In Release 1.4 elements for IATF CARA were restructured to provide a better display of information and support an IATF rule compliant data entry.
Renaming of Supporting and Providing Locations
Providing support location is now named Receiving support from
Receiving support location is now named Providing support to
Redesigning of Customer information
The previously separated content of customers CSRs and IATF OEM KPIs is now unified based on Customer information. This collects all relevant entries for one customer removes duplicate entry of data and allows to add optional comments per customer.
The new design is only restructured compared to entries in version 1.3.3. Old design reports will be automatically migrated into the new structured reports. The old description of actions implemented when performance not met is now entered per customer. Only for old reports it will be still shown and printed separately because it can not be automatically migrated into the new report design.
Redesigning of Processes section and Manufacturing processes
In IATF CARA manufacturing processes are defined in the processes section. As the shifts belong to the process they are now added in this section as well. For reports created before version 1.4 the old manufacturing page will be still shown. For new reports the shift entry is expected to be entered in the shifts sections of the process. Per shift a name has to be entered, the shift times and the audit cycle can be selected when the shift was audited. For extended sites the site has to be selected from the list of available sites. The shift entry has a quick entry support i.e. defining the start and end times of previous and following shifts based on the shift times of the shift you are editing; when adding new shifts using the previous name and incrementing it; setting a default name “Shift” + no.
The expected data entered remains the same as in version 1.3.3. The shift section is based on business logic and will only be shown in manufacturing processes depending if the process is defined as on site process or extended manufacturing process.
The audit information can now be split into sections with their own headlines which are optional. The entry can still be completed without any use of the new options by just entering data into audit notes.
The CSRs entered in the customer information section can now also be selected as reference. It will show the customer name and the CSR name.
Processes can now also be copied to reuse similar information like (shifts and IATF clauses).
Shortcuts
It is now possible to use the default shortcuts to “Ctrl”+”p” and “Ctrl”+”s” to print and save a report while in the report section. “Ctrl”+”b” or “Ctrl”+”q” will create a backup. “Ctrl”+”u” will start the REST-Api upload process if available.
Smaller changes can be found in the Release Information.