There are two new settings in the settings editor.
Plus Powers with Standard Shapes: This is used to indicate that the lab want to operate so that if a standard shape or a drawing is selected for a plus power then this can be set to signify that the user wants an optimised lens. You can still tick the finished checkbox to force the lens to be taken from finished.
Surface Both is one lens is surfaced. This is used to indicate that the lab will operate by surfacing both lenses, this is generally to ensure coating, transitions colour matching and base curves agree.
Both of these are not applicable if the customer record indicates that the customer prefers price over cosmetic.
There is also a refinement to the prefer 65mm setting so that it takes into account any potential saving from using a 55mm or 60mm finished lens. The tendency will be that low plus powers will go to a 65mm but that higher powers will go to a lower diameter.
It is becoming common to use Annapurna in labs who are running Nidek, Lab control, Essibox and so Annapurna has to feed files into all of these programs. In order to do this, a second output folder for the glazing files has been added.
View Job allowed the status of an order to be updated. Since then the tracking module has been added (on production panel) so this has made this outdated. Accordingly, it has been modified to show a list of potential tracking sections in the same manner as the tracking module.
Sometime it happens that unrealistic wanted dates are asked for. Let's suppose the target for the job is 3 days. If a wanted date of 2 days is asked for then this is probably possible but the order entry operator possibly should know this in order to set up the process to speed up production on this job. If a wanted date of 4 days is asked for then there is not a need for any special action.
In our example above, if a wanted date of 1 day is asked for then it is unlikely that this is possible so order entry should not allow this (there is nothing to stop the wanted date being typed into special instructions).
Annapurna 2.17 has updates to handle this. There are the following scenarios.
Wanted date greater than or equal to the target date - No action.
Wanted date less than the target date - An minimum lab date is calculated which is the realistic date that the lab could achieve by making the job urgent. The following conversion is applied
Target Days Minimum Days
0 0
1 0
2 1
3 2
4 2
5 3
6 4
7 4
8 5
9 6
10 6
If the wanted date is greater or equal to the minimum date then the job is accepted with a warning to the operator.
If the wanted date is less than the minimum date then the job is not accepted. There is also another fudge in that the browser will still allow wanted dates to be added without this test.
Just a small update but something added to prevent edge thicknesses being entered that are less than the designated edge thickness less 0.3 for the frame type.
So if it is a supra(groove) frame and the designated edge thickness is 2.0 mm then a user requested edge thickness cannot be below 1.7.
There is an exception and the requested edge thickness cannot be below the designated edge thickness for metal frames.
The reject program has been updated so that a machine can be recorded against the reject. You can add your own list of machine names and these are reported on in the reject report so that patterns can be identified.
A MEI edger (with the TBA) has been successfully connected into the VCAGlazer program. As well as the regular communication of shape and powers, a table has been added to allow engraving designs to be picked up and recognised and for powers to be verified. The MEI is impressive and when running in this mode then it allows for fast throughput.
