February 2021

Short month this time but no less effective. That may have something to do with the feeling of spring in the air: We got up to 13C today in the UK 🌞 and the Gov just announced that we may even be let out of our houses before the summer starts. Plus, Authentise is now officially a cashflow positive company, which means I’m no longer as distracted trying to make sure everybody gets paid. We’re very excited that we’ve built a value proposition that resonates so strongly and sustainably with our partners. It’s a big deal for us.

That doesn’t mean that we’re resting. Not for one minute. This month we released a huge feature that takes us a huge step closer to a fully ISO compliant quality system: Thresholds.

Thresholds are an add on to the work instruction settings. Thresholds you to check the responses from operators to questions you ask, such as: “Check the Powder Level”. Thresholds are not just tolerance checks – they allow much more control: They can if the answers are within a range, are greater than, include X text, and give you many more options beside depending on whether the request is for a number or text.

When an action is assigned operators get an email and the tasks appear on the dashboard when they log in to the system. Completing a task is just as easy. Operators simply log in and click on the task in either the dashboard or the full task list, to be taken to the specific section and task.

This is the first step in a series of innovations that we hope will change the way operators interact with our system and manufacturing as a whole – independent resources able to quickly prioritize, switch context and execute. Next steps would include expanding the Actions idea into the QR app, and add more actions.

The push for this actually came from our team: Far, our CTO, pushed for this in particular. Amazing to see how the team is developing its own product dynamic. Really excited to see what comes next.

The other change is along the lines of providing more context for folks: we’re now displaying renders of builds, including more information about them, and linking the location of the build directly with the part details by assigning ID’s to each:

This change was long overdue, and some way to go: 3D renders are next. But with a team like this, it can’t be long in coming, but not month. Next month I already have a range of new features to tell you about – and I can’t wait.

If you can’t either, I suggest you join the first live webinar arranged by our new sales star, Derek Ellis. Click here to register and join live on February 11th at 11 am PST, or view the recording later.

See you there!