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Changelog

Release history for the Watchmen Platform user interface.

Releases

2026-08-19v1.5.90
featureimprovement

UI-Build commit: 54e018d

Release date: August 19, 2026

New Features

Review and Correct Uploaded Order Files

After selecting an order file, you can now preview its file name, row and column count, and a sample of its contents before continuing.

Select Expand to edit to open the full file view. You can correct individual values, paste matching groups of values from Excel, and see how many cells you have changed before saving.

  • Column headings and row counts remain fixed, so the file structure cannot be changed accidentally.
  • Saved corrections are highlighted in the preview, making adjustments easy to review.
  • Closing the editor without saving discards unsaved changes and leaves the original file unchanged.

Understand Time-Setting Effects Before Uploading

The upload review now explains when a time value or the Industrial minutes setting changes preparation or production time, and identifies the affected row. This provides a clearer final check before you confirm an upload.

Identify Operations Using Industrial Minutes

Operations that use industrial minutes now show an Industrial minutes label next to their planned times. Hover over the label for a short explanation of the time convention.

Improvements

Choose How Operations Are Ordered

Within a work order, you can now sort operations by sequence number. Select the sort button beside Add operation, then choose Ascending or Descending to review the work in the order that best fits your planning or shop-floor workflow.

Delete Incorrect Time Entries

You can now remove an incorrect recorded time entry from Order Analysis. Open the entry menu, select Delete, review the displayed start and end time, and confirm the deletion.

Deletion is permanent. Once confirmed, Order Analysis and the related timeline immediately reflect the current production record.

2026-08-05
featureimprovement

Release period: August 2–5, 2026

Collaboration, Feedback, and Knowledge

Product Roadmap — August 5

A shared Roadmap lets users browse, search, sort, and vote on planned, in-progress, and released product work in English or German.

UI-Build commit: 3a82a15

Feedback Center — August 5

Users can submit feedback with supporting files, follow its status, and continue the conversation directly in the application.

UI-Build commit: 3a82a15

Company Invitations — August 2

Administrators can invite admins, users, and operators by email, resend or cancel pending invitations, and guide invitees through account setup.

Version: v1.5.88 UI-Build commit: 6409a61

Knowledge Intelligence — August 2

The Knowledge Base shows document readiness, sources, and connections, makes ready knowledge available in AI chats, and supports voice input.

Version: v1.5.81; serialization update in v1.5.88 UI-Build commits: 17e937f, 6409a61

2026-07-30
featureimprovement

Release period: July 2–30, 2026

Planning, Production, and Access

AI Data Controls — July 30

Administrators can choose which company data areas, including knowledge, tickets, and production information, the AI Assistant may use.

Version: v1.5.87 UI-Build commit: 17e937f

Operator Recovery — July 30

Operator Management lets administrators reset an operator password or resend account confirmation without creating a replacement account.

Version: v1.5.86 UI-Build commit: d520008

Status Filtering — July 30

Assignment Planner filters help planners focus on assignments by order status, including planned, running, on-hold, completed, and cancelled work.

Version: v1.5.85 UI-Build commit: 0df7933

Accurate Dashboards — July 26

Orders & Products summary totals now count each order once even when it has several assignments, while detailed tables can still show every assignment.

Version: v1.5.84 UI-Build commit: 8b11570

Hall Analytics — July 24

Hall Plan provides a live, hall-wide shift overview with improved kiosk controls and company branding.

Version: v1.5.83 UI-Build commit: 580313f

Quick Assignment — July 18

Operators can find an unplanned operation and assign it to the current machine directly from the production screen.

Version: v1.5.74 UI-Build commit: 5614213

Session Control — July 2

Users can review active sign-ins and end sessions that are no longer needed or recognized.

Version: v1.5.78 UI-Build commit: 24de3b1

2026-07-30v1.5.85
featureimprovement

UI-Build commit: d52000872

Release date: July 30, 2026

Improved Operator Settings

Operator administration now provides clearer and safer controls for managing operator access and credentials.

New Features

Safer Operator Deactivation

Administrators can deactivate an operator immediately without deleting historical data. Previous shifts, labels, and assignments remain preserved.

Generate New Operator Passwords

Administrators can generate a new password for eligible operators from Edit operator. Active sessions are ended, and the operator must sign in again with the new password.

Generated credentials are displayed only once and can be copied or downloaded before the window is closed.

Explicit Email Verification

Verification emails are sent only when an administrator explicitly requests one. They are never sent automatically after creating or editing an operator or regenerating an operator's password.

Unverified operators can still sign in and use their assigned access.

Administration Improvements

Only active operators are displayed in Operator Settings. Status indicators, confirmation messages, credential actions, and administration buttons now provide a clearer and more consistent experience.

2026-07-26v1.5.80
featureimprovement

UI-Build commit: 8b115707b

Release period: Late June–July 2026

New Features

Redesigned Orders & Products Dashboard

Orders & Products now provides a table-focused workspace for monitoring and analyzing production orders.

  • Filter by customer, order, product, machine, date range, assignment status, or live production.
  • Use summary cards for Total, Planned, In Progress, Completed, Live, and Needs Attention.
  • Identify orders that require attention because of exceeded durations, degraded cycle times, or overdue dates.
  • Expand grouped orders to review individual assignments.
  • Sort across the complete order dataset and move through results with server-backed pagination.
  • Switch progress displays between PDA production entries and detected cycle counts.
  • Select multiple orders for detailed analysis.
  • Enable automatic refresh and save column visibility preferences.

Hall Plan Kiosk and Display Management

Hall Plans can now be configured for unattended production-floor displays.

  • Use a simplified kiosk layout designed for wall-mounted screens.
  • Configure language, machine sorting, visible metrics, zoom, refresh frequency, and page rotation.
  • Choose which production statistics appear in the kiosk navigation.
  • Review display connectivity and last-seen information.
  • Automatically load new frontend builds on unattended displays.
  • Administrators can monitor live and offline Hall Plan devices.

Knowledge Base Workspace

The Knowledge Base now supports a document workflow and visual Knowledge Graph.

  • Upload files, images, or written notes and monitor their processing status.
  • Search and review stored documents.
  • Review suggested relationships with machines, orders, and products.
  • Confirm or reject suggested links.
  • Explore confirmed and suggested relationships in the Knowledge Graph.

Improvements

Data Acquisition (PDA)

Search for unplanned operations and assign them directly to a machine without leaving the PDA page.

Account Sessions

The user profile shows active sessions, including the device, browser, operating system, IP address, location, and login time. Users can sign out an individual device or all other sessions.

2026-06-19
featureimprovement

Release period: June 8–19, 2026

Production Insights and Automation

CO₂ Accuracy — June 19

Organization Statistics uses the emissions factor for the reporting year, making historical sustainability results and comparisons more accurate.

Version: v1.5.76 UI-Build commits: 8a80ddb, 424b96b, c8d4ceb

Automation Actions — June 16

The Automator rule editor offers more production measurements, conditions, and follow-up actions for everyday workflows.

Version: v1.5.75 UI-Build commit: 0154c61

Planner Search — June 15

Assignment Planner can search by order, product, customer, and machine to narrow large production plans quickly.

Version: v1.5.74 UI-Build commit: fdf1dcc

Scrap Breakdown — June 8

Material and work-related scrap can be recorded separately and reviewed with their combined total in order-management and analysis views.

Version: v1.5.73 UI-Build commits: b956b93, 3594f19, d76f86b, 5f22b63

2026-06-19v1.5.75
featureimprovement

UI-Build commit: c8d4ceb82

Release period: Late May–June 2026

New Features

Organization Statistics Dashboard

The organization dashboard has been redesigned to provide a consolidated view of production performance.

  • Review the live distribution of producing, idle, stopped, and preparation states.
  • Compare performance by day, week, month, custom date range, or shift.
  • Review machine and operator rankings for OEE and performance.
  • Monitor energy consumption, energy wastage, associated costs, and rated targets.
  • Review operational-impact indicators and daily energy trends.
  • Use the dashboard on desktop and mobile layouts.

Material and Work Scrap Tracking

Operators can distinguish between material scrap and work scrap when recording production quantities.

  • Enter scrap quantities when stopping or continuing an interval.
  • Review scrap values in Orders & Products and Order Analysis.
  • See total produced quantities calculated with the recorded scrap included.

Improvements

Assignment Planning

  • Search and filter machines more easily in the Assignment Planner.
  • Select which machines appear in the Gantt timeline.
  • Automatically arrange future assignments while leaving active production unchanged.
  • Review warnings before overlapping assignments are rearranged.

Saved Production Views

  • Choose the Hall Plan display version and zoom level.
  • Machine filters and sorting are restored when returning to the Machines page.
  • PDA assignment columns and sorting can be personalized.
2026-05-21
featureimprovement

Release period: May 11–21, 2026

Planning and Order Context

Shift Insights — May 21

Hall Plan and Order Analysis bring planned and actual setup, production, and cycle times together for clearer shift comparisons.

Version: v1.5.68-v1.5.72 UI-Build commits: a1e50d2, 3ff94a6, be97480

Order Tags — May 18

Tags can be added to orders and remain visible across orders, operations, and assignment planning to group related work.

Version: v1.5.63 UI-Build commit: d921bdd

Visual Planning — May 11

Assignment cards show neighbouring operations, link to the Assignment Gantt, and keep related work-order dates aligned when operation dates change.

Version: v1.5.66 UI-Build commits: ee5236f, 256a308

2026-05-20v1.5.70
featureimprovement

UI-Build commit: be97480f5

Release period: May 2026

New Features

Hall Plan V2

The redesigned Hall Plan provides a clearer live overview of production across the hall.

  • View OEE, availability, performance, produced pieces, machine times, and active orders.
  • Compare live and previous-shift information.
  • Select which production metrics appear on the display.
  • Navigate large halls through a compact, paginated machine view.

Assignment Gantt — Early Access

A timeline view is available from the Assignment Planner and platform navigation.

  • Review assignments across machines and time.
  • Identify scheduling overlaps and open the related order.
  • Use the initial read-only view to inspect the production schedule.

Pinned Navigation

Frequently used pages can be pinned in the side navigation and reordered using drag and drop. Each user's pinned navigation is saved for later sessions.

Improvements

Orders & Products

  • Added customer codes, operation sequence numbers, and planned cycle times.
  • Improved duration and deviation displays.
  • Added explanations for the most important production-performance metrics.

Data Acquisition (PDA)

  • Configure the information and ordering shown on assignment cards.
  • Choose between open assignments and time-window-based views.
  • Receive a warning before starting production when another assignment is already running.
2026-04-30v1.5.60
featureimprovement

UI-Build commit: ad93cfa01

Release period: March–April 2026

New Features

User Permissions Editor

Administrators can manage page and machine access from the Admin Panel.

  • Open a user record and select Edit Permissions.
  • Select the platform pages and machines the user can access.
  • Save the changes so they apply to the user's next session.

Chat History

The AI assistant has a dedicated page under Workspace → Chat History.

  • Reopen saved conversations.
  • Star, rename, or delete conversations.
  • Review answers in the documentation context from which the conversation started.

Improvements

Orders & Products

The order table includes additional planning and production fields:

  • Customer and priority
  • Planned and actual durations
  • Average cycle time
  • Cycle-time and setup-time deviation
  • Production interval count

Column visibility preferences are saved for later sessions.

Assignment Planner

  • Search the unassigned operations queue by order, product, or operation.
  • Filter by order tags and priority.
  • Review and edit operation or assignment notes from the planner.

ERP Upload Planner

  • Import order tags with order data.
  • Choose standard or industry-minute interpretation for time fields.
  • Limit an import to orders that already have a machine assignment.
  • Review upload progress and schedule warnings before confirmation.

Data Acquisition (PDA)

  • Operation sequence numbers appear on job chips.
  • Starting or stopping production updates the related order status.
  • An over-production prompt can help operators review order completion.
  • Operation and assignment notes are available from the PDA page.

AI Chat Sidebar

The assistant can provide documentation-based guidance about the current page, available actions, workflows, and settings.

Page and machine availability depends on the permissions assigned to the user.

2026-04-29
featureimprovement

Release period: April 1–29, 2026

Access, Automation, and AI Workspace

Access Controls — April 29

Administrators can control the pages and machines available to each user and provide clear guidance when additional access is required.

Version: v1.5.65 UI-Build commit: 505c8e3

Workflow Automation — April 26

The Automator lets teams create rules for production conditions, notify selected people, and track resulting events through resolution.

Version: v1.5.61-v1.5.62 UI-Build commit: 2e8ecf4

AI Workspace — April 8

Users can start and resume AI conversations, open supporting sources, and see when a conversation restart no longer includes earlier context.

Version: v1.5.54 UI-Build commit: 8914806

Managed Imports — April 1

ERP uploads can be reviewed before confirmation, with progress, proposed order changes, row totals, and source-file corrections available in the preview.

Version: v1.5.53 UI-Build commits: 08012c6, e9d9db4

2026-03-30
featureimprovement

Release period: March 10–30, 2026

Production and Machine Analysis

Accurate Cycles — March 30

Cycle-time analysis handles open production periods more appropriately, making live order performance easier to compare with completed work.

Version: v1.5.51 UI-Build commit: 1ce17be

OPC Insights — March 22

Machine Details provides a view-only history of available machine signals to support troubleshooting of stops and unexpected behaviour.

Version: v1.5.50 UI-Build commits: d9e4fb2, d0ccfda

Assignment Discovery — March 17

Planners can search and page through unassigned operations to find the required work before placing it on a machine.

Version: v1.5.48 UI-Build commits: d0c5ab6, b988ffe

Machine Setup — March 10

Guided machine configuration organizes master data, assignment settings, energy monitoring, and updates into clear sections.

Version: v1.5.47 UI-Build commits: 863a6f3, fb5f32b

2026-02-11
featureimprovement

Release period: January 4–February 11, 2026

Productivity and Production Foundations

Status Clarity — February 11

Consistent statuses across assignments, work orders, and orders make planned, running, completed, and cancelled production work easier to understand.

Version: v1.5.44 UI-Build commit: 1ce17be

Modern Ticket Board — February 9

Kanban provides searchable ticket columns, due dates, and editable localized tags for clearer team coordination.

Version: v1.5.40-v1.5.41 UI-Build commits: d54d532, 618424c, 0391a0f

Spreadsheet Imports — January 31

Administrators can import order data from CSV and XLSX files with example files and column-matching guidance.

Version: v1.5.37 UI-Build commit: e623d88

Faster PDA Flow — January 31

PDA supports quicker product and order search, live-order creation, machine assignment, and more reliable touch controls.

Version: v1.5.37-v1.5.38 UI-Build commits: c08f0ce, 075990a, e623d88, 5cba192

Product Details — January 18

Products can define a production unit, such as pieces, kilograms, or metres, which remains visible across administration, order views, and analysis.

Version: v1.5.35 UI-Build commit: 27e4f72

Saved Preferences — January 18

Personal display preferences, including the machine overview view, are retained between sessions.

Version: v1.5.35 UI-Build commit: 7dd0456

Connected Tickets — January 18

Tickets can be created from PDA, connected to orders, supplemented with files, and linked to relevant Knowledge Base content.

Version: v1.5.34-v1.5.35 UI-Build commits: 4bc0986, e42e780, 27e4f72, 2e1faa7

Energy Visibility — January 10

Energy use appears on machine cards, shift summaries, Machine Details, and historical charts alongside production information.

Version: v1.5.34 UI-Build commit: 2cba338

Machine Features — January 7

Administrators can configure the monitoring and production functions available for each machine in the Admin Panel.

Version: v1.5.33 UI-Build commits: 151cf56, 2d7ea4c, 89b1b00

Smarter Alerts — January 4

Alert rules support clear names, descriptions, localized labels, and conditions that make triggered notifications easier to understand.

Version: v1.5.32 UI-Build commit: a207a36