Shifts marked red in the Plant Summary and in the Shift Overview point out erroneous shift data. Even so, up to now clicking on such a red shift could lead to no faulty entries being displayed in the classical Production Statistics interface if the entry type concerned was being hidden at that moment.

Now all erroneous entries are displayed no matter if their type is set to "View" or not.

In order to have nice shift starting times in the statistics some users change the actual shift start to an even time (e.g. 4:52 to 5:00). If any events have occurred in the time span between real and made-up start time (e.g. a quality check at 4:56) they unintentionally get to be placed outside the shift.

PC-Topp reacts to this by creating an extra pseudo shift with normal shift length which contains these lost events. As this pseudo shift totally falsifies the working time of the day concerned it must be corrected by all means.

To make sure that you notice those pseudo shifts they are now highlighted in the Shift Overview page by displaying them in brackets.

Red and Orange Underruns

The number of produced sheets for the order appears on a red background for serious underruns, and on an orange background if the order is underrun, but the underrun can be tolerated.

In other words, orange will only appear if the new Minimum Overrun Tolerance field in the classical Order Entry / Update screen is used.

The Underrun Orders page can be viewed on http://demo.pctopp.com

Microsoft has today ended its support for the Windows NT operating system.

We must also announce that PC-Topp.NET is not supported any more under Windows NT. That is so because many of Microsoft's system components that PC-Topp needs to function don't work under that legacy operating system. PC-Topp.NET clients are supported exclusively under Windows XP Professional and under Windows 2000. Support under future versions of Windows will be announced as soon as any adaptations that may be required have been implemented.

If your system still runs under Windows NT, then you should strongly consider upgrading to new hardware and an up-to-date operating system. New hardware will most likely be necessary as it is likely that your PC is many years old, and cannot show the complex PC-Topp.NET web pages with adequate speed.

The Corrugator Scheduling page now lets you choose what you want to see in the board grade column of the corrugator schedule. So far only the grade code was displayed there but now a new link in the View section of the Toolbox toggles the display between the following states:

• Display Grade Code shows the grade code as before.
• Display Grade Remarks shows the optional remarks that can be entered in the board grade settings.
• Display Code and Remarks shows both the grade code and the remarks.

• Area produced (in m²)
• Lineal meters produced (in m)
• Production time (in h)

The "Entire Day" section affords a quick overview of the production results achieved so far. It can be displayed or hidden according to the users' needs.