What's New in the SPC Office Buddy 3.3
What’s New in the SPC Office Buddy 3.3?
New Look
The new look includes all new icons that are easier to distinguish with added toggle buttons for showing/hiding Excel Job and Batch Job panels.
Shared Filtering
You can now optionally share filtering with QC-CALC. This allows you to create filters in either QC-CALC Real-Time or QC-CALC SPC and use them in the SPC Office Buddy.
Email Ability in Excel Jobs
You can now email the resulting Excel reports when the job completes. This furthers the automatic reporting capability if you run Excel Jobs or Batch Jobs from the Windows Scheduler or from QC-CALC Real-Time.
New Batch Job Functionality
This new functionality allows you to set up several Excel Jobs to run in a batch without having to run them through a DOS file (this functionality is still supported). This makes it much easier to build complex Excel reports that include data from multiple QCC files and/or filtered multiple ways (grouped).
Separate Excel Job and Batch Job Files
Excel Jobs and Batch Jobs are now stored in separate files that can be shared on the network with other Buddy users. This also makes it easier for importing and exporting jobs.
Improved Importing/Exporting of Excel Jobs
Exporting Excel Jobs now creates a ZIP file with all the necessary Jobs and template Excel spreadsheets. When imported, the importer is smart enough to understand where to put the template spreadsheets so you can run the jobs immediately without worrying about the correct file paths.
New Tag Types
A myriad a new fields can be sent to your Excel reports including all QC-CALC notes, record counts, and subgroup counts. In addition, you can output statistics directly from the QCC file such as upper and lower control limits for XBar, Range, and Sigma.
True Position Reporting Including 3D True Position
You can now run both 2D and 3D True Position charts from within the Buddy. If running the 3D True Position chart, it is interact in the Prolink Charting tool allowing you to move, zoom, and rotate the chart data in 3D space.
Improved Charting with Mouse Events
All charts in the Prolink Charting package now support mouse movements over the data itself. This allows you to move your pointer over a data point and see the value in the tray of the window.
Dimension Stacking
When running charts in either Minitab or Prolink Charting, you can now choose to stack the columns of data being sent before running the chart. This allows you to aggregate multiple columns of data with the same nominals and tolerances into one chart.
Outlier Removal
When using Prolink Charting, you can choose to remove outliers from the resultset. When the chart is being drawn, outliers will be removed in successive rounds until no more outliers are found.
Unused Tag Cleanup
You can now choose to clean up unused tags in your Excel Job. This is useful if you put extra tags into the template to accommodate large data sets and then run it on a smaller data set.