HxGN SFx | Asset Management Release 3.0

HxGN SFx | Asset Management version 3.0 is a major release that contains many new features as well as stability and performance improvements:

• OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness)
• Better Information from PC-DMIS
• Changes to Utilisation Graphics
• Screen Graphics Update in Real Time
• Data Export Improvements
• Overhaul of Schedule Setup Screens
• New Asset Sorting and Filtering Options
• Changes to User Roles
• New User Preferences
• Banner Notifications
• Tooltips for More Screen Controls

OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness)

• Performance – monitor your equipment’s operating capacity.
• Quality – track your measurement process’s success rate.
• Overall – measure your equipment’s overall effectiveness.

Better Information from PC-DMIS

Note: The changes described in this section depend on using PC-DMIS 2019 R2 and installing Service Pack 3.

Better routine status information

• Routine progress based on execution time
  • New states including Waiting and Error
  • New events include Routine Cancelled, Paused, Resumed, Error, Edit Mode, and Operator Input Requested
  • Utilisation charts include time in Error state
• Error messages from more controllers
  • Messages relayed from all types of machine controllers that PC-DMIS interfaces with
  • This means that machine controllers that do not have a direct interface to Asset Management may interface with it indirectly via PC-DMIS
• Improved Stability and Robustness
  • Enhances the reliability of the PC-DMIS-cloud connection

Changes to Utilisation Graphics

• Improvements to make the utilisation charts more responsive to changes in status
• Asset Utilisation chart is relabelled “Utilisation Over Time”
• Runtime-Not-Runtime chart is relabelled “Utilisation Summary”
• Labels are harmonised to OEE terminology (i.e., “Operating” rather than “Busy” and “Runtime”)
• Error time is now displayed on utilisation charts (Note: This change depends on using PC-DMIS 2019 R2 and installing Service Pack 3)
• Unknown time is displayed as text next to Operating and Not Operating in asset detail view
• Routine name is added to tooltip in Utilisation Over Time chart

Screen Graphics Update in Real Time

• Asset Status
• Routine information
• Pulse status
• Event Log
• See subscribed event notifications on your desktop via Windows Action Centre or macOS Notification Centre
  

Data Export Improvements

• Export System Report to CSV
• Asset export now includes:
  
  • Last Used Date
  • Device ID
  • Connector
  • SFx Connector Version

Overhaul of Schedule Setup Screens

• Click to add shifts
• Set up shifts for multiple days at once
• Save company holidays

New Asset Sorting and Filtering Options

• Sort assets by any filter option
• New filter option for Overall Status
• Filter now works on the Table View of assets
• Adjust the display order of filters on the screen

Changes to User Roles

• A new user role, Asset Administrator, is added with permissions for adding/deleting/editing assets
• Asset Administrator role does not have permissions for adding/deleting/editing user accounts
• The original “Administrator” role is renamed as “Account Administrator” and maintains all its original permissions, including those for adding/deleting/editing both assets and user accounts

New User Preferences

• Basic informatio
• Language and Region
• Contact information and Addresses
• Password and Security questions

Banner Notifications, such as:

• “Asset Management has been updated! Check out What’s New!”
• “The system will be down for maintenance updates for 1 hour this weekend.”
• “Your new Pro subscription is available. Go to Subscriptions to assign it to an asset.”

Tooltips for More Screen Controls

• Sort
• Filter
• Table View/Card View
• Expand/Shrink
• Date Selection
• Collapse

Additional Improvements

• Pulse Firmware added to System Report
• Last Calibration Date relabelled “Last Certification Date”
• See Last Access date and time by user (Account Administrators only)