November 2022

I feel like I’ve only just recovered after an extremely busy month punctuated by Formnext and Thanksgiving (always a big deal in this house 🦃). Formnext was incredibly busy. Thank you for those that popped by, and sorry if I missed you. We had an astounding amount of interest, mostly thanks to our incredible Rube Goldberg machine. If you didn’t manage to get a go, make sure to see us at one of our next shows – or latest at AMUG.

It's not all talk and eating though. In the background, the tech team has been killing it, delivering a serious upgrade to our scheduling system in record time.

The key driver for this change are clients that are taking Authentise into serious production. That means respecting the nuances of a shop floor, like shifts. Acknowledging that new builds or production processes won’t be started when people aren’t in the building, this makes the schedule forecast much more reliable. There are lots of nuances in labour scheduling, and I’m sure we didn’t catch them all (for example, providing for special holidays), but the fact that users can now set work times and define how long labour needs to be present at the work station is a major step towards more accurate scheduling.

Of course, the latter needs to be editable in an order. Fortunately, users already get the option of defining labour time separately from workstation time at the line-item level. We’re now also using those times to define the schedule too. If you have a part that you know will take less time to process than usual, then you can now quote for that saving and make sure it’s recorded in the schedule. 

I love seeing pragmatic, real world improvements happening on the system, guided by clients. If you want to find out more about those kinds of changes, and the next ones coming – please get in touch.  

When I write to you next it will be close to new year so if you’re into that type of thing and I don’t speak with you before: Happy Holidays 🎅❄️🎄

All the best,