Product Updates

The AI model behind auto-bubbling has been improved to detect significantly more characteristics across engineering drawings, including GD&T callouts, dimensional tolerances, and surface finish requirements that previous versions missed. We also redesigned the UI: detected characteristics are now highlighted on the drawing but not bubbled until you explicitly click on them.

In the future, AI will learn from your selection patterns to mirror your bubble preferences, making creating inspection plans not only fast but specific to your shop.

The team recently performed a project to update the receiving page.  For the most part, the functionality of the page is staying the same - the primary function is still to receive inventory, but better!

The primary motivation for the update is to use some newer technology under the hood that makes the page faster and more reliable - quicker loads and no crashing.

At the same time, we took the opportunity to add a few new things as well:

New Line Item Grid Data

• Purchase Order Line Number
• Item Thumbnails
• Vendor Item Names
• Fully Receive

Improved Visibility

• OP Line Item Custom Fields will now be visible while receiving
• Hyperlink from Line Item to Item Record (considers permissions)

New Functionality (VIDEO)

• Editable Issue Names
• Bulk Label Printing
• Mark All Fully Received

Currently invite only. Rolling out over the next 6 weeks.

This feature adds the ability to bubble surface finish specifications on drawings.  If a specification is selected, Fulcrum’s AI tool will now attempts to capture surface finish information if detected.  The annotation form is updated as well here to allow the specification of a surface finish as a new type of control category (now Geometric/GDT, dimensional, thread, note, and surface finish).

In the operations list on a job’s page, you’ll now be able to see the scheduled start date of the operation. This provides improved visibility into a job’s schedule and estimated completion without having to jump between tabs.

An in process tracking measurement might only be necessary on one part, but you may be required to take multiple measurements to confirm the value is within tolerance.

First Article measurements now always trigger on part 1 and continue at the defined sampling frequency, ensuring required inspections occur on the first part and at every specified interval thereafter.

For those of you on ITAR-compliant environments, you can now use our AI-powered PDF parsing for Nesting Setup Sheets. We know many of you have been waiting for this, and we're excited to finally bring it to you.

What We Did:

This feature required additional work to ensure the AI models we use meet ITAR compliance requirements. That's now in place.

What You're Getting:

The same PDF parsing capabilities our other customers have been using, upload your Nesting Setup Sheet PDFs and let our AI extract the data directly into nests in the app. The system recognizes all major nesting software formats (ProNest, SigmaNest, Dr. Abe, Boost, CADMAN, Lantek, and others) and parses accordingly.

Get Started:

The feature is live now in your environment. If you run into any issues or have feedback on the parsing accuracy, let us know, your input helps us continue improving.

We’ve released a new walkthrough video highlighting Control, our quality management product built to streamline inspection planning, execution, and reporting inside Fulcrum.

Control is designed to improve production outcomes while strengthening compliance. Rather than treating quality as a separate system or after-the-fact documentation exercise, Control connects inspection data directly to jobs, operators, tools, and reporting in one continuous workflow.

We've heard your feedback about errors and inaccuracies when our system reads your Nesting Setup Sheet PDFs. These issues were forcing you to manually correct data or causing problems downstream in your workflow. We've made significant improvements to fix this.

What's Changed:

Our AI now reads your PDF setup sheets more intelligently, preserving the layout and formatting that's critical for accurate data extraction. We've also improved how the system identifies which nesting software you're using (ProNest, SigmaNest, Dr. Abe, Boost, CADMAN, Lantek, etc.) and tailored the parsing specifically for each one.

What This Means for You:

You should see fewer parsing errors right away. The data extracted from your setup sheets will be more accurate from the start, which means less time spent manually correcting information and more confidence that your automated workflows have the right data

These changes are live now. If you've been hesitant to rely on automated parsing because of accuracy issues, we encourage you to give it another try. AI development is a continual process, so please keep giving us feedback on the results you're seeing. This helps us continue to improve accuracy and better serve your specific use cases.

Many of the shops Fulcrum works with leverage RFIDs, NFCs, or scanners throughout their shop. Previously, the job tracking and time clock logins were designed to require a keypad input from the monitor. Now, you can paste values into the pin number field. This means that you could set up a basic script to log in by scanning.

In addition to Stock Take, there’s a new inventory export and import. This lives in Business Setup > Import / Export under ‘Inventory’. The export downloads all items, with their inventory (or zero), and allows you to change the quantity by using one of three event types:

• Adjustment - to set qty directly (3 sets qty to 3)
• Pick - to increment down (3 decreases qty by 3)
• Receive - to increment up (3 increases qty by 3)

This is different than a stock take for a couple of reasons:

1. A stock take cannot pick or receive.
2. A stock take requires all lot and location combos on the import. This allows partial inventory updates.

To note:

• The import will not pick below zero
• The quantity changes do maintain existing inventory unit values
• Quantity is updated by item/lot/location combo

Packing labels support both shipment variables and line item variables. The label button in Shipping Details now prints one label per line item, so variables populate correctly and you can bulk print labels for multi-item shipments. 

When using “Update Parent Item” on a PO, Fulcrum now records the raw material vendor and calculates price per pound or kilogram, which improves quoting accuracy.

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Last year, Fulcrum added the ability to capture fees and taxes in the ‘landed cost’ of items received on a PO. Initially, this applied only to buy items, but it’s now possible to incorporate fees and taxes into the landed cost for outside processing receipts as well. Here’s a video from the original release in case you missed it!

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To increase material discoverability, we're releasing a tab in the BOM editor just for materials.  This filterable list includes all activated and inactive materials, with previously activated materials sorted to the top (indicated by a star, similar to the materials grid).  

If you do happen to select or drag/drop an inactive material onto the BOM, it will automatically activate it before adding to the BOM as normal, removing the workflow that would otherwise force you to go to the materials grid, activate something, then come back to the BOM editor to add it.

In order to give more visibility into what an import is about to do, there’s now a preview button on the import page. This preview will also include any errors, so you no longer need to click the download button to know what needs to be corrected.