Third Quarter of 2019

Production Loss Analysis (PLA)

This topic provides a list of product changes released for this module on the dates listed below.

Release Date: September 27, 2019

Table 1. Enhancements and New Features

The following enhancements and new features have been added.

DescriptionTracking ID
You can no longer modify or delete the baseline Impact Codes and Production Event Codes.US357670
When creating a concurrent time-based Production Plan from a plan template, if you modify the start date, the end date is now automatically updated based on the duration defined in the template.US357386
In the Units workspace, in the Production Profile datasheet, you can no longer modify the values in the Product and Product Alias boxes if this Production Profile is associated with a Production Plan.US351643
You can now perform the following tasks if you enable the State Management functionality for the Production Event family:
  • Submit a Production Event for review.
  • Approve or reject a Production Event.
  • Resubmit a Production Event for review.
  • Reopen a Production Event.
Note: By default, the State Management functionality is disabled for the Production Event family.
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You can now perform the following tasks if you enable the State Management functionality for the Production Plan family:
  • Submit a Production Plan for review.
  • Approve or reject a Production Plan.
  • Resubmit a Production Plan for review.
  • Reopen a Production Plan.
  • Close a Production Plan.
Note: By default, the State Management functionality is disabled for the Production Plan family.
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To enhance usability, the values that appear in the Product drop-down list box in the Production Profile datasheet and the Products column in the Production Plan Builder window are now sorted primarily in numeric order and secondarily in alphabetical order.US322774
You can now deactivate and activate Products. To facilitate this enhancement, the Status field has been added to the Product family. In addition, the Deactivate button () and the Activate button () have been added to the Products workspace in the PLA Administrator page.
Note: By default, all the Products are active.
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You can now access a set of baseline Production Event Codes. To facilitate this enhancement, in the Event Codes section, the following parent Production Event Codes, along with their child codes, have been added:
  • External Losses
  • Operational Losses
  • Planned Losses
  • Quality Losses
  • Speed Losses
  • Unaccounted Losses
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You can no longer modify or delete the baseline OEE Codes.US289763
To enhance usability, in the PLA Administrator page, a warning message now appears when you navigate away from the Codes and Units workspaces without saving your changes.US281138
When creating a Production Plan for a given Production Unit and start date, if another Production Plan already exists for the same Production Unit and start date, a warning message now appears to indicate the possibility of creating a duplicate Production Plan.US258520
Table 2. Resolved Issues

The following issues, which existed in one or more previous versions, have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, in the Production Event family, the Unit Key was stored in the Unit field. When you ran a query for Unit Name from Production Event family, the Unit Key was returned. This issue has been resolved.DE118908
Previously, all the monetary and quantity values did not appear according to the number of decimal places (that is, precision values) specified in the Settings window.DE105830

Release Date: September 6, 2019

Table 3. Resolved Issues

The following issues that existed in one or more previous versions have been resolved.

DescriptionTracking ID
Previously, if you were assigned to the Production Loss Accounting Administrator Security Role and you attempted to remove the mapping between an Impact Code and an OEE Code, an error occurred if the mapping was used in a Production Loss record. This issue has been resolved.DE115705
Previously, the State Management functionality was not activated even if you had enabled the State Management functionality. This issue has been resolved.DE115597
Previously, if the values in the Product Name and Product Alias fields of a Production Profile were different in APM or in the Production Loss Analysis (PLA) 1-Admin Data Loader, when you attempted to import Production Plans for the Production Profile using the Production Loss Analysis (PLA) 3-Plan Data Loader, the import job failed. This issue has been resolved.DE115364
Previously, when reconciling production losses, you could not modify the estimated downtime value in the EDT field. This issue has been resolved.DE115081
Previously, the list of active Products that appeared when creating or modifying Production Profiles, Plan Templates, and Production Plans were not sorted numerically. This issue has been resolved.DE114902
Previously, when you attempted to create a Production Plan using a Plan Template, the Plan End Time was not automatically set based on the Plan Start Time. This issue has been resolved.DE114901
Previously, when creating a Production Plan for a given Production Unit and start date, if another Production Plan already existed for the same Production Unit and start date, a warning message did not appear to indicate the possibility of creating a duplicate Production Plan. This issue has been resolved.DE114900
Previously, the Event ID was automatically generated in the format <Event ID> ~ <Unique Sequence Number>. The format has been changed to <Unit Name> ~ <Headline> ~ <Unique Sequence Number>, so that you can add information from the Headline field.DE116525