Product Updates
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Archie can now create, update and delete time entries for everyone with permission to edit their own job clocks. Your permissions and the rules Archie follows are unchanged.
Builder pages can now open an uploaded PDF, like a customer purchase order (PO) or a parts list, show it on screen, and pull its text into a table you can review before creating anything in Fulcrum. Works with PDFs that contain real text, not scanned images.
When you turn a PDF into a quality template under Quality → Templates, you no longer have to press Auto-Tag yourself. Click New Template, start from a PDF, and when you click Use this template, Fulcrum tags the fields for you, the same way it already does for Word uploads.
Quality Templates is part of Fulcrum Control. Using Control but don't see Templates under Quality? Reach out to our support team or your account manager.
The nonconformance report (NCR) grid's Excel download now includes Customer Impact Analysis Required and CAPA (corrective and preventive action) Required, so it covers every field in the Analysis panel.
Archie can now attach an uploaded file to a routing step when it builds one for you.
Archie's item search now finds sheet, plate, bar and tube sizes, and marks remnants, so asking about a material by its exact name returns the right item. Archie also won't add a raw material as a bill of materials (BOM) input by mistake.
A routing or bill of materials (BOM) change becomes the template for every future job of that item. Archie now states what it will change and waits for your OK first.
When a line shipped in more than one box, every box label listed every lot on the line, so you had to cross out the ones that weren't inside. Add the new {{boxPackingDetails}} variable to your packing label template, and each label lists only the lots, quantities and expiration dates packed in that box. Box labels also now print in box order. Templates you haven't changed print the same lots as before.
Your job page already shows which material lots were picked for a job. Now your labels can too. Add {{inputLots}} to a job label template in Label Settings to print the picked lot numbers. It works on job labels, subassembly labels and labels printed from Job Tracking.
Saving a purchase order now updates only the jobs whose links actually changed, so saves on busy orders finish sooner and time out less often.
Builder now writes and edits your pages with our newest AI model. Large page edits, like combining several pages into one, also stream as they're written. They no longer stop partway with "An unexpected error occurred."
Vendor running behind on anodize for Job 1234? Ask Archie to change the lead days on that job's outside-processing step. It shows you the change before saving, then updates the job's schedule and outside-processing planning and logs the change on the job. Custom pages built with Archie Builder can edit lead days too, so you can build your own lead-time review page.
This works one job at a time. It doesn't change the vendor's default lead time or the item's routing, so jobs you create later aren't affected. Jobs that are complete, cancelled, or have an active work order on that step can't be changed.
Archie keeps an attached PDF or image in view when you confirm on your next message.
Rolling out over the next few weeks. If you don't see it yet, it's coming.
