As of now a list of all production control codes can be exported from PC-Topp.NET for further use in other applications. You can create it either in PDF format or as an Excel file via the “Print / Export Production Control Codes List” link in the toolbox of the Production Control Codes page.

For more detailed information on the PC-Topp.NET Production Control Codes functionality see Trigger Special Actions for Individual Orders with Production Control Codes

 

On a small scale, the former PC-Topp.NET Flop Ten functionality already allowed storing and displaying short texts on customer particularities. This basic feature has been renamed to Extra Customer Info and extended so that one PDF file per customer can be accessed directly in PC-Topp.NET. This lets you store much more customer information than before because a PDF file can contain any amount of text as well as images.

Besides PDF files the functionality also supports text documents of all file types and graphics file formats. (The files must be stored in a dedicated folder on your network. Additionally, the customer with whom the document is to be associated must be entered in the Extra Customer Info list that you can access via “Settings“.)

The documents associated with a customer will be displayed in all places where PC-Topp.NET shows Extra Customer Info (ex Flop Ten) texts. Currently they are accessible via the General tab of the PC-Topp.NET Machine Terminal. If there is a document available for the customer whose order is currently running a PDF icon is displayed in "Instructions & Comments" next to the Flop Ten image. Clicking the PDF icon opens the document. In the future links to customer specific documents will be provided in the other PC-Topp.NET pages displaying Extra Customer Info texts, too.

The Personnel tab of the PC-Topp.NET Machine Terminal has been equipped with the password-protected possibility to sign in as an engineer (provided the user is marked as engineer in the Personnel Numbers page).

With this new functionality, an engineer can leave comments on the problems he has attended to that will be displayed in the shift report. Besides he can make sure that the time spent fixing a problem will be registered as such.

Settings for machines, personnel numbers, waste reasons, downtime reasons allow restoring deleted elements resp. final elimination of deleted elements (important for statistics).

You can choose now if the Article Settings page should display all article settings or just the user created article settings.

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.)

AS of now, PC-Topp can also handle quadruple flutes.

The parameters program Personnel Numbers used be available only as a classical DOS program. Now it has been implemented in PC-Topp.NET as well with an improved user interface.

The listings of PC-Topp Paper Codes and Board Grades are now available as PDF files in the new design of all PC-Topp Crystal reports, or can be downloaded as Excel files. The new output formats offer several advantages: The PDF documents are more nicely formatted and yield A4-sized, easy to read print-outs compared to their classical predecessors. They appear on-screen first and can be sent to the printer only if a hard copy is needed. The PDFs and Excel files can be emailed or stored on your hard disc for further use. The Excel files can be used for importing data to other applications, e.g. databases or word-processing programs.

Step by step, all parameter listings will become available as PDF and Excel files, thus eliminating the need for printing through the classical PC-Topp modules.