Release 5.0 Highlights
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Latest amendments are written in blue.
General
- New modern look.
- The Copy / Paste menu is now available also in the filter fields.
- External numbers now up to 20 characters.
- Date/time filter fields can be defined in filters sets using words like today, yesterday, tomorrow, start / end of week, month or year.
Basic data
- Article identification up to 30 characters; Free choice for shorter display name.
- Powerful search of expressions inside article, parts list and article extensions.
- Easy renaming of existing articles.
- Basic data check to verify completeness according to predefined or customer specific criteria. Incomplete articles are marked with traffic light colors.
- New universal structure for all kind of articles.
- Standard and article specific work plans including work plan variants for all kind of articles.
- Efficient propagation of changed settings from standard to article specific work plans.
- Universal parts list depending of work plan including raw material variants.
- Hierarchical structure of articles to reflect different stages in production.
- Detailed history for modifications in basic data.
- Save document files (certificates, instructions etc) linked to articles inside the database (document management).
- Multiple language support for articles.
- Article and data type specific attributes to defined customer specific settings.
- Product specific article extensions for classification of articles.
Partner & Contact Management
- Detailed history for modifications in partner & contact management.
- Save documents files (certificates, instructions etc) concerning the partner or contact inside the database (document management).
- Topic related flexible fields to attach specific information to the partner / contact.
Document Management
- Import of document files into the database for permanent storage.
- Export of documents from the database.
- Document viewing out of the database.
- Link imported documents to partners, contacts, articles, orders and items.
Item Management
- New item management for all kind of items like pieces, warps, yarn-units, weaving reeds, beams, dyestuff chemicals etc.
- Powerful search of expressions inside items, dependent items, orders and articles.
- Numerical and graphical tracing capabilities.
- Save document files (certificates, protocols, reports etc) linked to items inside the database (document management).
- Detailed history for modifications of items.
- Empty beams can be put into the warp warehouse.
- New enhanced functionality for inventory taking.
Purchase Module
- Order request, purchase order, incoming invoice with automatic derivation from the former document.
- Order numbers up to 16 characters with free prefix and / or suffix.
- Order state indicated by traffic light.
- Detailed history for document modifications for tracing.
- Goods receipt.
Sales Module
- Offer, confirmation of order, invoice, delivery note with automatic derivation from former document.
- Order numbers up to 16 characters with free prefix and / or suffix.
- Order state indicated by traffic light.
- Detailed history for document modifications for tracing.
- Obtain of goods.
- Triggering of purchase orders for purchase articles / raw material.
- Triggering of production orders for articles to be produced.
Costing
- New costing application introduced. Costing is a new LOOMDATA Software option.
Maintenance Tool
- New enhanced maintenance tool for machines and devices introduced.
Production Order (former Customer Order)
- Order numbers up to 16 characters with free prefix and / or suffix.
- Order state indicated by traffic light.
- Detailed history for document modifications for tracing.
- Universal production order for all articles / departments.
- Proposal board for production orders based on open orders.
- Obtain of raw material.
- Receipt of produced items.
Improvements in Reports and Dialogs
- Report headers and data with word wrap.
- Colored rows to show special states.
- Thousand separator for numerical values.
- Missing fields are marked by a special color.
Ticket Print Dialog
- Preview of the ticket in the object navigator.
Machine Layout
- New tab Shift book in machine detail with all entries of the machine.
Weaving Tracker
- Visualization of shift- and shift-less time in the background of the machines.
- Improved refresh performance.
Preparation
- Option Force P-Order entry in A3 replaced by new option Allow entry of P-Order. See Options Preparation for details.
Forecast Calculation
- Back scheduling in weaving preparation based on the nominal start or nominal end date of the weaving order the warp(s) belong to.