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Key features included:
Release 4.1.0:
New plug-in API interface to allow for an external precedence graph management
Declare up to 64 cumulative resource constraints (like workstation length or surface, required minimum shelf space at a workstation, maximum number of tools in use, other specific resource costs...)
Genetic Optimization algorithm enhancements for a scalability from 4 up to 16 processors (depending on data and optimization problem)
Storage of assembly data and all changes into Optimal Design's Versioned Database, offering advanced Change Managament (tracking and control by author) especially in large or corporate multi-user operating environments
Flexible data entry via flat files (partial loads), assembly project storage and retrieval from SQL compliant databases (ODBC connectors), partial data loads and selective data exports via XML-like schemas
Release 4.0.0:
Declare constraints for operations that can drift beyond the current workstation to the next or several next workstations
Declare constraints for operations that are mutually incompatible, on a given or any workstation or zone
Maximum limits expanded to address 5000 elementary tasks/operations
Release 3.9.0 and before:
Declare constraints for operations that require several operators and specific positions
Define multi-variants products where all variants do not necessarily include or require all operations from all variants
Define up to 16 customizable work positions to satisfy ergonomic constraints. 7 positions are pre-defined (Front, Rear, Left, Right, Tilted, Inside)
Various GUI enhancements to ease execution of most needed tasks, namely in the precedence graph editor
Declare contraints for operations that needs to be linked together (executed on the same workstation) or fixed to a given workstation or zone of workstations
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