Shop Floor Connect / DNC Connect / 3rd Party Integration / API / MMR Service Release 2021.4

The new Shop Floor Connect, DNC Connect, 3rd Party Integration, API, MMR Service version 2021.4 is released and now available. Please look below for the enhancements and changes of the different modules.

The release is available for all customers with maintenance agreement and access to our Customer Information Center (CIC) for download (please create a release activity).

All customers who do not have access to our CIC platform and want to download the software over CIC have to require access over the following link. Please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you want the release on a data medium. Direct Siemens PLM Software customers can get the release from the GTAC download area.

This Shop Floor Connect Release 2021.4 supports all Teamcenter UA versions from 10.x up to the actual version Teamcenter 13.x.

Urgent Service notes

• DNC Connect only supports the actual NX versions who are under maintenance from Siemens.
• For customers who want to update on the Teamcenter 11.3 version or higher: From TC 11.3 and on, a new license verification will be done upon the creation of manufacturing objects like MEProcess, MEOP, MEWorkArea and their sub-types (including custom types). This check will be done on server side per Teamcenter policy and to ensure license verification. It will use two new feature keys: 1) mfg_planning_lite for verifying MEProcess, MEOP and their sub-types 2) mfg_plant_author for verifying MEWorkArea and its sub-types.
  This new license check will be done in addition to other license verification that exists today. If you don't find them in your Teamcenter 11.3 or higher license key please get in contact with Siemens PLM.
• The new UI Shop Floor Connect Active DNC drop support of Internet Explorer 11 and older! Please use Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome or the new Microsoft Edge Browser!
  
  

Shop Floor Connect /DNC Connect / 3rd Party Integration / API

Enhancements

• Upgrade internal Tomcat to version 9.0.52
• ActiveDNC (Resource Tracker): It's now possible to assign an assembled and measured tool to a tool trolley (PM0ToolTrolley).
• Failover: New administrative REST endpoint for switching SFC to 'online' or 'failover' mode.
• ActiveDNC / Failover: Additional verification with user and password via a local user database in failover mode, so that only authorized users can open and use ActiveDNC.

Bugfixes/Changes

• SFCCore: Additional log messages for "makeBackgroundSession"
• Failover V2: Optimization of the query from the cache database.
• Failover (Mode 1): Fixed file access issue in internal cache directory (file not found error).
• ActiveDNC: Minor bugfixes in the import dialog.
• ActiveDNC: Bugfix in ExternCall. The first callreturned "Query not found" although it is configured.
• ActiveDNC: Fixed a problem related to "Session.Timeout" which caused, among other things, the icons of the tools in the tool list not to be displayed after a new login.
• ActiveDNC: Workplace dependent SFCQuery_conf.xml is now also supported when opening an existing workpackage in shop floor programming.
• ActiveDNC: Workplace specific configuration files for UploadFile_Dialog and SFP_UploadFile_Dialog are now supported.
• ActiveDNC: Check the passed workstation ID and search name for externCall and return an error message if they were not found.
• ActiveDNC: If externalCall (executing the search from an external system) was called several times, the name of the first loaded workpackage was always displayed in the header. This display is now updated with the newly loaded workpackage information.
  
  

MMR Service

Enhancements

• Support of Tool master data revisions.
• It's now possible to define overwrites of tool master data custom attributes in a tool plan (Available since MMR 5.1.1).
  
  

MI-Server

Enhancements

• Upgrade internal Tomcat to version 9.0.52
• WuTCOM: New configuration key "SkipFlushSerialInputBuffer" to skip flushing input buffer of WuT COMServer before start receiving data from machine.

Subject to change without notice.

Shop Floor Connect / DNC Connect / 3rd Party Integration / API - Release 2021.3

The new Shop Floor Connect, DNC Connect, 3rd Party Integration, API, MMR Service version 2021.3 is released and now available. Please look below for the enhancements and changes of the different modules.

The release is available for all customers with maintenance agreement and access to our Customer Information Center (CIC) for download (please create a release activity).

All customers who do not have access to our CIC platform and want to download the software over CIC have to require access over the following link. Please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you want the release on a data medium. Direct Siemens PLM Software customers can get the release from the GTAC download area.

This Shop Floor Connect Release 2021.3 supports all Teamcenter UA versions from 10.x up to the actual version Teamcenter 13.1.

Urgent Service notes

• DNC Connect only supports the actual NX versions who are under maintenance from Siemens.

• For customers who want to update on the Teamcenter 11.3 version or higher: From TC 11.3 and on, a new license verification will be done upon the creation of manufacturing objects like MEProcess, MEOP, MEWorkArea and their sub-types (including custom types). This check will be done on server side per Teamcenter policy and to ensure license verification. It will use two new feature keys: 1) mfg_planning_lite for verifying MEProcess, MEOP and their sub-types 2) mfg_plant_author for verifying MEWorkArea and its sub-types.

• This new license check will be done in addition to other license verification that exists today. If you don't find them in your Teamcenter 11.3 or higher license key please get in contact with Siemens PLM.

• The new UI Shop Floor Connect Active DNC drop support of Internet Explorer 11 and older! Please use Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome or the new Microsoft Edge Browser!

   

Shop Floor Connect / DNC Connect / 3rd Party Integration / API

Enhancements

• Upgrade internal Tomcat to version 9.0.46.
• Core: New configuration parameter "MENCToolActivity.tool_bl_list.fallback". If a MENCToolActivity has no MRL tool assigned, the item ID and revision can be determined from the object_name (if the parameter is set to true)
  (Syntax: [ItemID]_[ItemRev] / example: NXT_DRILL_2010_100_A).
• Core: Pre_Upload_Process_Name can now be configured for different DNC types.
• ActiveDNC: UploadFileNameFilter is now supported. With this, the file names in the upload dialog can now be filtered like in the old web client. The configuration differs slightly.
• ActiveDNC: A separate configuration file (UI_SFP_UploadFile_Dialog.conf) can now be created for the upload dialog in workshop programming. If this does not exist, the general file (UI_UploadFile_Dialog.conf) is used. The two versions cannot be operated simultaneously.
• ActiveDNC: Additional log messages when opening a workpackage from the search result.
• ActiveDNC: The import dialog in the shop floor programming now supports the creation of different activity folder types (e.g. Mea0MEFixPlaneActivity). The type could be specified before, but was not taken into account.
• ActiveDNC: It is now possible to call the search of ActiveDNC directly via additional parameters in the URL (externCall).
• API: The function SFC_DataManagement_CreateDataset_20181 can now optionally be passed the MENCProgram type if a MENCProgram folder is to be created.

Bugfixes/Changes

• Core: Bugfix in SOAPRequestItemRevisionDetail. A java.lang.ClassCastException occurred when calling unloadObject.
• ActiveDNC: When displaying a JT model in the internal viewer, the display froze or the information of the loaded work package was not available afterwards. This problem has been fixed.
• ActiveDNC: The function "Assign ID" inside "Shop Floor Programming/New" does now honor the configured naming rule for the configured item type.
• ActiveDNC: Correction of the tool list view when a tool is used in several program groups. Until now, this was only displayed in the first program group.
• ActiveDNC: Fix for the search dialogs when Item-ID and/or Item-Name contains long values. The command bar on the right side was not always displayed in this case. This issue has been fixed.
• ActiveDNC: In the SFCQuery_conf a validator can now be set for an HTML input field, via which the minimum and maximum length of the entered search string as well as a pattern can be specified. Thus, for example, the search with only one wildcard can be suppressed.
• ActiveDNC: Optimize viewer to display HTML pages of UGCAMShopDoc and CME_Report dataset types.
• Failover V2: Minor bug fixes in file management for revised workpackages.
• Failover V2: Fix for error "A truncation error was encountered trying to shrink "VARCHAR" by changing the size of column object_string to 4000.
• Failover V2: Fixed an issue where availablity check failed when the occurrence type of a workplace item is not set in the BOM of the requested workpackage.
• Failover: The internal data field for saving the SFCWorkpackage has been increased from 1MB to 10MB.
• Distribution: The format of the archive files was changed from BZip2 to XZ. This makes the archives smaller.

 
MMR Service

Enhancements

• MMR/P: Adaptations to the new API V4. SI 5.1.1 is now required to transfer NC packages.
• First version to check for optimized NC files in MMR programs and transfer them to Teamcenter.

MI-Server

Enhancements

• Upgrade internal Tomcat to version 9.0.46.

Subject to change without notice.

Shop Floor Connect for Teamcenter, DNC Connect, 3rd Party Integration, API and MMR Service Release 2021.2

The new Shop Floor Connect, DNC Connect, 3rd Party Integration, API, MMR Service version 2021.2 is released and now available. Please look below for the enhancements and changes of the different modules.

The release is available for all customers with maintenance agreement and access to our Customer Information Center (CIC) for download (please create a release activity).

All customers who do not have access to our CIC platform and want to download the software over CIC have to require access over the following link. Please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you want the release on a data medium. Direct Siemens PLM Software customers can get the release from the GTAC download area.

This Shop Floor Connect Release 2021.2 supports all Teamcenter UA versions from 10.x up to the actual version Teamcenter 13.1.

Urgent Service notes

• DNC Connect only supports the actual NX versions who are under maintenance from Siemens.

• For customers who want to update on the Teamcenter 11.3 version or higher: From TC 11.3 and on, a new license verification will be done upon the creation of manufacturing objects like MEProcess, MEOP, MEWorkArea and their sub-types (including custom types). This check will be done on server side per Teamcenter policy and to ensure license verification. It will use two new feature keys: 1) mfg_planning_lite for verifying MEProcess, MEOP and their sub-types 2) mfg_plant_author for verifying MEWorkArea and its sub-types.
  This new license check will be done in addition to other license verification that exists today. If you don't find them in your Teamcenter 11.3 or higher license key please get in contact with Siemens PLM.

• The new UI Shop Floor Connect Active DNC drop support of Internet Explorer 11 and older! Please use Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome or the new Microsoft Edge Browser!

   

Shop Floor Connect /DNC Connect / 3rd Party Integration / API

Enhancements

• Failover: Searching by a MENCProgram name (activity folder name) is now supported.
• Core: On startup, the configured shutdown port of Apache Tomcat is also written to the log file.
• ActiveDNC: First version of the element for dynamic generation of the tool list from the tool activities of a MENCMachining revision implemented (resource tracker). This functionality will be extended and completed in the following release 2021.3. Connection to a tool presetter is not yet included.
  Requires at least TC version 12.4.3 or TC 13.1.

Bugfixes/Changes

• Core: The java.lang.IllegalMonitorStateException error when accessing a user session was fixed.
• Core: If all configured machine interfaces were deleted directly in the Teamcenter Portal, a subsequent "Reload configuration" did not delete the entries from the internal cache database. This problem has been fixed.
• Core: After an update the SFC_SessionManager.ser is no longer deleted automatically. This means that automatic synchronization of the configuration after an update is no longer necessary.
• Failover: Fix for: A truncation error was encountered trying to shrink CLOB '<stream-value>' to length 262144.
• Failover: The search in failover mode could not return results if the Teamcenter preference "WSOM_find_list_separator" was configured to a character other than ";".
• ActiveDNC: Fix for error: Subsequent characters of component identifier must be a letter, a digit, an underscore ('_'), or a dash ('-')! But component identifier "UID__......" contains "$".
• ActiveDNC: Download of larger files (e.g. videos) for display took a very long time. This problem has been solved.
• ActiveDNC: Update CompareFiles.dll which contains now a local IP detection which is required in combination with DHCP.
• WebClient: Fixed an issue which brokes import of local files.
• Fixed a problem in MI administration. When existing configuration forms are linked to a copy via "IMAN_based_on", the conversion of configuration forms to configuration dataset failed.

MMR Service

Bugfixes/Changes

• Optimize tool plan PATCH operation.
• The transfer of a NC program from a Teamcenter workpackage to MMR-Programs has been reactivated. Currently only a data set can be transferred to MMR-Programs. Updating and reporting back to Teamcenter is not yet possible.
• Tool plan: A fallback value for the attribute "Tool name in NC program" was set based on the tool activity name if no value based on the mapping settings are found. The fallback is removed. In this case, MMR now uses the value from the tool master data set.

Subject to change without notice.

Shop Floor Connect/Resource Tracker/DNC Connect/3rd Party Integration/API - Release 2021.1 - February 2021

The new Shop Floor Connect, Resource Tracker, DNC Connect, 3rd Party Integration, API, MMR Service version 2021.1 is released and now available. Please look below for the enhancements and changes of the different modules.

The release is available for all customers with maintenance agreement and access to our Customer Information Center (CIC) for download (please create a release activity).

All customers who do not have access to our CIC platform and want to download the software over CIC have to require access over the following link. Please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you want the release on a data medium. Direct Siemens PLM Software customers can get the release from the GTAC download area.

This Shop Floor Connect Release 2021.1 supports all Teamcenter UA versions from 10.x up to the actual version Teamcenter 13.x.

Urgent Service notes

• DNC Connect only supports the actual NX versions who are under maintenance from Siemens.
• For customers who want to update on the Teamcenter 11.3 version or higher: From TC 11.3 and on, a new license verification will be done upon the creation of manufacturing objects like MEProcess, MEOP, MEWorkArea and their sub-types (including custom types). This check will be done on server side per Teamcenter policy and to ensure license verification. It will use two new feature keys: 1) mfg_planning_lite for verifying MEProcess, MEOP and their sub-types 2) mfg_plant_author for verifying MEWorkArea and its sub-types.
• This new license check will be done in addition to other license verification that exists today. If you don't find them in your Teamcenter 11.3 or higher license key please get in contact with Siemens PLM.
• The new UI Shop Floor Connect Active DNC drop support of Internet Explorer 11 and older! Please use Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome or the new Microsoft Edge Browser!
  
  

Shop Floor Connect/Resource Tracker/DNC Connect/3rd Party Integration/API

Enhancements

• Upgrade internal Tomcat to version 9.0.40
• As of TC 12.4.0.3 and TC 13.1, the previous ShopFloorConnect TEM feature is no longer required for new ShopFloorConnect installations. Instead, the new "Part Manufacturing Shopfloor Integration" (PM0) feature should be used.
  ShopFloorConnect detects the template when the DNC setup folder is created and sets the types to be used in the configuration files.
  When upgrading an existing installation, the previous TEM feature must continue to be used. A migration of the Business-Object types (BO's) is not provided.
• Upgrade existing ShopFloorConnect TEM Feature for TC13 support. This is only required for upgrades where SFC is already installed. New installations (TC13 and newer) can now use the "Part Manufacturing" feature (PM0).
• SFC_RequestSFCWorkpackage_20174 now also returns the UID of the corresponding BOMLine in SFCToolActivityData to access additional attributes.
• SFC_RequestSFCWorkpackage_20174 now evaluates the configuration parameter "MENCToolActivity.List.Pack".igration is not possible. The two versions cannot be operated simultaneously.
• ActiveDNC: Contains the first element of the MRL SFC Resource Tracker functionality - open a workpackage to access the tool list. More functions will be added in the coming versions. Important: The MRL Resource Tracker functionality requires Teamcenter Business Objects which are included in the "Part Manufacturing Shop Floor Integration" (PM0) feature as of TC 12.4.0.3 or 13.1.
• ActiveDNC: The display of a work package has been changed. The activity folders are now displayed individually with the files contained and the associated tool list.
• SFCWorkpackage (JSON) now contains the MEActivity objects listed in the root_activity.

Bugfixes/Change

• A refresh problem in SFC_RM_RequestResourcePackage_20171 was fixed which caused new elements in the BOM being found at a later time.

• ActiveDNC: Fixed a problem where a configured preview dataset was not displayed in the search result list if no preview image is available in the selected ItemRevision.

• Setup: The installation dialog has been modified, tabs that are no longer needed have been removed. No more need to select the Teamcenter version.

MI-Server

Enhancements

• Upgrade internal Tomcat to version 9.0.40
  
  
  

Subject to change without notice.