Material Types offers a way to manage all of the different types of 3D printing material resources available at your business. Once a Material Type is added, the resource is now selectable throughout the platform.  Note that you will need to have Material Stocks for each Type Material Types are an integral part of the Authentise MES platform and can be found in: 1. Orders (CAD Line Items) 2. Printer Types 3. Post Processor Types 4. Material (Stock) Management Adding a New Material Type To get started, navigate to "Manage" > "Material Types". Currently supported 3D printing materials for your Service Bureau are listed here. To add a new Material Type, click the "Add Material" button.  The Authentise platform is integrated with Senvol, a comprehensive, up-to-date database of industrial additive manufacturing machines and materials. Locate your 3D printing material by selecting: 1. the manufacturer of the material, 2. the material/product made by the selected manufacturer. Once you have located your material, click the "Add" button to continue. NOTE: If you are unable to locate your material, click the "My material isn't listed" button.  You can now provide additional details about the 3D printing material that will be added to your bureau.  Additional details include: Description: a description of the material. For example, a user could describe the physical or chemical properties of the material or indicate the primary applications for the material. Color: a color can be assigned to the material. It is recommended to assign colors that closely resemble the final color of the printed material. This will make the material selection process simpler and more intuitive for end-users when creating an order. For example, blue ABS plastic will have a blue color code. Material Type: Every material must be assigned a Type. Current type options include 1) Base or 2) Support. Base is the primary 3D printing material the part will be manufactured with. Support is the secondary or supporting structure material that will be used in the manufacturing process. Units: the unit of measurement for the 3D printing material. Our current list of supported units is gram (g) , kilogram (kg), pound (lb), cubic millimeter (mm3), cubic centimeter (cm3), liter (l), milliliter (ml), cubic inch (in3). Note: If you select a weight/mass-based unit, we will also require a density value to be entered so that we can convert between volumes and masses on your behalf. Cost Per Unit: the cost per unit, based on the unit of measurement selected. Manufacturing Process: The classification of the material by production/process. For example, a metal alloy powder material would be classified under the Powder Bed Fusion process.  NOTE: a manufacturer or material name can't be modified if the material was selected from the Senvol list of 3D printing materials. To add a custom material name or manufacturer, click the "my material isn't listed" button when adding a new material. This will enable you to create a new material with a custom name and manufacturer but you cannot use the exact name that is used by the integrated list of materials. If you try, you will receive an error similar to the following. Please choose a slightly different name and proceed with your custom material. Additional documents and external resources can also be included. Additional Documents: additional supporting documentation such as Material Safety Data Sheets, Material Handling documentation, Warranty Information, etc.  External Datasheet URL:  A user can include a link to a web-hosted resource. NOTE: if a URL is saved in the External Datasheet URL field, this will affect where the line item's material Go link redirects to. Instead of redirecting to the specified Material Type's Authentise page, the user will be routed to the entered URL. Once all of the material information for the new material has been added, click "Save" to continue. Once saved, you will be routed back to the Material Types page where your newly added material is now visible in the list and a material optional available throughout the platform. Modifying Material Type Fields You may need to make updates or changes to data fields over time. Authentise MES enables a user to make modifications to most material type fields at any time, regardless of if the material is being referenced by a line item and/or the status of the line item that is making this reference. Fields that can be updated at any time regardless of reference include: • Name (if applicable) • Description • Manufacturer of a Material (if applicable) • Color • Cost per unit • Manufacturing process Click the "Save" button to save your changes. Once saved, you will be routed back to the main Materials Type page. Deleting a Material Type To delete a material, navigate to the material page. Click the drop-down button next to the Save button and select the Delete option to permanently delete the material. Once deleted, you will be routed back to the main Materials page. SPECIAL NOTE:  If the material is referenced ie. used by a CAD line item, you will receive an error when trying to delete the material type. In order to delete the material, ALL line items that reference this material must first be deleted. Once ALL line items with this material reference are deleted, the material type can be deleted.  An alternative to deletion of material types is archiving. Let us know if you would be interested in archiving material types. We would be happy to implement this functionality for you! Adding Material Stocks Adding a Material Stock, for a given Material Type at a given Location, signifies that this Material is able to be ordered from that Location. You can add Material Stocks from the Material Type page by clicking the(+) button or by adding a Stock on the Material Stocks Inventory Page (https://rapidfab.authentise.com/#/inventory/stocks). Note: you will want to add stock for every Location that will be offering a Material. Based on Stocks, a filter of available material types is applied to your Line Item forms. You will see this information (?) bubble's attempt to explain how this filtering of the Material's list is done. Note that tracking a Stock's actual levels is optional for bureaus that are not using our Material Management Module.  This streamlines your management in the case where you do not want to track your inventory manually within Authentise but you will still benefit from this filtering behavior. Material Stocks - Automatic Ordering Thresholds Authentise uses a concept of Automatic Ordering Thresholds to establish upper and lower bounds to help you manage the Ordering of additional Material to ensure your stock levels maintain a safe and comfortable level. When this capability is used, the system will trigger an email notification to users with the Manager role in your bureau directing them to order additional material. The system will also create an Action for those users until the stock level is increased about the alerting threshold. In addition to these automated reminders, these thresholds can be used to generate requests to your integrated ERP solution to automatically generate PO's (or to kickoff your internal ordering business processes). The setup of this capability is further explained below! Within each Material Stock you are able to set what we call an Automated Ordering Threshold. In practice, this will act as your Material alerting level.  1. Enable this option for this Stock: For each Stock that you would like inventory Alerts, check this box. 2. On Order Quantity: This field will calculate automatically if you are using our Material Management Module. It summarizes the expected material quantities of all Lots that you have On Order to this Location. 3. Minimum Material: This is the value that will trigger your automatic notification. If the amount of Material that is in your Inventory Lot Stock (ie. the amount of Material that is NOT in a batch) + your On Order Lot Stock falls below this level, a Notification will be sent to all users in the Bureau with the role Manager. We will also generate an Action for those users, which is viewable on their Home Page's My Actions component. 4. Maximum Material: This value can be used for ERP integrations to automate the size of PO that is necessary when Stock falls below the Minimum level. If you do not have an ERP Integration. we recommend you can put a reasonable value into this field.  

Material Management offers a powerful tool for tracking the life of a material as it flows through the various points of the production process including receiving, storage, initial use, reclamation of unused material, and all of the actions in between. Once activated on your Authentise MES license, your users will be able to: • Receive material into your factory in the form of Lots. These are managed to assist your supply chain team in monitoring and controlling the overall inventory of the factory. • Create and manage Batches of material to be used to produce parts within your facility. • Link parts and runs that utilize a specific material batch, automatically. • Review genealogy graphs that illustrate the life of a batch by displaying events that occurred on a batch. This includes print events, blends, splits, sieves, tests, and any child batches that are created.  • Utilize our mobile QR app to record the flow of material through the production process using automatically generated QR codes for both your materials and printers. For more information, please check out our Step by Step Guide! We are actively working with our customers to improve the Authentise MES platform every single day. Have questions, comments, or would like to find out more about how the Authentise system can help you manage your additive operations? Contact us today at info@authentise.com!

Welcome to the user guide for Authentise’s Material Management module. Material Management offers a powerful tool for tracking the life of a material as it flows through the various points of the production process including receiving, storage, initial use, reclamation of unused material, and all of the actions in between. In this guide, we will review what you need to know to get started with the module, how the different parts interact, and how you can get the most out of your materials. Prerequisites After activating the Material Management module for your AMES, you are almost ready to begin. The module builds off of the Material Types, Printer Types, and Printer inventory machines that you have in your bureau, so it is worth checking to ensure that they are accurate to your factory floor before beginning use of the Material Management’s Material Lots and Material Batches. You  will also want to ensure you are familiar with the Authentise QR Scanner and are able to access it from your mobile device. Note: Each of your Printer inventory machines will now have a link to the Printer's QR code. This can be found and printed on the Printer's details page. Clicking this link will generate a printable version of the QR code which should be affixed to its related printer and is used to reference that printer within the QR app. This page will also display a Batch Summary of the batch that is currently loaded into the machine. New Inventory Objects: Material Lots and Batches You will notice some changes to your navbar if you activate Material Management after using your AMES for some time. Within the Inventory section, you will notice two new options: Material Lots and Material Batches. These additional inventory objects are the core of the module and are what enable you to manage your broad inventory and production materials down to the individual unit. Material Lots Material Lots represent longer-term inventory objects which are received from a material supplier and may be managed separately from material that has been issued to your shop floor in the form of Batches. You can create a new lot within the Material Lots list page. When creating a Lot, you will specify multiple fields including Delivery Date, Delivery Date of Expiration, Delivery ID (Can be used for Internal Tracking or to capture a number from the delivery process) as well as the number of containers and the amount of material they contain. Note: A Material Lot can contain a maximum of 500 containers. Add a Material Lot After creating your new lot, you are able to navigate to Lot Details to find key management information for the lot. 1. Print Material Lot Container QR Codes 2. Upload additional documents (such as initial certificates of conformance or testing results) 3. Lot Details and notes 4. Review the list of Material Lot Containers 5. See a list of Initial Batches which were created from this Lot Lot Details Clicking the Print Containers QR Codes link will navigate you to a list of printable QR Codes for each Container within the Material Lot. These QR codes are used with the Authentise QR App to track the material as it is issued into a Batch and throughout its lifespan on the shop floor. Carefully affix a single QR code to each container of the newly created Lot and your Authentise receiving process is complete. You will next use these QR codes when you are creating an Initial Batch for use on your Shop floor.  Material Batches Material Batches represent usable quantities of material that have been issued to the shop floor for use. They are created from Material Lots using the Batch Creation process and they are able to receive a number of Batch Actions: Load into Machine, Split, Blend, Sieve, Treatment, Relocate, Test, and Scrap. These actions are automatically tracked by Authentise to create a digital history of each Material Batch as it flows through the production process. These actions are administered using a combination of our QR app and QR codes which are affixed to Material Lot containers or generated during the lifespan of the Material Batch. Creating a Batch To create a batch, first, ensure your Material Lot Containers have their QR codes affixed. Next, load the Authentise QR Scanner on your handheld device and scan one of the container's QR codes. The application will recognize the container, indicate the 8 digit container ID (also on the container's QR Label) for verification, and offer you to scan additional containers or to proceed. At this point, you will determine how much material you are issuing to the shop floor, in the form of a Batch. 1. Continue to scan additional containers from the same lot until you are satisfied with the quantity of material for the Batch you plan to create.  2. Select Use Amount Scanned when you are satisfied and this will create your new Batch. You have now created an Initial Batch which can be used by your shop to produce parts. The Initial Batch represents the starting point for the Geneology of this material. The Batch has also been added to the Material Batches List and will have now have a Batch Details page which is able to be found from the Material Batches list.  After creating your new Batch, you are able to navigate to Batch Details to find key management information for the Batch. 1. View the Batch Geneaology Graph 2. Upload additional documents (such as initial certificates of conformance or testing results) 3. Review the Batch Traceability Report or Export a .docx version of the Report 4. Review Batch Details and Notes (Not pictured: Re-containerize material that is currently loose.) 5. Miscellaneous Lot and Material Details 6. See a list of containers for the batch 7. Not Pictured: When requested via Batch Actions, you can see and record test results for the batch. 8. Not Pictured: When your batch is loaded into a Printer, a Printer Details box will also be visible on this page.  Material Batches List and Batch Details To use your batch, you need to begin performing Batch Actions on the batch. These are avaialble within the QR App by scanning the Batches' QR code or searching for the Batch within the QR App with the Batches' 8 digit Batch ID. The Batch Actions page offers eight actions that you can perform: 1. Split 2. Blend 3. Scrap 4. Sieve 5. Treatment 6. Relocate 7. Test 8. Load Machine Batch Actions By clicking each button, the app will walk you through how to perform each action. Loading a machine is the next step for this guide, so select Load Machine and follow the prompts. Load Machine from Material Batch Finally, to complete a print job, you will need to use the QR App to scan the Printer's QR Code and select Complete Print Job. Here, you will have the option to record the material you are removing from the build chamber, or material that makes up the printed object. By clicking save, you have successfully finished your build! Complete Print Job 1. If you choose the first option of Unloading Reclaimed Material, a new Batch will be created with Usage Cycle: 1. It will be displayed on the Genealogy View with a Light Grey Box. 2. If you choose the second option of Recording the Build amount, a new Batch will be created and will be displayed on the Genealogy View with a Dark Grey Box. Linking Runs/Pieces to Material Batches Authentise will automatically link a Run (and the Pieces in that Run) to the batch that is currently loaded into a Machine at the point in time that a Run is started (ie. the Run Status moves from Queued to In Progress). This link allows for the traceability from Run/Piece <> Material Batch. It also allows you to trace through a Material Batch to the full Genealogy of that Batch of Material.  Runs Page Link Pieces Page Link