The PC-Topp.NET Article page allows entering comments for articles that used to be shown only at the Machine Terminal so far. The PC-Topp.NET Conversion Machine Scheduling page nows displays those article comments in a tooltip that pops up when you move the mouse over an order's article number (if there is a comment for this article).

A double click on the Comments & Instructions field of the General tab in the PC-Topp Machine Terminal now displays comments and instructions associated with an order in full length (used to be cut off).

The PCTopp.NET Machine Settings page now offers the new machine types "To Stock", "From Stock", "Predecessor" and "Successor". 

(So far the conversion steps "To / From Stock" (for orders with sheets / products taken from or going to stock instead of a preceding or next machine) as well as "Predecessor" and "Successor" (for linked orders) could only be modelled with the help of a workaround: The machine types "NIL Corrugator" and "Shipping" represented them in PC-Topp.)

The new report offers downtime analysis for the conversion machines with information on number, duration and totals per downtime cause.

The calculation of order duration in PC-Topp has been significantly enhanced. The system can now use the statistics data of an article's production history to calculate the production time of orders for this article more precisely.

For any article you can define if its set-up speed, production speed, and target speed should be either of the following:

• The speed settings of the machine(s) the article will run on
• The statistics data of the article's production history
  You can define in detail
  
  • if the article history data should be used for all articles with valid data or for just a selection of articles,
  • conditions for the validity of the article history data (maximum number of days in the past, minmum number of runs)
    
• A user defined speed