The functionality for flagging orders in brown (e.g. to mark them as printed) used to be limited to the classical Conversion Machine Scheduling program. Now it is available in the PC-Topp.NET Order Summary as well.

In the left column of the Order Summary’s machine routing there is a new check mark icon whose color indicates if the order is flagged on the machine in question:

•    A brown check mark means that the order is flagged on this machine.
•    A grey check mark means it is not flagged on this machine.

You don’t have to start classical Conversion Machine Scheduling any more to switch the flagging on and off. You can now conveniently do so by simply clicking the check mark icon.

The display of flagged orders in PC-Topp.NET Conversion Machine Scheduling with the check mark icon in front of the order number remains unchanged. Just the check icon now is brown instead of black.

Clicking on the customer name, a machine code or any of the other links in an order takes you to a page showing orders e.g. by customer or by machine. However, it used to be hard to find the order you clicked on on that page - it could be hidden from view, or it could be necessary to page forward or backward to get it on the screen at all.

PC-Topp.NET now offers new functionality to make navigating between different order views much easier: When you click on a link in an order, the page that appears will always show the order you clicked on, usually near the top of the page, and the order will be marked by a small black arrow on the left so you can spot it as soon as the page opens.

Not only does this new feature make your work with PC-Topp.NET more comfortable but it also lets you navigate back and forth from one order view to the next and back again rapidly and with ease. No more loss of orientation while browsing the different order views, no more tedious searching for the original order in a new context.

This works in any page, whether it shows a list of orders or just the summary of one order.

But where are the drawings?

In more and more plants, drawings are available for the article, the print specification or the forme, and a click on, for example, the Stereo Number brought up that drawing. Now, that same link takes you to a page showing all orders using that stereo.

The drawing is now accessed by clicking the little icon to the left of that link, usually a tiny PDF icon. If a drawing is available, then the icon is active (=red) and clicking on it will bring up the desired drawing. When it is inactive (greyed out), then no drawing is available.

The Program Memory page marks schedules containing orders that require special scores with a little red icon ( , see Orders with Special Scores Marked in Program Memory).

The same functionality has now been added to the Corrugator Scheduling page. There the red icon now shows you the board grades and dates containing orders with special scores so you can check those orders in detail.

In the pop-up that appears when you click on a date, the orders with special scores are marked in the same way so you can easily locate them.

Among your customers there are always some who are especially important and whose orders have to be treated preferentially. So far it was difficult to locate those orders in Corrugator Scheduling to check which of them you have to produce next.

Now the Corrugator Scheduling page lets you effortlessly find your important customers' orders with the help of the new Find Customer feature.
The green magnifying glass icon in the Toolbox shows you where to look for the new functionality. Select the flute type you want to search and enter a customer name in the search box next to the green icon or select a name from the popup list just like e.g. in the machine search in Conversion Machine Scheduling.
As soon as you have confirmed your selection the customer is highlighted:

• In the head of the Toolbox the name of the selected customer starts flashing to indicate which customer is currently active.
• In the board grade list the grades containing orders of the selected customer are highlighted by a green background.
• In the corrugator schedule the days when orders for the said customer are scheduled to be run appear with a green background as well.
• When you click those days to view their order details you find this customers orders marked by a green background, too.

No more tedious manual searching for a customers orders - with a few clicks you can spot them right away. For a better overview you can hide all board grades except those containing orders of the customer you want to view by clicking the Toolbox link "Green Grades Only". And a click on "Clear Customer" cancels the highlighting and sets the interface back to normal.

The classical Service Customers program has been replaced by a PC-Topp.NET web page which offers more features than the old program.

If you haven't been using that functionality: Service Customers is a small group of clients who guarantee you a high order volume regularly, and for whom you can reserve capacity on the machines in advance using the program "Capacity Reservations".

Additionally, a new type of customer has been introduced: Flop Ten customers are a kind of client every plant has, clients where everything goes wrong, or clients who are too critical. PC-Topp now allows you to identify them and attach a specific remark to each of them that warns of the special conditions and dangers for that customer. It works in the same way as the Service Customers and you get to it by clicking on the link "Flop Ten Customers" in the Service Customers Toolbox.

To create a new Flop Ten or Service Customers entry, select a name from the automatic dropdown in the Customer Name field. And you can optionally add a message that then appears at orders for that customer.

Flop Ten customers and Service customers are clearly marked throughout PC-Topp: The names of Service customers are displayed in blue, those of Flop Ten customers in red letters (see screenshot). If you move your mouse over a Flop Ten customer name the message for this customer is displayed in a Tooltip.

At the Machine Terminal a warning appears whenever an order for a Flop Ten customer is run: Either the message entered for the customer or - if there is no message - the hint "Flop Ten Customer" is displayed in red letters.

Visit the new pages on http://demo.pctopp.com.