The Leader and Trailer options are now enabled for all Stitching algorithms. The main difference is that it is now enabled when Omitting Cuts to ensure there is a handle for downstream cutting operations that require it.

It works the same when Omitting Cuts, with one exception. If a Leader has been added as a handle, no trailer is required to provide a handle. As such, it won't be added.

The Diagnostics Multi-Axis Devices status screen has been improved. Rather than showing a count of the number of active Axes, it now displays a list of all the axes with their current positions.

In addition, the Function Key menu has changed to add an option to Disable All Axies.

The reported tolerance on CLDA when using EtherCat was off by the amount of die movement in one Closed Loop sample time.

This effect was already corrected for SERCOS but it was missed when EtherCat was implemented.

For stationary cuts, an improvement was made to account for the same issue in both SERCOS and EtherCat modes.

The conditions for testing for Done Items and Orders have been simplified.

Done Items and Done orders will now be checked for deletion at a minimum of once per minute or a maximum of once every 10 minutes. This time is dependent on the Auto Delete Done Orders time. The programmed time is used for the timer but is capped at the specified min and max limits above.

Done items and orders are also checked on a Power Cycle or every Memory Test.

On a normal coil tailout, while running, the current item that is reported is still the actual item that was running during the tailout. The item, order and material code have been validated against the coil and it makes sense to report the coil information and the item information all togther in one production record.

When an order it completed and there is no more production for a coil, the current item is no longer the last item that was running against that coil. It may be some item or order that will never be run with that coil. This resulted in some confusing conditions. It is especially confusing if there is scrap that gets reported because the Threadout process doesn't perfectly count the material down to the Shear to Encoder distance before the coil tails out.

To counter act this, we are now keeping track of the last produced item. It gets initialized during initialize queue and during every decrement part as parts are being produced. This item is used instead of the current item when a Threadout (Tailout) occurs, while the line is halted.