Release 1.4 Change summary and explanation
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
Redesigned Customer information
The previously separated content of customers CSRs and IATF OEM KPIs is now unified based on the customer. This allows to collect all relevant entries for one customer in one place. It removes duplicate entry of data and allows to add optional comments per customer.
The new design is only a restructuring compared to entries in previous versions (last 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.
08.08.23
Due to issues of writing a customer name differently in the CSRs and KPIs the merging will not recognize the same customer as identical an create a separated customer for CSRs and KPIs. The supplier code was previously only added to the CSRs.
To resolve the issue of data not being automatically merged merge button was added. We recommend using this at the latest on inheritance to unify all data of one customer into one customer data set.
Merging customer data into one customer
The merge button will open a simple drop down menu and ask you where the data of that customer is going to be imported to. It will transfer all supplier codes, checkbox activation CSRs and KPIs from one customer to another.
Please choose the customer you want to keep based on the name as it won’t be changed. We recommend to save the report first before the execution so you can restore your previous data if needed.
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 inheritance has a legacy migration support which will import shifts into existing manufacturing processes and add shift as name.
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). Please check all fields if they have to be changed for the specific process.
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.
Significant improvements on data importer
Added support for updating elements on data import. Added more fields for data importer for processes. Data importer for lists and quick entries
20 day major NC client submission
In the NC management the submission confirmation for the client is now separated between the previous submission field and a new 20 day submission field after S5 *Systemic corrective actions, including timing and responsible person. This allows the client to recognize which data is expected to be completed within the 20 days.
Rest
Smaller changes can be found in the Release Information.