What's New in Plant Applications 2022

Supports the following:

• Silent mode installation and upgrade for Standard Web Client
• Automatic posting of Web Client applications into Operations Hub.

To facilitate this enhancement, a new search button ( ) is added in the BOM section of the Work Queue, Unit Operations, and in the BOM Details section of the Process Order applications. The BOM Details tab is added in the Process Order application.

This feature is applicable to Process Orders, Unit Operations, and Work Queue.

Updated the Master/Slave Unit terminology to Parent/Child for the following user interfaces:

• Administrator
• Excel Add-in
• Web Report Server, Reports, and Dialogs
• Thick Client components
• Web Client components
• Documentation

This is applicable to Plant Applications Thick Client, Thin Client, and Add-ins.

In Route Editor, you can now make required operations with the same sequence number (priority) as mutually exclusive.

So, in Work Queue, if any action is performed on an operation that is a part of the mutually exclusive set, by default, the other operations are mutually excluded. Whereas, in Unit Operations, you will not be able to view the operations that are excluded from the mutually exclusive set.

To facilitate this enhancement, the following changes are made:

• In Work Queue, a new column called Excluded QTY is added to the grid in the Queue section.
• In Unit Operations, the operations that are excluded from the mutually exclusive set are not displayed.

In Non Conformance, the following changes are made:

• When a non conformance is disposed as CTP to an operation in a mutually exclusive set, all the operations in that mutually exclusive set will go on hold by default.
• In the list of operations to be reworked, the excluded operations from the mutually exclusive set will not appear.

This feature is applicable to Work Queue, Unit Operations, and Non Conformance.

The filter selection is now persisted for a user for the following applications:

• Work Queue
• Work Order Manager
• Unit Operations
• Activities
• Process Order

Reset Grid to Default option is introduced in the settings ( ) that enables you to reset the grid of an application to default.

Enhanced performance for the following:

• Loading of receivers having more than 500 Serial Numbers or 500 samples within a lot.
• Navigating between Inspection Criteria and Inspection Results screen.

Adds filtering and enhanced search capability to the Autolog form. The Autolog form provides the following enhancements:

• New Value column
• Ability to filter records based on "no Value" or "-"
• Ability to filter variable values that are out of specification

Extends Comment Service V2 to the following process applications:

• Activities
• Downtime
• Process Order
• Waste Management

There is no change in security level.

The Comment Service V2 converts the old V1 window into a RichText window that allows users to:

• Apply style sheet to the text.
• Attach images and videos.

Supports Persist Record Grouping functionality for the following applications across login sessions in 10% and 90% screens

• Work Order Manager
• Unit Operations
• Work Queue
• Activities
• Process Order

Using this functionality, users can now:

• Save the searched text that includes grid filters and goto search.
• Persist filters and groupings across login sessions.
• Use the Funnel icon to reset the filters.
  Note: When a filter is applied, the Funnel icon is enabled and clickable.

Provides the following enhancements to the Receiving Inspection interface:

• Ability to scan the Receiver number using a Camera.
• Ability to display scanned records in a different row for a Receiver number.

Now you can set Variable Alias name and display it instead of Variable name in the Receiving Inspection application. The variable alias name helps you to understand the type of variable easily.

To facilitate this enhancement, the following changes are made:

• In Plant Applications Administrator’s variable sheet, to set a variable alias, a new column called Variable Alias is added.
• To control the display of the Variable Alias field instead of the Variable Name field, in the app properties YML file, a property called DisplayVariableAlias is added. You can set the property as True to display the Variable Alias field.

In Receiving Inspection, we can now compose comments at the following levels:

• Receiving Inspection level
• Lot level
• Test (quality variable) level

To facilitate this enhancement, to compose comments at lot level and test (quality variable) level, a new button () is added in the Inspection Criteria section. To compose comments at Receiving Inspection level, a new button () is added in the Inspection Criteria section.

In Non Conformance, we can now dispose a non-conformance defect that was created from Receiving Inspection.

To facilitate this enhancement, in Non Conformance, the following dispositions are added:

• SRAP
• REWORK
• MRB
• RTV
• DIT
• ACCEPT
• RISK RELEASE

In Receiving Inspection, if you optionally use an unapproved supplier status for a receiver, the receiver goes on hold.

To facilitate this enhancement, the following change is made:

The on hold ( ) status indicator is added.

In Receiving Inspection, you can now view the test history details like under which unit and line the test was created, the current value, when it was entered, who performed the test, and who verified the test.

To facilitate this enhancement, the following change is made:

In the Inspection Criteria section, in the column that lists all the samples (either for a lot or a lot’s variable), a new button () is added. To view the test history, you can select the button and then select Show Test History.

In Configuration, you can now add custom and standard tabs for Receiving Inspection.

To facilitate this enhancement,

• In Standard Tab, Receiving Inspection is included in the list of Applications.
• In the Custom Tab, Receiving Inspection is included in Tab Association.

In Receiving Inspection, you can now add prefix and suffix to the samples that you create for serialized samples materials.

To facilitate this enhancement, the following changes are made:

• In the Edit Traceability’s Add subsection, PREFIX and SUFFIX fields are added. You can enter any alphanumerical value with any special characters. For example, AV-2022.
• The validation of duplicate serial numbers happens along with the concatenation of the string that you entered.

This feature is applicable to Configuration.

In Receiving Inspection, while submitting inspection results, you can now select multiple serials/lots at once and update the status.

To facilitate this enhancement, the following changes are made in the Inspection Results section:

• Checkboxes are added in all the serials/lots rows.
• To select multiple serials/lots at once, a checkbox is added on the header row of the grid.
• A dropdown to select the status is added.

Supports the following features:

• Allows SN/Lot to repeat for different materials on the same line
• ERP: Display Serial number/ Lot wise status changes to material lot when sending back receiver
• Allows to regenerate samples

Via the Work Order Manager web application users with permission can add serials/lots to not started work orders.

Via Work Order Manager, Unit Operations or Work Queue Web applications, users with permission can add serials to started work orders that produce serialized parts.

In Route Editor, you can now make required operations with the same sequence number (priority) as mutually exclusive. So, if you perform one operation, then the other operation need not be performed.

To facilitate this enhancement, the following changes are made:

• To make the operations with same sequence number mutually exclusive, in the Edit Route page, a toggle control is added for all the operations in the grid. You can switch the toggle to make the operation as mutually exclusive to another operation.
• A new column called Mutual Exclusion is added to the grids in the following sections:
  • Overview
  • Attributes

Labor planning allows you to specify the amount of time to be spent by labor (people, machines) on operations (segment, planned unit). These times are specified when you create or edit a route.

Labor plans can be exported or uploaded to external schedulers (including ERPs) to inform execution planning and scheduling decisions. Labor plans are not used by execution; however, labor records created during execution might be used to compare execution against plan along multiple dimensions, including operator, line, product, and so on.

In Work Queue, we can now change the default value of 50 serial/lots for multiple selection during the following operations:

• Clock on
• Clock off
• Record

To facilitate this enhancement, to change the default value, a new property LotsToExecute is added in the following path:

• If you have installed Enterprise Plant Applications Web Client, this parameter is available in the following file:<installation_path>/PlantApplicationsDocker/plantapps-web-docker/mnt/configfiles/workqueue-app/prod/<version>/workqueue-app-prod.properties
• If you have installed Standard Plant Applications Web Client, this parameter is available in the following file: C:\Program Files\GE Digital\PlantApplicationsWebClient\config-repo\workqueue-app\prod\<version>\workqueue-app-prod.properties

After you change the value of the parameter, restart the Work Queue application.

A new feature, Alarms, has been added to the Plant Applications Web Client. This feature provides a detailed list of alarms that users can view and monitor. The list includes alarms that are:

• Open
• Completed
• Acknowledged

Alarms are configured for the following:

• To document alarm conditions in addition to reasons and actions
• For real-time and historical analysis
• To expose exception-based operating procedures
• To provide quality control and dispositioning

Provides a new feature, Inclusive to the My Machines application. Using this feature, users can now:

• Build their profiles to a narrow view before adding it to the users profile.
• Clear the existing profiles.

In Receiving Inspection, we can mark both serialized and non-serialized items that belong to a lot as periodic inspection and generate samples.

If the periodic inspection is delayed, but the material itself is acceptable to use, you can raise a non-conformance and release the other items that belong to the lot at risk.

To facilitate this enhancement, the following are added:

• In the Receiving Inspection’s Edit Traceability section, a new Periodic Inspection column with a check box is added in the grid. You can select this check box to select an item for periodic inspection, and then generate samples.
• In Receiving Inspection, the periodic inspection status indicator ( ) is added.
• In Non Conformance, Risk Release is added as a disposition type. You can release the other items of the lot from which you generated the periodic inspection sample, at risk (either to use or perform inspection).

Ability to display material custom properties and values in the Route Editor application for the following:

• For a route that creates a specific material.
• For a configured BOM item.

Allows users to edit properties on a route by a selecting a value from the drop-down list. Using the drop-down list, users can:

• Search and filter selected properties
• Add 100+ values to a single property
• Select a datatype when building the custom list via the custom table

Allows users to define RichText custom property and edit the default value for a property of data type RichText. The RichText functionality supports the following:

• Property Definition Application
• Route Editor Application
• Work Order Web User Interface
• ERP Import
• ERP Outbound

Ability to archive or delete Workflows from the Approval cockpit. An archived Workflow:

• Can be created only by the user who has created the Workflow or assigned to it.
• Cannot be triggered.
• Can activate the Workflow back from the archive.

Ability to export and download the downtime events data in the following format:

• CSV
• Excel

ERP import supports editing some properties for started/in progress process orders:

• Planned start and end dates
• Planned quantity
• Status

When updates are made, ERP outbound messages are generated upon successful processing of the inbound change request.

ERP import supports editing some properties for started/in progress work orders:

• Planned start and end dates
• Planned quantity
• Priority

When updates are made, ERP outbound messages are generated upon successful processing of the inbound change request.

Displays an ERP Outbound message that includes custom properties for the following:

• Work Order
• Operation Complete

The Work order create, delete, update, status change and complete outbound messages include these custom properties:

• Work order properties
• Material lot properties of the produced material
• Material lot properties of any raw material of a BOM item
• BOM item properties for route BOM item