New User Interface for By-Products within the MES Screen to show list of By-Products in a Grid Control and allow multiple By-Products to be Posted for Output at the same time. If you wish to use the tile layout (as per V1.5.6) you can select the Legacy By-Products option in the "MES Setup" screen

Removed need to select the Variant Code Tile when the By-Product Item does not have any Variants setup against it

Added support for Manufacturing Plus By-Products through the Clever MES Device. To activate enable the Use Manufacturing Plus By-Products attribute within the "MES Setup" screen

It is now possible to setup unlimited operators within the MES Device - removing the previous limit of 4

Implemented new Clever Dynamics Onboarding functionality for Assisted Setup after installation

With Legacy By-Product posting, the Negative Consumption entries created as part of the process where showing in the Posted Consumption screen. This has now been resolved to only show actual consumption rather than By-Products

Fixed issues with Operation being Stopped automatically when using the All Lines option on the Machine Centre setup

Fixed issue with the Stop process printing the last Output Label when Clever MES is used in conjunction with Clever Labelling

Resolved issue with Operator Names longer than 20 Characters causing a "Length of String" error

Resolved Issue with Serial Numbers Automatically Incrementing when Opening the "Notes" Pages

Resolved issue with not being able to specify Expiration Date on Output Item where Expiration Date is required but no Calculation Date is defined on Item Tracking Code. Expiration Date is now available for user to enter on the MES Item Tracking screen.

Container No. now available for By-Product where required

Added New Events to support Bespoke Development for Output processes

Output and Stop feature is not compatible when using Tooling, therefore the option is disabled when Tooling is in use

Resolve issue with weigh scale integration - where error occurs if you have not setup a weigh device against every Machine Centre

Added support for Tooling - to be introduced as part of Clever Manufacturing Plus - not yet released

Added new Integration Events to support custom data selection filtering for Components grid

Added Support for Clever Printer Selections

Added Support for Clever Labelling

Business Central Compatibility Issues:

- Target BC24

Added support for Containers for both Consumption and Output

Added changes to Notes functionality, to support Clever Comments and to show the No. of Notes that have been created against the Production Order. In addition the Operator is now able to see Notes that have been created from the MES Device

MES Operator Changes

Added Blocked Flag to MES Operator screen to enable an Operator to be removed from the MES Device Operator List. In addition, if using Access Codes then a Blocked Operator will not be able to log on to a Production Order through the MES

Added setup to MES Operator to be able to Bypass the cost posting of the MES Operator, but still capture the times they are logged onto a production process through the MES Device Log

Added configuration to enable flushed components to be hidden from the MES Device Components screen, as detailed here

New configuration to allow a business to control whether they wish to post the actual Setup/Run Time from the MES Device or use the Routing Line Setup/Run Times when posting Capacity Costs against the Production Order, with global setup and machine level overrides. 

Display the Stopped Time on the MES Device when the Machine is stopped

New configuration field to allow the Order Multiple to be overridden on the Output screen

Clever MES now captures the production starting and ending date-times on Production Order Routing Lines, as well recording the last output date-time, to provide better reporting capabilities of "in-process" Production Orders

New Consolidation Output Tracking screen to enable the Operator to define all required Item/Container Tracking in one screen

Weigh Scale Integration added (via PrintNode Weigh Scale API) to allow capture of weight from scales for both consumption and output

Added capability to view and reverse posted consumption and output directly within the MES, configurable through MES Setup

Added configuration option to control whether to show the soft allocated Serial No. (on Output screen) when assigning from No. Series. Potential issue that the Serial No. shown may not be the one used when Output is confirmed. If turned off then "AUTO" will be shown on the Serial No. on the Output screen

Allowed Consolidated Components (Machine Centre setting) to work independently of the Component Handling settings on MES Setup, which allows for a mix of Machine Centre settings to be applied when in use on a MES Device

Removed ability to add an MES Operator to a Production Order on the MES if the setup of the Operator is invalid, which should rectify the issue of Operators re-appearing on the MES Device due to capacity posting errors.

Rectified date formatting issues

Resolved Issue with Production Order Search feature not returning correct results within the MES

Resolved Issue which resulted in a recursion error message being shown to the user and prevented the MES from being Stopped. This occurred when the next Routing Line on the Production Order has a "Flushing Method" set to Backward

Added Events OnBeforeSerialNoRequired and OnBeforeLotNoRequired to support custom handling of whether to enforce user input of Tracking through MES

Resolved Issue with the consumption journal Bin Code being set incorrectly

Added new capabilities to store production activity information on Production Orders, as detailed here.

Resolved Issue with the Cancel Button on the Output and Stop Function not working correctly

Added New Events:

- OnBeforeGetOperatorMachineCentre

- OnAfterInitItemJnlLine

- OnBeforePostDeviceTime

- OnBeforePostOutput

Changed the "Resource Exposure Policy" to TRUE

Added a New Event to Support Custom Component Posting

Resolved Issue which occurred when Posting Consolidated Components with Item Tracking Enabled

Added a New Button to MES Screen - "Output and Stop"

Added Ability to be able to Search by Production Order Number on MES Screen

Added Functionality to Automatically Create MES Device from a Machine Centre

Business Central Compatibility Changes:

- Update Target Platform to BC21

- Update App Logo

- Correct Outdated Help Links in App JSON

Resolved Issue with Setup Time being Posted as Runtime Incorrectly

Allow Item Pictures to be displayed on the MES Screen

Allow Item Attribute Values to be displayed on the MES Screen

Added Functionality to allow users to Post Setup time only for an Operation

Added Functionality to be able to enter Decimals in the Output Quantity Field on MES Screen.  This also includes:

- Localisation Improvements to show correct Quantity Separators i.e., Decimal for English and Comma for French

Published New Events which can be used on Production Order Completion

Implemented Changes to resolve issue with Database Locking.  This could occur when there were a huge number of Production Records when Clever MES was trying to set the Quantity Available to Start Field

Business Central Compatibility Changes:

- Add Do Not Show Again Option on MES Setup Notification

- Update App to Runtime 9

Resolve issues with App Registration Process

Resolved Issue where the Output Quantity Button and Tile were being displayed when the Post Output During Setup Time Field was not enabled

Added Functionality to allow Users to enter Expiry Dates and Warranty Dates against Item Tracked Items on Output

Add the "Browse to Portal" Button onto Ribbon on MES Setup Page

Extend MES Portal Functionality to Support Serial Number Tracking