What’s new in Opcenter Execution MDD 2410

Reduced total cost of ownership and expanded portfolio integration

Summary

Opcenter™ Execution Medical Device and Diagnostics (OC EX MDD) software serves as the foundation for leading global manufacturers and product innovators that want to enable rapid change, lean manufacturing, consistent quality output, rapid new product introduction (NPI) and higher profit margins.

Integrated with enterprise resource planning (ERP), product lifecycle management (PLM), supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM) and the shop floor, Opcenter EX MDD completes the technology infrastructure for manufacturing. Solutions are architected for global use, enabling worldwide visibility for real-time control and mission-critical operations.

Opcenter EX MDD 2410 along with the Mendix™ low-code platform, which is part of the Siemens Xcelerator business platform of software, hardware and services, delivers new enhancements to improve an application’s capabilities and user experience. Using Mendix low-code, you can access a development framework and a community of prebuilt marketplace components to easily create and deliver powerful, optimized and role-based apps.

Containerized deployments on Amazon web services (AWS) are now supported, to provide greater flexibility in choosing a cloud vendor. Digital thread integration with Teamcenter Quality enables a closed-loop quality model to simplify quality planning and execution.

Advancements in single sign-on allow third party application to embed the Opcenter EX MDD portal with a seamless user experience. Our adoption of an open-source database reduces the cost of ownership of the application.

Benefits

• Expanded deployment and scalability on cloud
• Provide greatly enhanced role-based user experience
• Digital thread portfolio integration
• Improved single sign-on across applications
• Reduced total cost of ownership with an open-source database

Capabilities

Operational view : Mendix module

• Expands support for electronic signatures to all container transactions used on the module
• Enables mobile barcode scanning for text editable fields such as container, reason, lot number and product
• Supports object data types and row column layout when collecting data
• Provides the ability to print the device history record (DHR) report as a PDF
• Adds a revisioned object control
• Updated user experience styling

Teamcenter Quality – MES integration

• Delivers touchpoints between Teamcenter Quality and Opcenter Execution Core using the active integration gateway (AIG)
  • Teamcenter Quality to MES
    • Inspection definition download via bill of process (BOP) to electronic procedures for manual inspection
      • Data collections mapped to a task in the electronic procedure
    • Inspection definition download via BOP to the spec (via transaction map) for automated inspection
      • Data collection mapped to the data collection transaction map on the spec
  • MES to Teamcenter Quality
    • Escalate a production nonconformance from Opcenter into a Teamcenter Quality issue
• For more details, please see the readme information for the Opcenter Connect Integration for Teamcenter (CN4T) 2410 release

Opcenter Intra Plant logistics integration

• Enhances solution to support integration with Opcenter Execution Core without electronics specific data
• Detects if the electronics workspace is installed
• Calls REST API transactions that do not contain electronics fields

Containerization enhancements

• Delivers additional support of the following containerized deployment options:
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) with Microsoft SQL Server running in a virtual machine (VM) on AWS
  • Microsoft Azure with Oracle running in a VM on Azure

Single sign-on enhancements

• Enables single sign-on when embedding the portal within a third-party application, like supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)
• Can also directly open a specific page in the portal via a URL and pass in contextual information to that page
  • Example: open electronic procedures page and pass in the name of the container

RESTful API enhancements

• Introduces the ability to download files from the shop floor endpoint
  • Allows users to retrieve documents in nonconformances via the REST API
• Allows for configuring and applying filter tags through a new parameter
• Adds support for specifying the ListAction attribute in the REST API payload, providing better control over data management operations
• Upgrades the underlying framework from .NET 6 to .NET 8, offering improved performance, security, and compatibility

Open-source database support – technical preview

• Introduces support of an open-source database, PostgreSQL
• Supported as a technical preview
• Reduces the cost of ownership of adopting an application database

Deprecation of Crystal Reports

• Deprecates the following components associated with Crystal Reports 2016, which reaches end of life on December 31, 2024
  • Dashboards
    • Process health dashboard
    • Production dashboard
    • Quality management dashboard
  • Reports
    • Event trend report (Crystal Reports version)
    • Nonconformance report
  • Portal Studio
    • Crystal Report viewer control (report object control)
    • Crystal Report templates

Security

• Enhances password encryption
• Upgrades jQuery UI component to 1.13.2
• Eliminates cross-site scripting vulnerabilities

Additional enhancements

Updates the styling of several portal controls, including:

• Active state on buttons
• Toast notifications (application messages)
• Labels on disabled fields
• Asterisk on required fields

Also:

• Introduces ability to tab into the command bar on portal pages
• Enhances transaction trace logging to configure an option to only log errors, not successful transactions when trace logging is enabled

Technology enhancements

• Chrome 127+
• Edge Chromium 127+
• TinyMCE 6.8.3
• Microsoft .NET 8.0.5
• Xerces 3.2.3