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February 17, 2026
February 17, 2026

v1.625.13

v1.625.13

New features

Improvements

  • Visually improved the hierarchy selector by adding icons and indicating interaction by a "pointer" hover cursor.
  • Upgrade AI generated activities to a smarter model.

Bug fixes

  • Due dates of calendar-based maintenance work orders now correctly updates after a work order is completed.
  • Fixes a bug where selecting the first of a weekday of the month in an activity trigger would not be saved properly.

February 12, 2026
February 12, 2026

v1.620.11

v1.620.11

New features

Improvements

  • Production Insights
    • Upgrade Factbird Assistant to a smarter model

Bug fixes

  • Line Overview now shows an offline status for stopped lines when no data has been received for more than 5 minutes, unifying the status icon logic with the Administration page.
  • Fixed an issue where batch information was not displayed in the Multi-line Operator View even though a batch was running on the line.
  • Fixed a bug where updating an activity would enable all triggers, even if they had been previously disabled.

February 1, 2026
February 1, 2026

v1.601.1

New features

Improvements

  • Production Insights
    • Factory Overview OEE cards now show batch estimated time of completion.
    • Allow pasting dates from Excel into the batches table.
  • Connected Operations
    • Activity template version history can be viewed on ManageActivities tab.
  • Operator View
    • Lines are now sorted by name in the Multi-line View.

Bug fixes

  • Operator View
    • Fixes a bug where users could not perform a split in the Operator View when Stop registration activities contained required derived number fields.
    • Prevent submitting split stop registration activities multiple times.
  • Fix a case where "Subtract cycle time from stops" was not working if there were no batches.
  • Fixes an issue where the activities reporting chart would not show, if no activities in the list had validation enabled.

January 23, 2026
January 23, 2026

v1.591.0

New features

Improvements

  • Production Insights
    • Batch barcode parsing (GS1) from events now extracts production quantity.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an internal error visible after pressing "Update firmware version" on the devices page in the administration section.
  • Made all peripherals show up in the autocomplete dropdown when selecting sensors to attach to a camera.
  • Fixed a bug where Operator View crashed when fixed time selection was applied
  • Fixed an issue where devices could sometimes not be deleted from Administration.
  • Fixed a bug where the OEE card in Operator View displayed the wrong time selection.
  • Cleared the stop analytics filter when navigating to a different Line to reset the Pareto view.

January 19, 2026
January 19, 2026

v1.587.4

New features

Platform

  • The API token management feature is live under administration → system. You will now be able to see, create, and delete your API tokens.

Improvements

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue where a Batch Import XML file would get rejected if one of the production lines in the file does not exist. Now non-existent lines are just skipped
  • Time formatting on the "select shifts" tab of the time picker component now follows the user's selected language
  • Fixed a bug where registered stop tooltips didn't disappear after selecting the stop on Operator View.
  • Fixed a bug where if the first shift of the day started before 1 am, then the batch dashboard displayed yesterday's first shift.
  • Fixed an issue causing activities export to timeout for larger time ranges.
  • Fixed a bug where the Submit button on an activity was disabled, when the last field edited was the initials.
  • Restores the infinite scroll functionality of the sensor and lines overview page to see all search results.

January 12, 2026
January 12, 2026

v1.581.7

New features

Connected Operations

  • "No validation" bar in the Activities Reporting bar chart.

Improvements

Connected Operations

  • The line status cause and duration now account for stop time that has been registered.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where activities passing status would default to failing even though no validation rules were set. Applies to activities table and activities exporting.
  • Andon comment area will display the character limit.
  • Fixed a bug where manual scrap from batches would be too high.
  • Fixed a bug where entering manual scrap on a batch could result in wrong scrap loss and scrap KPI values

January 6, 2026
January 6, 2026

v1.578.24

v1.578.24

New features

Improvements

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue where OEE numbers would be wrong if there were batches that were not fully contained in your selected time range.

December 30, 2025
December 30, 2025

v1.575.23

v1.575.23

New features

Improvements

  • Production Insights
    • AI Assistant: Replace the default prompt with help text on howto use the Assistant

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue where activities were not being created

December 17, 2025
December 17, 2025

v1.572.4

New features

  • Connected Operations
    • You can now view the version history of your activity templates

Improvements

Bug fixes

December 11, 2025
December 11, 2025

v1.565.0

New features

Improvements

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug where the multi-line view in Operator View was not refreshing.

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