EPICS Changes Since Last Year

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EPICS Changes Since Last Year
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Review of New EPICS Features Added Since the 2006
Conference(V8.4.1 8.5.3)
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2006 Wishlist Top-20

• Physical Inventory module
• One-time ship-to addresses at order entry
• Fabrication module
• Add change log to ShiftProd
• Billet PO Module
• Change customer numbers, die numbers, part
  numbers
• Warn user if line item has changed and pricing
  may be affected
• Stock Inventory Module
• Nitriding program with schedule
• Allow mass change of PackCode, ShipTol, and ReqDt
• Add all sales orders to picklist
• Other department scheduling screen
• Record user that created part number
• Retain ticket numbers for material to/from
  outside
• Separate stock from scrap on status screen
• lt gt operators for QBE on dates
• Allow back and forward date recalculations for
  bottleneck departments
• Backlog screen highlight jobs that are on hold
  (plant or credit)
• Add note category to display when posting
  production

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One-time Ship-To addresses 2
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Major New Features( Wishlist item)

• Billet Inventory and Billet PO features 5
• More Later

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Major New Features

• Stock Inventory Features 8

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Major New Features

• Stock Inventory Features (contd)
• Create stock replacement orders

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Major New Features

• Start and Stop times for packing 37

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Major New Features

• Start and Stop times for packing (contd)

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Order Entry Improvements

• Warn if any changes you have made may affect
  pricing 7

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Improved Crystal Reports Viewer

• More tomorrow

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Advanced Data Collection Screen Improvements

• Highlight rework lines in cyan instead of yellow
• Allow right-clicks on scrap, rework, and downtime
  codes when in view mode

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Advanced Data Collection Screen Improvements
(continued)

• Rack Tracking
• Ignore "NON-PRODUCTION" departments when
  determining next or previous department in
  routing
• Ignore STOCK department unless it is the last
  department in the routing

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Advanced Data Collection Screen Improvements
(continued)

• Changes tab shows all changes made to
  production records
• Keyboard shortcuts
• and - keys add/subtract one minute from
  start or stop time
• N (Now) key inserts current time
• Enable right-clicks on Press Schedule tab

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Packing/Shipping/Stock

• New "Add All Orders" button on "Scan for Orders"
  tab of the Advanced Shipping screen 11
• Allow input of rack ID and next department when
  rework is posted from packing ticket screen

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Invoicing

• New "My Unprinted Invoices" option when printing
  invoices
• gInvoiceDefaultPrintMode determines default
  printing behavior

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Invoicing (continued)

• Allow input of Die, Alloy, Temper, and Finish for
  misc. charges

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Improved eResponse Library

• New eResponse.DLL includes built-in debugger

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Updated Crystal XI Runtime

• Includes all Crystal XI Service Packs and
  Hot-fixes (through March, 2007.)
• Very important for Citrix and Terminal Services

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User Interface Improvements

• Enable lt and gt operators for date fields on
  QBE screens 16

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User Interface Improvements (continued)

• Add PackCode and shipping tolerance to list of
  fields that may be changed for all items on a
  sales order 10

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User Interface Improvements (continued)

• Record the date that new parts are created and
  the user that created them in the PartChangeLog
  table 13

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User Interface Improvements (continued)

• Highlight jobs on hold on Backlog screen 18

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User Interface Improvements (continued)

• Highlight entire line of Press Schedule when
  user clicks on any field 32

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User Interface Improvements (continued)

• Prevent creation of new Orders, Quotes, and
  Invoices for inactive customers
• Fixed initialization conflict with Kaspersky and
  AOL Antivirus products
• Add "STOCK CUTBACK" department category that is
  ignored by workorder calculation routine

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User Interface Improvements (continued)

• Re-arrange Backlog screen to allow viewing of
  more data
• Allow multiple copies of the Billet, BilletPO,
  and BilletHist forms (and most others) to be open
  at the same time
• Improve encryption of EPICS user passwords
• Now uses 256-bit encryption

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User Interface Improvements (continued)

• Display local and network EPICS folder names on
  'Help/About EPICS' screen

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New Configuration Settings

• gPackWtCtrlKeysCalculate allows Ctrl-C and Ctrl-E
  calculations to be disabled on the Print New
  Tickets screen
• New gPackWtAutoCalculate options
• BillUnit - use ActWt if billed by weight or
  PrintWt otherwise
• BillUnitExceptWt use PrintWt unless item is
  billed by the Lb or Kg

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New EPICS Features

• Questions