What's new in Factbird?

Operator View
- In the Create New Batch dialog in the Operator View, product item numbers are now visible in the product dropdown menu.
Connected Operations
- Batch event triggers in Activities can now be configured using product-specific and packaging-specific conditions.

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Improvements

Connected Operations
- A “Product name” column has been added to the Activity export file in Reporting.

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Bug fixes

Fixed a bug in the shift calendar where scrolling through weeks would cause the calendar to display shifts that should not be there.
Fixed a bug in the shift calendar where a shift that spans across two weeks (e.g., from Sunday to Monday) would be incorrectly shown in the second week.

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December 4, 2025

v1.551.16-v1.559.33

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New features

Production Insights
- New KPI: "Mean time between stoppages" has been added.

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Improvements

Production Insights
- Translation management for stop cause category names has been added.
Connected Operations
- Users can now enable or disable activity templates. Disabled activities do not fire triggers, but they remain visible in the list, greyed out. They can be re-enabled at any time, which automatically restores all original behavior.
- The Activity list now includes a Trigger column.

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Bug fixes

Fixed a bug where bulk editing of products would fail if a control recipe was edited across more than one product at a time.
Fixed a bug in Operator View where registering ongoing stops would sometimes result in the stop being split.

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November 27, 2025

v1.548.13-v1.551.16

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New features

Improvements

Production Insights
- Reduced input delay when typing a search string in the Line Overview.
- You can now click on sensor override labels to open the editing dialog in the SENSORS tab of a line.
Connected Operations
- Improved the performance of certain Activities DB queries.

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Bug fixes

Fixed a bug where closing the Manual Counter dialog in the Multi Line Operator View redirected the user to the Single Line View.
Fixed a bug in Operator View where closing the Edit Registration dialog in the Stop Registration view would return the user to the main view.

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November 24, 2025

v1.548.13

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New features

Operator View
- Multi-line management in Operator View: Users can now select a directory to view and monitor multiple production lines simultaneously in a single view.

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Improvements

Added automatic draft saving for activity templates to prevent accidental loss of work. When creating or editing an activity template, your changes are now automatically saved to your browser's local storage. If you accidentally close your browser, navigate away, or your session ends unexpectedly, your work won't be lost.
When “Current shift” is selected in Operator View, a production meter chart is now displayed on the main view. The stop registration chart remains accessible through the stop registration dialog, which opens when clicking the Stop Notification banner.

Bug fixes

Fixed a bug where all peripherals were not shown in the Organization Hierarchy dialog when adding sensors.
Fixed the OEE percentage showing through the hierarchy dropdown.
Fixed a bug where a long template with an instructions field would jump to the middle of the template.
Stop descriptions now appear in tooltips when hovering over registered stops in Operator View.

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November 18, 2025

v1.543.9

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New features

Operator View
- Manual Counter and OEE are now available in the Operator View.
- Batch comments are now visible in the Operator View. Users can view comments for the running batch by clicking the info icon on the batch card, and the comments also appear in the Next batch list dialog.

Improvements

GraphQL API
- Documentation clarifies which type of ID is expected by archivePeripheral and peripheralByID.
Other
- Added the ability to edit registration in the multi-select dialog in Operator View.
- Administration page: Moved the Add button to the bottom-right corner to prevent it from covering page navigation.
- Fixed a regression that caused peripherals without descriptions, when created through the API, to produce errors.

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Bug fixes

Organization Hierarchy: Fixed a bug where, after moving a Node to a Directory, the Node would disappear.
Fixed a bug where the OEE card wasn't shown in the Operator View if no main OEE type was configured for the Line. The application now defaults to showing OEE1 if no main type is set.
Fixed a bug where the hourly count displayed incorrect stop durations in some time zones.
Fixed a bug where the Operator View and Batch tab displayed different values for batch ETC.
Activities: Fixed a bug where the Batch filter remained stuck in the loading state after selecting a location.
Fixed a bug where the indices argument was ignored for device.sensors and device.peripherals resolvers.
Fixed a bug in the Operator View where starting a batch would start the first batch in the list instead of the batch selected by the user.

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October 28, 2025

v1.530.6

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New features

Improvements

Factory overview
- OEE calculation with speed loss and scrap loss - The OEE displayed on the organization page also known as the factory overview now includes speed loss and scrap loss of the lines that have its inclusion enabled in their OEE settings.
💡 Note to customers
You might see a directory or a line with OEE higher than 100% if the associated line(s) are incorrectly configured with a validated and expected speed below the speed the line actually runs at. Please increase the expected and validated speed appropriately in the main sensor settings of the line. This change will only affect how future data is displayed so it might take some time until the OEE on the factory overview falls to a correct value depending on the selected time period. If you need to adjust the speeds retrospectively to get more accurate reporting data you can set the speeds on a batch as a workaround described in this article.
Andon
- Added a timezone selector to the Andon shift. This is done to fix an issue where Daylight Saving Time would cause the entire schedule to shift one hour. Making the schedule aware of timezones allows it to take Daylight Saving Time into account when calculating shifts.
- Show descriptive error message when andon role deletion fails.
Sensor setting
- Show descriptive helper text on Main Sensor Settings dialog, if the Update button is disabled.
Support
- Added support for Portuguese language.

Bug fixes

Fixed an issue where it was not possible to create Action plans or switch between line nodes if you navigated to a line through Organization.
Only users with Manage Activities permission can navigate to template editing from Activity log.
Fix batch card progress bar showing through the hierarchy dropdown on Operator View.
Fixes an issue where duplicating activities would throw an error.
'Produced this week' and 'Produced since yesterday' in the Line Overview are no longer shown with decimals.
Fixes an issue where the "Recent shifts" selector would select the wrong time range if the shift schedule had different timezone than the user.
Fix a case where overrides were not applied correctly if the time-range was fully covered by overrides.
Fixes uptime KPI calculation bug where ongoing shifts with future end times would show inflated uptime values.

October 17, 2025

v1.524.0

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New features

Factory overview
- Users can now select between OEE1, OEE2, OEE3 and TCU to be shown on the line and directory cards visible in the factory overview. The card settings are available to default super users from the three dot menu in the top right corner of the factory overview.

Improvements

Manual process line
- Comments and initials are now shown when you hover over a registered stop in Register Stops on a Manual Process line.

Bug fixes

Line
- Fixed a bug where Line schedule configured from Sunday to Monday of the next week would not appear for some timezones.
- Enabled zooming in on the chart of manual lines (lines with manually entered downtime).
Organization hierarchy
- Fixed a bug where hierarchy was not fully loaded on organization admin page.
- Fixed a bug where a node could not be deleted immediately after moving the last child node out of it.
Activities
- Activity report for stop registration triggered activities now shows comment and initials for the stop registration.
- Fix eda bug where activities would have blank fields when using the export function.
Other
- Fixed a bug where stop selection in the Operator View would break if the "subtract cycle time" option is on.
- Fixed a bug where users would not show up in ‘Add User Dialog’ if name contained trailing whitespace. User names are now trimmed for trailing or leading whitespace before storing them.
- Fixed a bug where a missing permissions tooltip would be displayed when adding/editing StopCauseCategories.
- Fixed a bug where it was not possible to update a "Measurement" type sensor because the button was disabled.
- Fixed a bug where current batch would be suggested as next batch during stop registration batch changeover.
- Fixed a bug where the ‘Create’ action plan dialog used the wrong url for the associated data.

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