimension
US297906
Table 54. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, if your culture setting had a culture other than English and you accessed the following windows while creating a metric view or a Key Performance Indicator (KPI), the names of the windows were not translated to the appropriate language for your culture setting.
  • Add to Measures
  • Add to Rows
  • Add to Columns
  • Add to Slices
  • Select an APM Query from the catalog
This issue has been resolved.
DE93383

Policy Designer

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 55. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
You can now determine the quality of an OPC Tag reading accessed from the process historian. To facilitate this enhancement, the OPC Tag node has been modified to generate the DA Quality Is Good output value, which indicates the quality of readings.US329392
To improve the performance of the Predix Time Series node, the default number of readings that the Predix Time Series node retrieves from a Time Series data source has been reduced from 500000 to 10000.US327520
The following policies are now available as part of the baseline GE Digital APM:
  • DateAdd: To add a time interval value to a time stamp value. This policy is designed to be used as a sub policy, as an alternative for a date add function in a query or R script.
  • DateDiff: To calculate the difference between time stamp values in terms of the following units of time:
    • Years
    • Weeks
    • Days
    • Hours
    • Minutes
    This policy is designed to be used as a sub policy, as an alternative for a date difference function in a query or R script.
  • US314617
  • US314615
The Edit Entity node now updates records from a collection of values irrespective of the name of the collection column containing the entity keys. To facilitate this enhancement, the Entity Key Column drop-down list box has been added to the Properties window for the Edit Entity node where you can specify the collection column containing the entity keys.US314481
The minimum time interval that you can configure to run a job that deletes the execution history logs from the database is now increased to one hour.
Note: If you had specified the time interval value for the job in minutes, the specified value is rounded up to the nearest value in hours, and the updated value appears in the Execution History Settings workspace. However, the job will continue to run at the time intervals that you had specified until you save the modified settings for the job.
US311726
You can now view the execution result of a Sub Policy node in the execution summary of the policy. To facilitate this enhancement, the policy execution summary has been modified to display the number of times the Sub Policy node executed the associated sub policy.US306760
You can now access the execution details of a sub policy from the calling policy. To facilitate this enhancement, the View Execution Details link, which can be used to view the policy model and execution details of the sub policy in a separate window, has been added to the Node Execution Details window for the Sub Policy node.US306756
You can now configure a policy to apply an asset strategy template to an asset or asset strategy. To facilitate this enhancement, the Apply Strategy Template node has been added to the Actions section of the toolbar in the Design workspace.US298658
You can now convert the output value of a node to another data type. To facilitate this enhancement, the Convert Type node has been added to the Calculations section of the toolbar in the Design workspace.US297271
The R Scripts module now supports Machine Learning Server 9.2.1 in addition to R Server 8.0.0. To facilitate this enhancement, in the Connections page, the R Server Version drop-down list box has been added to enable you to select the version of your R Server.US283973
When you deploy Policy Designer for the first time or upgrade to version 4.3.0.7.0, you must configure the Meridium Notification Service to enable the Policy Execution Service. DE103226
Table 56. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, if multiple entities were associated with an entity ID that you specified in the Policy Instance Data Loader, no records associated with the entity ID were mapped to the instance. Now, in this scenario, if one of the records associated with the entity ID is linked to the primary record of the instance, the record that is linked to the primary record is mapped to the instance.US311492
Previously, if Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) stopped responding or could not be accessed, the Policy Trigger Service and Policy Execution Service failed to automatically reconnect with MSMQ even after it became available again. This issue has been resolved.US307302
Previously, the collection of values returned by a sub policy was incorrectly mapped to the columns of the collection output of the corresponding Sub Policy node in the calling policy. This issue has been resolved.DE102425
Previously, if you frequently switched between pages, workspaces, windows, or sections while using Policy Designer for a long period of time, the following issues occurred:
  • The Design workspace took a long time to load.
  • Operations in the Design workspace, such as moving a node, took a long time.
  • The internet browser intermittently stopped responding.
These issues have been resolved.
DE102142
Previously, if you mapped the collection output of a node to a Last node that was not its immediate successor node in the policy model, and then mapped the output of the Last node to an Is Null node, the input mappings of the Is Null node were not retained. This issue occurred when you saved and then reloaded the policy. This issue has been resolved.DE101761
Previously, if the user account impersonated by the Policy Execution Service was locked out of a data source, and the Policy Execution Service received an execution request from the same data source, the service kept attempting to log in to the data source using the impersonated user account and did not process the requests from the other data sources. This issue has been resolved. Now, if the Policy Execution Service fails to log in to a data source using the impersonated user account, the service attempts to log in to the data source at the intervals configured in the Meridium.Policies.ExecutionService.exe.config file, and processes the execution requests from the other data sources between the successive login attempts.DE101149
Previously, after successfully processing data, the data loader log displayed a record count of 0. Now, the data loader log displays the correct record count.DE100703
Previously, if you deleted the Input node that represented the primary record for an instance and saved the policy, when you specified the primary record for any instance using the Policy Instance Data Loader, the primary record was not mapped to the instance. This issue has been resolved.DE99335
Previously, if you configured a Case node or Is Null node to pass a time stamp value to an Add Value to Health Indicator node, the validation and execution of the Add Value to Health Indicator node failed, and an error message appeared in the Execution Details window indicating that the date is not in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This issue has been resolved.DE98447
Previously, if you validated or executed a policy that contained a Math node with an invalid mathematical expression, an incorrect error message appeared, indicating an R Server connection issue. This issue has been resolved.DE98244
Previously, if you executed a policy that contained an Edit Entity node from another GE Digital APM module, an incorrect value was updated in the record mapped to the node. This issue occurred if your user account was configured with Metric Unit of Measure (UOM) preferences, and the base UOM configured for the field updated by the policy was not a Metric unit. This issue has been resolved.DE98240
Previously, when you imported instances for multiple policies using the same Policy Instance Data Loader workbook, the following issues occurred:
  • The data loader was successfully imported without any error message.
  • The imported instances were incorrectly associated with the policies.
These issues have been resolved. Now, in this scenario, the data loader is not imported and an error message appears in the data loader log, indicating that the instances could not be imported.
DE98002
Previously, if the deletion of an instance failed for any reason, the following issues occurred:
  • The instance was removed from the Instances section of the Design workspace. However, when you reloaded the policy, the instance reappeared in the Instances section.
  • No error message appeared.
These issues have been resolved. Now, when you attempt to delete an instance, the following events occur:
  • If the deletion takes a long time, a spinner appears, indicating that the deletion is in progress.
  • If the instance is successfully deleted, confirmation message appears.
  • If the deletion fails, an appropriate error message appears.
DE96251
Previously, when you accessed the Policy Designer Overview page, the page did not load or took a long time to load. This issue occurred when the GE Digital APM database contained a large number of execution history records. This issue has been resolved.
Note: If the issue persists, configure the Policy Designer Overview page to use the alternative query (Policy Overview – Policies Alternate Query) that has been added to the GE Digital APM Catalog. For more information on configuring the alternative query, contact Global Support Services.
DE95004
Previously, when you executed a policy that contained a Create Relationship node and a Create Entity node configured to create multiple records, the subsequent relationships were not created after the creation of the relationship between the first combination of records. This issue occurred if you specified one of the following inputs for the Create Relationship node:
  • Duplicate predecessor entity keys and the output of the Create Entity node as the successor entity key.
  • The collection output of a Create Entity node as the predecessor or successor entity key.
This issue has been resolved.
  • DE94996
  • DE94795
Previously, if a policy contained a Math node with a variadic function, and the variables of the variadic function represented the columns of a collection, the validation and execution of the policy failed. This issue has been resolved.DE94085
Previously, when you attempted to access a policy containing a large number of nodes, one of the following issues occurred:
  • The policy took a long time to load.
  • The policy did not load.
This issue has been resolved.
DE93538
Previously, when you attempted to import policy instance data using the Policy Instance Data Loader, the data was not imported and an error message appeared in the data loader log, indicating that the Instance ID value exceeded the maximum character limit. This issue occurred if you assigned the first field sequence number for the Policy Instance family to a field with a maximum character limit less than the number of characters in the Instance ID specified in the data loader. This issue has been resolved. Now, in this scenario, the data is successfully imported.DE93209
Previously, when you attempted to access an imported policy that contained a Create Entity node for a family that did not exist in the GE Digital APM database, the policy did not load. This issue has been resolved. Now, the policy loads regardless of the family is specified for the Create Entity node.DE92631
Previously, if you mapped the time stamp output of a node to an input field of a successor node, and then executed the policy, in the Execution Details window for the successor node, the time stamp appeared in the time zone specified for your GE Digital APM user account instead of the policy time zone. This issue has been resolved.DE91644
Previously, if you executed a policy that was configured to perform an action on a recently added, modified, or deleted family or family field, the execution failed even though you could successfully validate the policy. This issue has been resolved.DE91301
Previously, if you mapped the output of an AMS Asset, GE Tag, Health Indicator, or OPC Tag node to a Comparison node, and then mapped the logical result of the Comparison node to an And or Or node, validation and execution of the policy failed. This issue has been resolved.DE90937
Previously, if a policy was executed by a family-level rule or another GE Digital APM module multiple times within a short duration, the execution results for the Math and Text nodes were intermittently incorrect after the first execution. This issue has been resolved.DE89726
Previously, irrespective of the display language configured for your user account, the text always appeared in US English for the following items:
  • Name of the Sub Policy node in policies.
  • Name of the policy instance data loader in the Import Data window of the Data Loaders page.
This issue has been resolved.
DE89416
Previously, in the Properties window for the Create Relationship node, if you specified duplicate predecessor or successor entity keys to create multiple one-to-one relationships, and then validated or executed the policy, a validation error occurred for the node. This issue has been resolved.DE89330
Previously, when you attempted to access a policy, the policy did not load if it contained the following nodes:
  • A comparison node without an input value
  • Multiple Sub Policy nodes
This issue has been resolved.
DE88744
Previously, in the toolbar of the Design workspace, nodes configured to be available only for specific licenses were available even if you did not have the corresponding licenses. This issue has been resolved.DE87323
Table 57. Obsolete Features

As of this release, the following items are no longer available.

DescriptionTracking ID
In the Properties window for the Create Alert node, the Recurring option has been removed from the Field drop-down list box.DE91756

Production Loss Analysis (PLA)

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 58. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in the Production Data workspace, when you modified the value in the Actual column, the value in the Unit Key field of the Production Data record changed to 0. This issue has been resolved.DE103340
Previously, after successfully processing data, the data loader log displayed a record count of 0. Now, the data loader log displays the correct record count.
Note:
  • For each Product specified in the ProductionProfile worksheet in the Production Loss Analysis (PLA) 1-Admin Data Loader workbook, a Product record is created or updated along with the Production Profile record. Therefore, the record count in the data loader log will always be higher than the record count in the workbook.
  • For each Production Plan specified in the ProductionPlan worksheet in the Production Loss Analysis (PLA) 3-Plan Data Loader workbook, Production Data records are created based on the values in the Data Entry Frequency, Start Date, and End Date cells, along with the Production Plan record. Therefore, the record count in the data loader log may be different from the record count in the workbook.
DE100708
Previously, when you attempted to create a Production Profile, an error message appeared, stating that records were not found. This issue has been resolved.DE92190
Previously, you could remove the mapping between an Event Code and a Production Unit if that Event Code was used in a Production Event. This issue has been resolved.DE88958

Process Data Integration (PDI)

Table 60. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when you used the Tags to Assets Relationship Data Loader to associate a single OPC tag with multiple assets, only the last asset was associated with the tag. Now, all assets are associated with the OPC tag.DE91962

Queries

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 61. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, if your culture setting was anything other than English and you ran a query with a field that was added twice with different aliases, if one of the fields was configured such that it did not appear in the query results, no values were displayed in the query results. This issue has been resolved. DE103503
Previously, when you used the ORDER BY clause to sort a column in a query that contained the UNION operator or a SELECT DISTINCT statement and ran the query, an incorrect column was sorted in the query results. This issue occurred when the ORDER BY clause referenced an expression column by its alias. This issue has been resolved.DE101497
Previously, when you ran a query that used the UNION operator as a formatted query, an error occurred, and the query did not return any results. This issue has been resolved.DE101292
Previously, when you ran a query that used the UNION operator to combine the result set of two SELECT statements containing a WHERE clause, if the WHERE clause did not contain an AND operator, an error occurred, and the query did not return any results. This issue has been resolved.DE100416
Previously, when you ran a formatted query with the limit results to top condition, the query did not return the expected results. This issue has been resolved.DE99794
Previously, in the Conditions section of the Design workspace, when you hovered over a Hyperlink, Criteria or Or cell, a tooltip did not appear. This issue has been resolved.DE94420
Previously, when you attempted to export a query result set to a dataset, only the first 100 records in the query result set were exported. This issue has been resolved. DE93641
Previously, when you ran a query that joined a family to multiple sub-families and the relationship family caption contained a hyphen, an error occurred, and the query did not return any results. This issue has been resolved.DE89510
Previously, when you accessed a Crosstab query in which a Total cell contained an aggregate function, incorrect values appeared in the Field and Alias cells. This issue has been resolved. DE88704
Previously, when you exported the results of a formatted query that contained the ENTY_KEY and FMLY_KEY fields to a dataset, the ENTY_KEY and FMLY_KEY columns in the dataset were blank. This issue has been resolved.DE88523
Previously, when you ran a formatted query where the same family was selected as the source and the related source, and the same field was selected from both sources, the related source field incorrectly displayed the source field value in the query results. This issue has been resolved.DE88332
Previously, when you ran a formatted query to create left joins on two subqueries that pull data from the same family, the query did not return the expected results. This issue has been resolved.DE88141
Previously, after selecting the Limit Results to Top check box and entering a value, if you ran an unformatted query and exported the query results to a Microsoft Excel file, the exported data in the file was different from the actual query results. This issue has been resolved.DE79754

Record Manager

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 62. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when a conditional alert for a record was scheduled to be executed at specified intervals, the alert was incorrectly executed at a different time than the time specified in the Last Date Processed box of the record. This issue has been resolved.DE91635
Previously, if you had uploaded a reference document that had a file name with Chinese characters and then downloaded the same document using the Internet Explorer browser, the name of the downloaded document was incorrect. This issue has been resolved.DE90473
Previously, while creating or modifying a record, the drop-down list boxes available in the datasheet were not highlighted with red borders, although a value was required for each drop-down list box. This issue has been resolved.DE90469
Previously, if a query had a field displaying date and time, if you used the query as a data source for a record that belonged to the Conditional Alerts family and scheduled the conditional alert, the time for a specific date displayed in the query result did not match the corresponding time displayed in the email that was sent when the conditional alert was executed. This issue has been resolved. DE87509
Previously, when you attempted to upload a reference document that had a file name with Russian characters, an error message appeared, indicating that the file type was not supported. This issue has been resolved. Now, you can upload a reference document with a Russian file name. DE87014
Previously, in the Record Explorer page, when you attempted to access a record that had a large number (approximately 30000) of successor records that are associated with the same family, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.US316553

Reliability Analytics

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 63. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID

To enhance accuracy in System Reliability analyses, the Action Optimization section has been added to the Analysis Summary page. The Action Optimization section allows you to optimize a group of actions associated with an analysis to determine the optimum interval at which to perform inspection or preventative maintenance. After you have found the optimal interval for an action, you can apply it to that action. When you do so, the value in the Interval field in the System Action record will be overwritten with the value that exists in the Optimal Interval field. After you apply the optimal interval, you can then run the simulation for the System Reliability Analysis to update the result based upon the optimized interval.

To facilitate this enhancement, a new family, System Action Optimization, has been added to System Reliability.

F39608
To enhance usability, the System Reliability Data Loader has been added to Reliability Analytics. Using the System Reliability Data Loader, you can import the following types of primary and third-party data from a fixed-format Excel workbook into the System Reliability Data Model:
  • System Action records
  • System Analysis records
  • System Asset records
  • System Risk Assessment records
  • System Risk records
  • System Scenario records
  • System Subsystem records
US317337
In the Simulation Results workspace of the Analysis Summary page, you can now view charts in full-screen mode by selecting the Expand button (). US312695
To enhance usability in Reliability Analytics, if you navigate away from an open page without saving your changes, the Unsaved Changes window now appears, prompting you to save. US307526
To enhance analysis accuracy, when viewing the details of a Scenario in System Reliability, the following Distribution Types can now be selected for TTF and TTR Distributions in the Risks section and the Show Risk/Mitigated Actions grid:
  • Generalized Extreme Value Distribution
  • Gumbel Distribution
  • Triangular Distribution
US271178
To enhance analysis accuracy, when viewing the details of a Spare Application in a Spares Analysis, the following Distribution Types can now be selected in the Update Distribution section:
  • Generalized Extreme Value Distribution
  • Gumbel Distribution
  • Triangular Distribution
US271175
Table 64. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous releases have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in the Simulation Results workspace, if there were invalid values in the Simulation, a warning message appeared that overlapped the column headings in the Simulation Results workspace. This issue has been resolved. Now, if there are invalid values in the Simulation, the warning message that appears does not overlap the column headings. DE104107
Previously, when using Internet Explorer, if you exported Simulation Results to a PDF, the resulting PDF did not contain any content. This issue has been resolved. DE104091
Previously, in the RA Overview page, if you selected the Spares Analysis tab before the RA Overview page finished loading, no analyses appeared in the Spares Analysis section. This issue has been resolved. DE101856
Previously, in the Definition section of a Spare Application, if you added an Application and with blank value in the Application Name box and then saved the Application, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved. Now, you cannot save an Application without entering a value in the Application Name box. DE101854
Previously, in the Diagram section of the workspace for a Scenario in a System Reliability Analysis, if you selected an asset and then navigated to the Actions section, your selection was not retained and Actions that were not associated with the selected asset appeared in the Actions section. This issue has been resolved. Now, if you select an asset in the Diagram section and navigate to the Actions section, only the Actions associated with the selected asset appear. DE100207
Previously, when creating a new Risk record in System Reliability, if you saved the new Risk record multiple times, a Risk record was created each time that you selected the Save button (). This issue has been resolved.DE98759
Previously, in the Risks section of a System Reliability scenario, if you selected the link in a cell in either the Planned Resource Usages or the Unplanned Resource Usages column, the grid that appeared after selecting that link did not display the Fixed Cost and the Variable Cost fields, and you could not modify those fields in the datasheet. This issue has been resolved. DE97078
Previously, in the Resources section of a System Reliability Analysis, if the value in either the Fixed Cost or the Variable Cost cell was greater than 1000, the value that actually appeared in that cell was improperly truncated. This issue has been resolved. DE97077
Previously, in the Assets section of the Reliability Distribution Data Editor window of a new Reliability Distribution analysis:
  • The Asset ID and the Installation Date columns did not appear.
  • If you selected the Add button (), you could not add an asset to the Reliability Distribution.
These issues have been resolved.
DE97069
Previously, in the Number of Iterations field in the Definition section of the Analysis Summary page, you could enter a value less than 400 and save the record. If you entered a value in the Number of Iterations field that was less than 400, if you then accessed the Risks workspace of a Scenario, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved. Now, in the Definition section of the Analysis Summary page, you cannot enter a value less than 400 in the Number of Iterations field. DE96567
Previously, in the Reliability Analytics page, if you selected the Spares Analyses tab before the Reliability Analytics page finished loading, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved. DE94260
Previously, when viewing the Reliability Distribution Analysis Report for an analysis for which a PM Optimization had been performed, the values entered for the Planned Cost and Unplanned Cost did not appear in the report. This issue has been resolved. DE93870
Previously, in a Google Chrome browser, when creating a new Reliability Distribution in the Reliability Distribution Builder window by manually entering data, an error sometimes occurred, and the Asset ID field could not be modified. This issue has been resolved. DE93728
Previously, when viewing plots in Analysis Summary page, if the value for the datapoint on the plot was less than one (for example, 0.01), the value plotted for the datapoint was incorrectly rounded to zero. This issue has been resolved. Now, datapoints with values less than one plotted in the Analysis Summary page appear as expected.
  • DE92444
  • DE92443
Previously, when creating a new Risk record in System Reliability, if you saved the new Risk record multiple times, a Risk record was created each time that you selected the Save button (). This issue has been resolved.DE92376
Previously, in the RA Overview page, after creating a new System Reliability analysis, no message appeared indicating whether or not your new analysis was created successfully. This issue has been resolved. DE88121

Reliability Centered Maintenance

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 65. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
To enhance usability, in the Analysis Details pane, the following lists are now sorted alphabetically:
  • Assets
  • Failure Effects
  • Failure Modes
US302942
To enhance usability, in the Analysis Details page, the number of associated records now appears as a count in the following sections:
  • Linked Assets
  • Reference Documents
  • Reports
  • Team Members
US301505
To avoid timeout issues, in the Analysis Details workspace, Asset Strategy Management promotion is now a background operation.US291070
To maintain consistency, in the Recommendations pane, State Management is now controlled by the same functionality as other GE Digital APM modules.US283474
To enhance usability, in the Analysis Details page, in the Decision Logic section of the Failure Effect workspace, the decision logic workflow has been condensed and simplified.US274365
To enhance usability and to allow you to incorporate related Failure Mode Asset ID values that make family records unique, you can now include the related Asset ID value of the Failure Mode family in the following worksheets of the Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Data Loader:
  • Failure Effects Worksheet
  • Failure Modes Worksheet
  • Recommendations Worksheet
DE94412
Table 66. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, if your culture setting was anything other than English, and you accessed the following sections of the Reliability Centered Maintenance page, some of the column names were not translated to the language based on your culture setting.
  • Analyses
  • Risks
  • Recommended Actions
This issue has been resolved.
  • DE101699
  • DE97040
To avoid timeout issues, in the Analysis Details workspace, Asset Strategy Management promotion is now a background operation.DE97426
Previously, in the Import Data section, when you attempted to execute the Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Data Loader, an error sometimes appeared in the log. This issue has been resolved.DE95839

Report Configuration

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 67. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
You can now print and export SSRS reports in bulk, and you can configure the following:
  • The path, constructed according to Universal Naming Convention (UNC) standards, where you want to store the printed reports.
  • The credentials that are required to access the machine in which the printed reports are stored.
  • The number of days after which the .zip file for the printed reports will be automatically deleted from the location where it is stored.
US305882

Risk Based Inspection

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

RBI 580 and RBI 581

Table 68. Enhancements and New Features
NoteTracking ID(s)
To enhance usability, the datasheet content for the following families has been reorganized:
  • RBI 580 and RBI 581 Consequence Evaluation
  • RBI 580 and RBI 581 Degradation Mechanism Evaluation
  • RBI 580 and RBI 581 Risk Analysis
  • RBI Component Cylindrical Shell
  • RBI Component Exchanger Bundle
  • RBI Component Exchanger Header
  • RBI Component Exchanger Tube
  • RBI Component Piping
  • RBI Component PRD Relief Valve
  • RBI Component PRD Rupture Disk
  • RBI Component Pump Compressor Casing
  • RBI Component Tank Bottom
  • RBI Degradation Mechanism
  • US326323
  • US313293
  • US313292
  • US312832
  • US312671
  • US312669
  • US312668
  • US310210
  • US310209
  • US310208
  • US310206
  • US307738
  • US303329
  • US302445
  • US229757
When viewing an analysis in the RBI module, you can now make changes to the analysis only if it is in the Created state. When you change the state of the analysis to any other state, the analysis and related records cannot be modified, and the Save button () is not available.
Note:

The following fields in the Degradation Mechanism family are no longer editable:

  • Mitigated Risk
  • Mitigated Financial Risk
US304996
You can now use a utility to generate Risk Assessment records for active RBI Criticality Analyses and RBI 581 Risk Analyses that do not have Risk Assessment records. Also, for the active RBI Criticality Analyses, the utility will calculate and set Half-Life for any related Ext. Corr. Deg. Mech Evaluations where the value is blank.

After the utility is executed, the RBI 580 and RBI 581 analyses can be promoted to ASM, and RBI Recommendations can be generated for the active RBI 580 analyses with Ext. Corr. Deg. Mech Evaluations.

US272821
To reflect the changes in Addendum-1 of API-581 3rd Edition, the Component Damage and Personal Injury Area calculations for Type-1 flammable fluids have been modified as follows:
  • The Consequence Area is determined based on the combination of Release Type and if the Operating Temperature is greater than the Auto Ignition Temperature.
  • The Blending and the Autoignition Temperature factors are not considered in the calculations for Type-1 flammable fluids.
US322083
You can now promote an Asset to Asset Strategy Management if all the RBI Components within the Asset contain an RBI Analysis in any of the following states:
  • Pending Approval
  • Approved
  • Implemented
US272476
You can now show or hide the analyses that are in the Archived state in the Component Overview page. To facilitate this enhancement, a new option, Hide Archived Analyses has been added to the Component Overview page.F38674
Table 69. Resolved Issues
NoteTracking ID(s)
Previously, when you were using a Risk Matrix other than Default or Standard Practice Risk Matrix, the categories defined in the MI_RISK_CATEGORY System Code Table had to be capitalized to correctly map RBI risk values. This issue has been resolved. Now, the values do not have to be capitalized.DE103968
Previously, if the Asset Hierarchy was configured to use the Equipment Has Equipment relationship, the Asset Hierarchy navigation links could not differentiate between a parent Equipment and a child Equipment. This issue has been resolved. DE103536
Previously, in an RBI Consequence Evaluation, in the Design Details section, the Consequence field was not translated. This issue has been resolved. Now, the Consequence field is populated by the MI_CONSEQUENCE_TYPES System Code Table, which is translated to the appropriate culture setting.DE94112
Previously, when you attempted to select an RBI Component from the Asset Details page, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.DE90981
Previously, in an RBI Component or RBI Analysis, in the Design Details section, the Stress Lookup Table field was not translated. This issue has been resolved. Now, the Stress Lookup Table field is populated by the MI_STRESS_LOOKUP_TABLE System Code Table, which is translated to the appropriate culture setting.DE90270
Previously, in an Oracle database, when you calculated multiple assets in bulk that had more than 500 collective analyses, a timeout error occurred. This issue has been resolved. DE88531
Previously, the allowable stress and flow stress values for a Pressure Vessel component were populated incorrectly if you used the following combination of values:
  • Stress Lookup Table: Pressure Vessels
  • Base Material Construction Code: ASME VIII DIV 1
  • Base Material Code Year: 2010
  • Base Material Spec: SA-387
  • Base Material Grade: Class 1 or Class 2 (for example, 11-CL2)

This issue has been resolved.

DE87370
Previously, if a component had an analysis in the Approved state and, in the same component, you changed the status of another analysis to make it active, the previously active analysis was not moved to the Archived state automatically. This issue has been resolved.DE92905
Previously, if your culture setting had a culture other than English, and you accessed the Risk Based Inspection Overview page, the following elements were not translated to the language based on your culture setting:
  • Names of the widgets
  • Column names in the widgets
This issue has been resolved.
US310483

Risk Based Inspection (RBI) 580

Table 70. Enhancements and New Features
NoteTracking ID(s)
You can now configure the calculation of RBI Criticality Analysis as per your requirement without modifying the baseline rules. You can configure the calculation in one or more of the following steps:
  • During analysis validation.
  • During validation and calculation of consequence evaluation (CE).
  • During validation and calculation of degradation mechanism evaluation (DME).
  • During roll-up of CoF values to Degradation Mechanism (DM) records.
  • During roll-up of PoF values to Analysis.
To facilitate this enhancement, following changes have been made:
  • The RBI 580 Flexible Calculation Preferences workspace has been added in RBI Application Settings to configure the flexible calculation, validation, and output preferences.
  • The RBI Overview Preferences workspace has been added in RBI Application Settings to configure the RBI Component Overview, Corrosion Loop Overview, Asset Overview, and Process Unit Overview pages.
  • The RBI Overview What-If Display Preference option has been added to RBI Overview Preferences workspace to enable the display of most recent What-If analysis risk on each component in the Asset and Corrosion Loop overview tables.
  • The None option has been added to the RBI Overview Graph Preference drop-down list box to disable the display of any type of graphs.
  • The following families have been renamed:
    Old NameNew Name
    RBI Custom DM Evaluation ConfigurationRBI Flexible Calculation Configuration
    RBI Custom DM Evaluation Configuration DetailsRBI Flexible Calculation Configuration Details
    RBI Custom DM Validation ConfigurationRBI Flexible Calculation Validation
    RBI Custom DM Validation Configuration DetailsRBI Flexible Calculation Validation Details
  • Two new fields, Action and Policy Link, have been added to the following families:
    • RBI Flexible Calculation Configuration
    • RBI Flexible Calculation Validation
  • The Degradation Mechanism Evaluation Methodology field has been renamed Action Family in the following families:
    • RBI Flexible Calculation Configuration
    • RBI Flexible Calculation Validation
  • The following fields have been added to the RBI Consequence Evaluation family:
    • Flexible Calculation Used
    • Flexible Calculation Policies Used
  • The following queries have been modified to add the Action field and remove the Analysis Family field:
    • RBI Flexible Configurations
    • RBI Flexible Validation Records
  • The following System Code Tables have been added:
    • MI_CONF_CALC_ACTIONS: Lists the flexible calculation actions.
    • MI_CONF_VAL_ACTIONS: Lists the flexible validation actions.
F38674
Table 71. Resolved Issues
NoteTracking ID(s)

Previously, when you calculated an RBI Criticality Analysis for a Heat Exchanger Bundle component, the following incorrect validations were performed:

  • The values in the Operating Pressure and Operating Temperature fields that were mapped from the shell side values on the RBI component were compared with the values in the Design Pressure and Design Temperature fields, respectively, which were mapped from the channel side values from the component.
  • The values in the Tube Operating Press Channel and Tube Operating Temp Channel fields were not compared with the design values.
These issues have been resolved. Now, the following validations are performed:
  • The values in the Operating Pressure and Operating Temperature fields that are mapped to the shell side values on the RBI Component are not compared with the design values.
  • The values in the Tube Operating Press Channel and Tube Operating Temp Channel fields are compared with the values in the Design Pressure and Design Temperature fields, respectively.
DE94278
Previously, in an RBI Consequence Evaluation, the Consequence field was not translated. This issue has been resolved. The Consequence field now displays the system code description of the MI_CONSEQUENCE_TYPES system code table and is translated to the appropriate culture setting.DE94112
Previously, in an RBI Component or RBI analysis, the Stress Lookup Table field was not translated. This issue has been resolved. Now, the Stress Lookup Table is populated with the MI_STRESS_LOOKUP_TABLE system code table description, which is translated to the appropriate culture setting.DE90270
Previously, the information on the valid values for the Selected Corrosion Rate field was incorrect in the Data Loaders section of the Risk Based Inspection (RBI) 580 user documentation. This issue has been resolved. DE98980

Risk Based Inspection (RBI) 581

Table 72. Enhancements and New Features
NoteTracking ID(s)
The following RBI 581 DM calculations are no longer dependent on the R Server:
  • 581-Amine Corrosion
  • 581-Acid Sour Water Corrosion
  • 581-Alkaline Sour Water Corrosion
  • 581-Atmospheric Tank Bottom Corrosion
  • 581-Austenitic Component Cracking Under Insulation
  • 581-Cooling Water Corrosion
  • 581-High Temperature H2/H2S Corrosion
  • 581-High Temperature Oxidation
  • 581-High Temperature Sulfidic and Naphthenic Acid Corrosion
  • 581-Hydrochloric Acid Corrosion
  • 581-Hydrofluoric Acid Corrosion
  • 581-Piping Mechanical Fatigue
  • 581-Soil Side Corrosion
  • 581-Sulfuric Acid Corrosion
The following policies have been modified, and R Server scripts have been removed:
  • RBI 581 Acid Sour Corrosion Rate
  • RBI 581 Alkaline Sour Water Corrosion Rate
  • RBI 581 AST Bottom Corrosion Rate
  • RBI 581 Calculate Susceptibility - Austenitic CUI
  • RBI 581 Cooling Water Corrosion Rate Estimation
  • RBI 581 Soil Side Corrosion Rate Calculation
  • US304830
  • US309020
Table 73. Resolved Issues
NoteTracking ID(s)
Previously, the fluid type of the following representative fluids was incorrectly marked as Reactive instead of Flammable:
  • DEE
  • EG

This issue has been resolved. Now, the fluid type of these fluids is marked as Flammable.

DE101410
Previously, in an RBI 581 Risk Analysis, if the time specified in the RBI Date field was later than the time specified in the Plan Date field, the Target Inspection Date field was updated incorrectly when you calculated the analysis. This issue has been resolved.
Note: This issue was applicable to both the main RBI 581 Risk Analysis and the What-if Analysis.
DE83090
Table 74. Obsolete Features
NoteTracking ID(s)
The following R Scripts have been removed from RBI 581 policies:
  • Determine Acid Sour Velocity Factor
  • Alkaline Sour Water Adjusted Corrosion Rate
  • Soil Side Corrosion Rate Calculations when Coating Present is NO
  • Soil Side Corrosion Rate Calculations
  • Determine Soil Multiply factor
  • Final Tank Bottom Corrosion Rate
  • Determine Final Corrosion Soil
  • Austenitic CUI Calculate Susceptibility
  • Calculate Cooling Water Corrosion Rate
  • Calculate Corrosion Rate Sea Water
  • Calculate RSI
  • Calculate Velocity Adj Factor
Also, the RBI 581 Calculate Environmental Severity HIC-H2S policy has been deactivated.
  • US304830
  • US309020

Risk Matrix

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 75. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, if the Not Applicable check box was selected for a Risk Matrix category, the overall risk would not update until the Risk Matrix was saved. This issue has been resolved.DE89701

Root Cause Analysis

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 76. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
To enhance usability, a new analysis type, the 5 Whys Analysis, has been added to Root Cause Analysis. Using this analysis, you can ask a series of questions to determine how an issue was reached and the root cause of that issue.

To facilitate this enhancement, five Why fields and five Reason fields have been added to the baseline RCA Event Records family and appear in the Event datasheet when viewing a 5 Whys Analysis.

F42438
To enhance usability, the Event Timeline has been added to the Analysis Summary page. Using this timeline, you can view Failure Events and plot them by their dates and times. F39698
To enhance usability, 5 Whys Analyses now appear in the Comprehensive Analysis Report.
  • US329110
  • US325806
The RCA Administrator page has been enhanced. A new workspace, Event Color Setting, has been added. In the Event Color Setting workspace, you can select and map specific colors to event types in the Event Timeline. US316991
The RCA Administrator page has been enhanced. A new workspace, RCA Pages Setting, has been added. In the RCA Pages Setting workspace, you can select the specific diagrams and process pages that you want to appear in the RCA module.US316744
In the Email Settings workspace of the RCA Administrator page, you can now define the source email address for a user to receive alerts for Preserve records. US315309
To enhance usability, in the RCA Analysis Summary page, in the Overview section, if you select the Recommendations chart, a list of recommendations for the selected analysis appears in the grid.US279567

To enhance security, to update, insert, or delete an RCA Recommendation record, you must now be a member of either the MI PROACT Administrator Security Group or a member of the MI PROACT Team Member Security Group for the selected analysis.

Note: All members of RCA Security Groups can view RCA Recommendation records.
US254542
Table 77. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous releases have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in the Track workspace, if you added a Tracking Item and then navigated to the Analysis Summary page, the Track Item chart was not updated with Tracking Item that you added. This issue has been resolved. DE103448
Previously, when viewing the Logic Tree diagram in the Comprehensive Analysis Report, the diagram appears in multiple pages. This issue has been resolved. Now, the Logic Tree diagram appears in a single page in the Comprehensive Analysis Report. DE103237
Previously, when viewing the Logic Tree Diagram, depending on the size of your screen, the Auto Arrange check box overlapped other elements in the Manage Diagram section. This issue has been resolved. To facilitate this fix, the Auto Arrange option has been moved to the More Options () menu.DE101794
Previously, after successfully processing data, the data loader log displayed a record count of 0. Now, the data loader log displays the correct record count.DE100707
Previously, in a Logic Tree Diagram, you could reposition the nodes even if the Auto Arrange check box was selected. This issue has been resolved. Now, if the Auto Arrange check box is selected, the nodes in the Logic Tree cannot be repositioned. DE100121
Previously, in the Analysis Summary page for an RCA Analysis that had more than two linked Recommendation records, if you selected the Recommendations chart, the grid that appeared below the chart only included two Recommendations records because the grid did not include a vertical scroll bar. This issue has been resolved. Now, a vertical scroll bar appears, and all linked Recommendation records appear in the grid. DE91498
Previously, in an RCA Logic Tree, if you enabled the Show Logic Gates option, an OR Logic Gate appeared below each node in the Logic Tree by default. This behavior occurred even if there was only one child node below the parent node. This issue has been resolved. Now, if you enable the Show Logic Gates option when there is only one child node below a parent node, the OR Logic Gate does not appear. DE90271
Previously, in an RCA Logic Tree, if the Show Logic Gates option was enabled, and if you added a single child Hypothesis node under either a parent Hypothesis node or a Failure Mode node, the Logic Gate incorrectly appeared between the single child and the parent nodes. This issue has been resolved. Now, if the Show Logic Gates option is enabled and you add a single child Hypothesis node under either a parent Hypothesis node or a Failure Mode node, the Logic Gate does not appear between the single child and the parent nodes. DE90090
Previously, when viewing reports in RCA, the Logic Tree Diagram contained in the report was often disjointed and spanned multiple pages. This issue has been resolved. Now, when viewing a Logic Tree Diagram within an RCA report, the Logic Tree Diagram appears on a single page. DE90089
Previously, if you exported a Logic Tree diagram, the exported diagram did not load properly, and you could not save the exported diagram. This issue has been resolved. DE89932
Previously, when viewing the Logic Tree workspace in a browser in full-screen mode, the text from the Auto Arrange check box overlapped the Properties button (). This issue has been resolved. DE89929
Previously, when viewing an RCA Analysis, if you selected the Event Diagram tab, the Decision node was not available in the Palette section, and no other nodes could be dragged from the Palette section. This issue has been resolved. Now, if you access the Event Diagram tab from an existing RCA Analysis, all nodes appear and can be dragged from the Palette section as expected. DE89734
Previously, in the Create Verification pane, if you selected a team member in the Assigned To drop-down list box, that team member did not receive email notifications when the assigned task was due or overdue because the scheduled email job was not properly executed. This issue has been resolved.US291622

Rounds Data Collection

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 78. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
The performance when uploading readings and marking Routes done has been improved.F38995
To improve usability, when you access the Rounds Data Collection Overview page, Routes are no longer automatically filtered based on settings in the Asset Hierarchy. Additionally, the Edit Filters button () has been removed from the Rounds Data Collection Overview page.US321122
To improve user experience, when you upload a large amount of data to the GE Digital APM database, the progress of the upload is displayed as a percentage.US320799
To ensure Route information is updated before you begin data collection for Routes that have been enabled for offline access, data is now synchronized with the GE Digital APM database both when you initially enable offline access and when you access the Rounds Data Collection Overview page.US315644
To improve usability, the page layout of the Rounds Data Collection module now switches between portrait and landscape modes when you rotate your device, regardless of the screen resolution of the device. This enables small screen devices, which use an adjusted page layout in portrait mode, to use the standard page layout in landscape mode.US291178
To improve usability in areas where network connectivity is intermittent, you can now force the Rounds Data Collection module to behave as if your device is offline by selecting the Disable Network Connection check box in the following locations:
  • The menu accessed by the settings button () in the large screen page layout
  • The Device Settings window in the small screen page layout
US290533
The next date for a Checkpoint is now updated when you mark the Route on which it appears done.US290514
To improve usability, in the page for a Route, in the Route Map pane, the Asset ID is now displayed across two lines of text to avoid truncation.US283079

To improve usability, you can now filter Lubrication Requirements on a Route by the specific Lubricant needed.

US278464
Table 79. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in the Rounds Data Collection Overview page, if you marked a Route done without first taking any readings, one of two issues occurred:
  • The Route was not removed from the Rounds Data Collection Overview page, the option to mark the Route done was disabled, and a Route History record was not created until you took readings for the Route and navigated away from the workspace.
  • The Route was removed only after an excessive length of time, and a Route History record was created, but comments were not populated.

These issues have been resolved.

DE100699
Previously, while using a handheld device to collect data for a route, the following issues occurred:
  • If you attempted to log in to GE Digital APM installed in the device for the first time, an error message appeared, indicating that you failed to log in to GE Digital APM. This issue occurred because the encrypted password did not match the password stored for the user in the device.
  • If you collected the route data, and then attempted to synchronize the device with GE Digital APM, the route data failed to synchronize with the corresponding route in GE Digital APM. This issue occurred because GE Digital APM was not able to authenticate the user credentials stored in the device as the encrypted password stored in the device did not match the password stored for the user in Active Directory.
These issues have been resolved. Now, in these scenarios:
  • You can successfully log in to the device as the device uses the same password encryption method as GE Digital APM.
  • You can successfully synchronize the route data stored in the device with the corresponding route in GE Digital APM as the encrypted password stored in the device matches the encrypted password stored in the GE Digital APM database instead of the password stored in Active Directory.
DE100680
Previously, if you cleared the reading for the first Checkpoint on a Route after having closed and reopened that Route, that Checkpoint was removed from the Route Map pane until you closed and opened the Route again. This issue has been resolved.DE99777
Previously, if you navigated away from and back to the workspace for a Route, and then closed the workspace for the Route after marking it done, the Route History record for the Route was deleted. This issue has been resolved.DE99181
Previously, if you deleted readings while completing a Route, some readings could be deleted unintentionally. This issue has been resolved.DE98984
Previously, while disconnected from a network, in the workspace for a Route for which offline access was enabled, if you marked the Route done after entering a comment, and then closed the workspace, you could still access the Route from the Rounds Data Collection Overview page, take readings for it, and mark it done. This issue has been resolved.DE97409
Previously, if you entered a reading value that satisfied a condition of a checkpoint other than the first condition, successor conditional checkpoints did not appear as expected. This issue has been resolved.DE96113
Previously, on small screen devices, there was no indicator that the device was disconnected from a network. This issue has been resolved. Now, an indicator is present when the device is disconnected from a network.DE95458
Previously, deleted Recommendations reappeared in the Recommendations pane in a Route if you created a new Recommendation without first refreshing or closing and reopening the Rounds Data Collection Overview page. If you then saved a deleted recommendation in the Recommendations pane, it also reappeared in the Recommendations section in the Rounds Data Collection Overview page. These issues have been resolved.DE94281
Previously, if creating an Operator Rounds Recommendation in offline mode failed, multiple Operator Rounds Recommendation In Error records were created after you synchronized the Route. This issue has been resolved. Now, only one Operator Rounds Recommendation In Error record is created.DE94304
Previously, if you marked a Route done in the Rounds Data Collection Overview page while the workspace for that Route was open, when you navigated back to the workspace for that Route, the Route reappeared in the Due Items or Overdue Items section in the Rounds Data Collection Overview page. This issue has been resolved.DE92165
Previously, while disconnected from a network, if you took readings on multiple devices for Routes with large numbers of readings, and then attempted to simultaneously upload the data to the GE Digital APM database on those devices after reconnecting to a network, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.DE91520
Previously, when you collected data offline for all checkpoints on a Route and then closed the Route without marking the Route done, the progress bar in the Rounds Data Collection Overview page erroneously displayed a value less than 100%. Additionally, if you then marked the Route done, the Route History section in the workspace for the Route in the Rounds Designer module displayed a value that was one fewer than the actual number of readings taken. This issue has been resolved. DE90935
Previously, in the Device Settings window, if you set the device settings by selecting the Use Default Settings check box, and then signed out of and back in to the GE Digital APM mobile application, the Use Default Settings check box did not remain selected, and the device settings were reverted to their previous state. This issue has been resolved. Additionally, in the Rounds Designer module, if an administrator sets the default device settings, the settings will take effect only after you have signed out of and back in to the GE Digital APM mobile application.DE89212
Previously, when you marked a Route done while offline and then went online, the Route disappeared from the device, as expected, and readings were uploaded to the server; however, if you went back offline before the sync interval was met, the device storage was not updated, and the Route appeared in the Due section despite not being due. This issue has been resolved. DE89050
Previously, if you changed the GE Digital APM password for a user, and that user then performed a sync operation on a Windows Mobile device, the user was unable to sign in to the GE Digital APM mobile application on a Windows Mobile device with the new GE Digital APM password. This issue has been resolved.DE88896
Previously, when you collected data for all Checkpoints on a Route and then closed the workspace for the Route without marking the Route done, the Route's progress bar in the Rounds Data Collection Overview page was not at 100%. Additionally, if you marked the Route done, the Route History section in the workspace for the Route in the Rounds Designer module was incorrect. This issue has been resolved.DE88747
Previously, on a small screen device, the percentage of the Route that was complete did not appear above the progress bar in the Rounds Data Collection Overview page when you were online. This issue has been resolved. DE88164
Previously, relevant geolocation data was not saved when you provided readings or recommendations, even if geolocation services were enabled. This issue has been resolved.DE87574
Previously, on a mobile device, after you cleared Route data from local storage, Routes stored on your device resynchronized with the server, but, once the data was cleared, there was no indication that Routes were still synchronizing. As a result, if you went offline while the Routes were still synchronizing, you were unable to access any Routes that were not finished synchronizing. This issue has been resolved. Now, while Routes are synchronizing with the server, a spinner appears next to the Route names in the Due Items or Overdue Items section of the Rounds Data Collection Overview page, indicating that synchronization is in progress.DE87172
Previously, a child conditional Checkpoint with a parent conditional Checkpoint appeared in the Route Map pane even if the necessary condition for the child conditional Checkpoint to appear was not satisfied. This issue has been resolved.DE86998
Previously, in the Rounds Data Collection Overview page, if you were disconnected from a network, Routes for which offline access was enabled did not appear when they became due. This issue has been resolved.DE86306
Previously, on small screen devices, in the Rounds Data Collection Overview page, in the Assigned Routes section, you could not view the full contents of the Route ID column. This issue has been resolved. Now, the Route ID column has been lengthened, and you can scroll horizontally to view its full contents.DE85257

Rounds Designer

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 80. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
To improve user experience, in the Rounds Designer Overview page, in the Allowable Values section, you can no longer delete allowable values.US325981
To improve user experience, when you upload a large amount of data to the GE Digital APM database, the progress of the upload is displayed as a percentage.US320799
To improve stability, the Rounds Designer module now detects and attempts to resolve issues related to mismatched Checkpoints on a Route, as well as provides details on such Checkpoints to enable further action as needed.US315644
To enable more efficient navigation of health indicator sources, the Status and Do not automatically create health indicator columns have been removed from the Health Indicator Source Management workspace in the AHM Admin page. These two columns have been replaced by one new column, Included, which displays a check mark when a health indicator source is used to create health indicators and which appears empty when a source is not used to create health indicators.
To facilitate this enhancement, a new field, Include as Health Indicator Source Field, has been added to the Health Indicator Mapping family. In addition, a new field, Include as Health Indicator Source, has replaced the Do Not Automatically Create Health Indicator field in the following families:
  • Checkpoint
  • Checkpoint Template
  • Measurement Location
  • Measurement Location Template
  • US305616
  • US305290
To improve the performance of uploading readings, the following fields have been removed from the ID Template in the Reading family:
  • Reading Value Character
  • Reading Value Numeric
US295428
Table 81. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in the workspace for a Route, if you repeatedly navigated between the Values and Route History sections, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.DE102022

Previously, if you added a Lubrication Requirement to a Route and then added a Checkpoint Template, the workspace for the Lubrication Requirement appeared, as opposed to the workspace for the Checkpoint Template. This issue has been resolved.

DE98780
Previously, when loading records using the Route data loader, if you did not provide a specific load sequence for the Route records, when you imported records containing multiple conditional Checkpoints, and then opened the Route containing those conditional Checkpoints, the conditional Checkpoints did not appear in the same order in which they appeared in the data loader. This issue has been resolved. Now, conditional Checkpoints for which a load sequence has not been provided appear in a Route in the same order in which they appear in the data loader, as expected.DE97625
Previously, in the Rounds Readings data loader workbook, if you entered a numeric value in the Reading Value Character column and then completed a data load, a null value was loaded to the Rounds Reading record. If you tried to correct this value by reloading the workbook with the numeric value in the correct column, the value was not updated. This issue has been resolved.DE94293
Previously, when you attempted to import a Checkpoint with a related asset whose assigned site was Global via a Rounds Data Loader, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.DE94130
Previously, if you deleted a checkpoint that contained a successor conditional checkpoint, and then attempted to add the successor conditional checkpoint to a Route by selecting the Add button (), the conditional checkpoint did not appear in the Existing ML / LR window. This issue has been resolved.DE93915
Previously, when you imported a Lubrication Requirement template, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.DE93007
Previously, in the workspace for a Route, if you selected a conditional Checkpoint in the pane and then attempted to add a new Checkpoint using a template, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved.DE91821
Previously, when you attempted to apply a Template Group to a Route, if the site assigned to the Template Group differed from the site assigned to a Template within the Template Group, the page did not load. This issue has been resolved. Now, you can add a Template to a Template Group only if one of the following statements is true:
  • The same site is assigned to both the Template and the Template Group.
  • The site assigned to the Template is Global.
For information on identifying already-created Template Groups that would cause the issue, refer to KBA 6583.
DE89348
Previously, if you added a Checkpoint to a Route and selected the associated Checkpoint node before saving the new Checkpoint, the page entered an indefinite loading state. This issue has been resolved.DE85706
Previously, in the Rounds Designer Overview page, in the Allowable Values section, if you modified the name of a category and selected Save, an error occurred. This issue has been resolved. Now, you can no longer modify the name or allowable values of a category.DE83485

R Scripts

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 82. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
The R Scripts module now supports Machine Learning Server 9.2.1 in addition to R Server 8.0.0. To facilitate this enhancement, in the Connections page, the R Server Version drop-down list box has been added to enable you to select the version of your R Server.US283973

SAP and SAP PI UDLP V2.6.0

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

SAP and SAP PI - V4.3.0.7.0

Table 84. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
The SAP Adapter now provides a Planned Work Adapter that enables you to plan maintenance work for assets.US318099
Table 85. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when using the Work Management adapter, after a confirmation record was created for an inspection, the Work Order Number field was not cleared from the Inspection record. Now, the Work Order Number field is cleared correctly.DE105082
Previously, the SAP PI adapter incorrectly populated the Last Date and Next Date fields when the adapter created a Work Order record. Now, the SAP PI adapter no longer populates these fields.DE102158
Previously, the documentation did not provide sufficient information about the ABAP package required to support migrating from V3.6 to V4.3 of GE Digital APM. Now the documentation correctly identifies the V3.6 ABAP package as 0.7, 360_600 Level 10.DE101136
Previously, Work History records associated with Technical Objects displayed incorrect Site data. Now, the Site data displays correctly.
  • DE100582
  • DE100583
When you attempted to save an updated Inspection record, the record failed to save and the following error message was displayed: Failed to save entity: "RFC_GET_STRUCTURE_DEFINITION"DE90036

Schedule Logs

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 86. Enhancements and New Features
DescriptionTracking ID
In the Description column of the Schedule Logs page, you can now view the ID of a scheduled Strategy Macro.US290782

Search

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 87. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
Now, when you perform a global search, the records belonging to the Equipment and Functional Location families appear at the top in the search results.US313364
Table 88. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, when you logged in to GE Digital APM as a Polish user and performed an advanced search on a family, the IDs that appeared in the Record ID column did not contain links. This issue has been resolved.DE85104

Security Manager

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 89. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
In the Roles page, the following Policy Security Groups have been added and assigned to the corresponding Foundation Security Roles. When the Policy Security Groups are associated with the corresponding Foundation Security Roles, the Security Users assigned to the Security Roles are granted all the privileges that have been granted to the Policy Security Groups.
Policy Security GroupFoundation Security Role
MI Policy AdministratorsMI Foundation Admin
MI Policy DesignerMI Foundation Power
MI Policy UserMI Foundation User
US313359
You can now configure a default site, default culture setting, and default UOM conversion set for Security Users. To facilitate this functionality, the following drop-down list boxes have been added in the User Defaults page:
  • Default Site
  • Default Culture
  • Default UOM Conversion Set
US284289
Table 90. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, while using GE Digital APM with an Oracle database, you could create multiple Security Users with the same User ID if the letter case of the User ID was unique for each Security User record. Now, irrespective of the letter case, you can associate a User ID with only one Security User.DE50675
Previously, in the Security Users page, when you searched for a user whose first name, last name, or user name included foreign language characters such as Russian, Chinese, or Spanish characters, the search results did not display any related information. This issue has been resolved.DE91164
Previously, during an LDAP synchronization, if the PwdLastSet field was not present in a user record in Microsoft Active Directory, the user record was not synchronized with its corresponding record in GE Digital APM. This issue has been resolved. Now, if the PwdLastSet field is not present in a user record in Microsoft Active Directory:
  • The number of days after which the system password expires for the user is automatically set to 9999 days.
  • The user record is synchronized with its corresponding record in GE Digital APM.
DE94809
Previously, in the Roles page, when you attempted to remove a Security User assigned to a Security Role, an incorrect message appeared. This issue has been resolved.DE98064

Single Sign-On

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 91. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, if SSO was configured for GE Digital APM, and you attempted to access a page using the corresponding GE Digital APM URL that is generated by the Hyperlink Utility tool, the GE Digital APM login page appeared instead of the SSO login page. This issue has been resolved. DE92791

SIS Management

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 92. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID

The SIS Management module now uses the latest database version of the Exida Safety Equipment Reliability Handbook (SERH): version 2017.4.01.

US299935
Table 93. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID

Previously, if you created a Protective Instrument Loop record, and immediately tried to modify the record, an error message appeared. This issue has been resolved.

DE89049

Previously, when you accessed GE Digital APM on a mobile device, and then attempted to download a Proof Test Task, a blank window appeared. This issue has been resolved. Now, in this scenario, the Assign Template for Download window appears, and the template for Offline Proof Test Task is downloaded successfully.

DE89021

State Management

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 94. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
In the State Assignments window, the following enhancements have been made:
  • In the Assignee column, the User ID for each Security User is displayed along with the first name and last name of the Security User.
  • You can now search for a Security User using the first name, last name, or User ID of the Security User to assign the user to a state.
US287182

System Requirements

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 95. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, while accessing the help content for the system requirements of SQL Server Analysis Services, the following issues were found in the Software Requirements section:
  • The software name was incorrect.
  • No information was available for the support of SQL Server Analysis Services 2016.
These issues have been resolved.
DE101559

Teams

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 96. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
While assigning teams to a shift or a route, you can now access the details of a team in the Teams page and perform various operations, such as creating, modifying, or deleting a team. To facilitate this enhancement, a hyperlink has been added to the following windows for each team:
  • Assign to Team Members
  • Add Teams to Shift
Note: This enhancement is applicable only to the Rounds and eLog modules.
US285276
Table 97. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in the eLog Administrator page, the following issues occurred:
  • You could not access the details of the teams that were assigned to a shift.
  • While assigning teams to a shift in the Add Teams to Shift window, you could not remove a team from the list of added teams.

These issues have been resolved.

DE92405

Thickness Monitoring

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 98. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
Thickness Monitoring now supports TML Groups with linked child TML Groups. You can configure this feature in the TM Family Preferences.US312372
The time required to load the Analysis Overview page for an asset has been reduced.US312357
The Thickness Monitoring (TM) Equipment and Thickness Monitoring (TM) Functional Location Data Loaders have been enhanced to skip any blank cells when you create or update records using the data loaders.US300470
To enhance the data loading process for large amounts of data and to prevent the failure of data load batches that take longer than five minutes, the Thickness Measurement (TM) Equipment data loader and the Thickness Measurement (TM) Functional Location data loader have been enhanced.

To facilitate this enhancement and to prevent timeouts, the TM Equipment Data Loader and the TM Functional Location Data loader now split large amounts of data into the following transaction scopes:

  • Asset Level Data
  • TML Groups in 100-count batches
  • Thickness Measurement Locations in 100-count batches
  • Measurements in 250-count batches

In addition to these default values, you can modify these transaction scopes if required.

US309806, DE98795
To prevent failure of TML batches that took longer than five minutes, the TML renewal functionality has been enhanced to perform the renewal job through a scheduler. Performing the job through a scheduler provides the following advantages:
  • You can renew a large number of TMLs without any timeout errors.
  • You can view the progress of the job in the Renew TMLs window.
  • You can close the Renew TMLs window without cancelling the job.
  • You can view the current and past job details from the scheduler.
US310307
To prevent failure of TML batches that took longer than five minutes, the TML nominal measurement creation functionality has been enhanced to perform the renewal job through a scheduler. Performing the job through a scheduler provides the following advantages:
  • You can create the nominal measurement for large number of TML records without any timeout error.
  • You can view the progress of the job in the Nominal Measurements window.
  • You can close the Nominal Measurements window without cancelling the job.
  • You can view the current and past job details from the scheduler.
US312370
Table 99. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, if the Asset Hierarchy was configured to use the Equipment Has Equipment relationship, the Asset Hierarchy navigation links could not differentiate between a parent Equipment and a child Equipment. This issue has been resolved. DE103536
Previously, when you attempted to send TML data to a DMS Go, DMS Go+, and DMS2 datalogger devices, the data was not sent to the device if the logged in user culture was set to any culture other than English (United States). This issue has been resolved.DE94734
Previously, in the Receive From section, if you received readings from the datalogger and then navigated away from the Receive From section, the readings were not retained. This issue has been resolved. DE94438
Previously, if the number format of the user account that is used to run the Meridium Device Service is different from the number format of the English (United States) culture, when you received thickness measurement data from a TM Datalogger, the measurement values were incorrect. This issue has been resolved.DE92138
Previously, the allowable stress value for a Pressure Vessel component was populated incorrectly if you used the following combination of values::
  • Stress Lookup Table: Pressure Vessels
  • Base Material Construction Code: ASME VIII DIV 1
  • Base Material Code Year: 2010
  • Base Material Spec: SA-387
  • Base Material Grade: Class 1 or Class 2 (for example, 11-CL2)

This issue has been resolved.

DE87370

Units of Measure and Conversions

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Table 100. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
A new destination Unit of Measure (UOM), Years (YR), has been added to the Months (MO) UOM to specify a conversion of time from months to years.DE84965

APM Classic Deferred Features

This topic provides a list of features that were available in APM Classic V3.X but that are not yet available in the current version.

Table 101. Asset Health Manager
NoteTracking ID(s)
Asset Hierarchy sorting and filtering based on health indicator status.TFS86430
Table 102. Calibration Management
NoteTracking ID(s)
Automated Calibration using Beamex and Meriam documenting process calibrators.
Note: Automated calibration using Beamex documenting process calibrators, Beamex MC5 and Beamex MC6, is supported using Beamex Business Bridge (B3) Version 1 (1.2.0) software for Beamex CMX Calibration software.
  • TFS61334
  • TFS61319
Table 103. Configuration Manager
NoteTracking ID(s)
Global number and date format.TFS160148
Global Preferences- Background Colors.TFS65297
Table 104. Generation Availability Analysis
NoteTracking ID(s)
The following fields and related functionality form the Performance record:
TabFields
Unit Identification
  • Capacity History Statistics Type
  • Zone
  • Refresh Incident Rollup
Unit Generation Performance
  • Demonstrated Max Capacity (G)
  • Demonstrated Max Capacity (N)
  • Override Reserve Shutdown Hours
  • Sum of fuel BTUs
  • Heat Rate
Unit Starting Characteristics
  • YTD attempted unit starts
  • YTD actual unit starts
  • YTD start reliability
Unit Primary Fuel Information
  • EIA Fuel Reporting
  • Primary Quantity Burned Unit of Measure
  • Primary Fuel BTUs - Contract
  • Primary Fuel BTUs - Electrical Generation
  • Primary Fuel BTUs - Plant Heating and Cooling
  • Primary Fuel BTUs - Process Steam
  • Primary Fuel BTUs - Total
Unit Secondary Fuel Information
  • EIA Fuel Reporting
  • Secondary Quantity Burned Unit of Measure
  • Secondary Fuel BTUs - Contract
  • Secondary Fuel BTUs - Electrical Generation
  • Secondary Fuel BTUs - Plant Heating and Cooling
  • Secondary Fuel BTUs - Process Steam
  • Secondary Fuel BTUs - Total
  • TFS234410
  • TFS234310
The following fields and related functionality from the GAA Plant and GAA Unit record:
DatasheetFields
GAA Plant
  • Date/Time Alternate Format
  • GADS Region
  • GADS Subregion
GAA Unit
  • Demonstrated Maximum Gross Capacity
  • Demonstrated Maximum Net Capacity
  • Summer Net Capacity
  • Winter Net Capacity
TFS229627
The following families in GAA:
  • Generation Forecast
  • Generation Fuel Annual Report
  • Generation Fuel Monthly Report
  • Generation Fuel Report
  • Generation Nameplate
  • Generation Nameplate Combined Cycle
  • Generation Nameplate Diesel
  • Generation Nameplate Fluidized Bed
  • Generation Nameplate Fossil Steam
  • Generation Nameplate Gas Turbine
  • Generation Nameplate Hydro
  • Generation Nameplate Miscellaneous
  • Generation Nameplate Nuclear
  • Generation Role
  • Generation Role Assignment
  • Generation Role Definition
  • Generation Role Field Configuration
  • Generation Unit Loading Profile
  • Generation Unit Starting Profile
  • TFS184663
  • TFS184661
  • TFS184660
  • TFS184659
  • TFS184657
  • TFS184656
  • TFS184655
  • TFS184653
  • TFS184652
  • TFS184646
The following Security Groups in GAA:
  • MI Generation Management Forecast
  • MI Generation Management Nameplate
  • MI Generation Management Security
  • TFS184663
  • TFS184661
  • TFS184660
  • TFS184659
  • TFS184657
  • TFS184656
  • TFS184653
  • TFS184652
  • TFS184646
Table 105. GE Analytics
NoteTracking ID(s)
KPIs for GE Analytics.TFS162791
Table 106. Graphs
NoteTracking ID(s)
Exporting to a PDF and printing graphs.TFS81015
Table 107. Metrics and Scorecards
NoteTracking ID(s)
Export/Import of KPI SchedulesTFS173886
GM (Generation Management) cube is deferred from V4.0.0.0. Any previously deployed GM (Generation Management) cube, which worked in V3.6 and earlier releases, will continue to work in V4.0.0.0 after upgrading the product. You will be able to use the existing GM cube and the support will continue. TFS160446
Selecting columns to include in a Scorecard.TFS70641
Table 108. Reliability Analytics
NoteTracking ID(s)
Action optimization in System Reliability Analysis.N/A
Table 109. Risk Based Inspection
NoteTracking ID(s)
Creating a bulk What-If analysis.TFS73475
Table 110. Rounds
NoteTracking ID(s)
Selecting multiple nodes in the left pane in Route Management.TFS173671
Ad hoc inspection of a single asset.TFS160740
Offline access to the five most recent Recommendations in Rounds.TFS153853
Support for Bluetooth-connected barcode scanners.TFS124935
Unlinking a Measurement Location from a Measurement Location Template.TFS61751
Accessing a list of recent Routes. TFS61638
Table 111. Systems and Tags
NoteTracking ID(s)
Viewing trends for multiple OPC Tags simultaneously (i.e., the Process Data Viewer feature in V3).TFS62299
Table 112. Thickness Monitoring
NoteTracking ID(s)
Corroded Area Measurements.TFS101752
Dataset integration with dataloggers.TFS83553
Exporting data to Excel via the TM Dataloggers interface.N/A