Product Updates
2022

Manufacturing Connect Edge 3.3.1

5min

Release Date: December 13, 2022

New Features

Description

DeviceHub:

  • Support is now provided for the following drivers:
    • BACnet BacnetIP
    • Danfoss FC/TSC
    • Emerson DNP3 Ethernet
    • Emerson ROC800 Ethernet
    • IEC IEC60870-5-102 Ethernet (Gen1)
    • ODVA CIP Explicit (Gen1)
    • OPC UA Client Advanced
    • Profinet Acyclic

Tokens:

  • You can now set up a NATS Proxy connection, which allows data to be transferred between multiple Manufacturing Connect Edge instances. You can also set up a connection between a Manufacturing Connect Edge instance and an external developer application.

System:

  • Role-based access control (RBAC) now allows you to customize roles, groups, and users for user management. You can customize individual modify/view permissions in Manufacturing Connect Edge to roles and groups, which will then be assigned to respective users.

Enhancements and Improvements

Description

DeviceHub:

  • When you add a tag to a device, you now have the option of adding meta data to the individual tag. Meta data summarizes basic information about data and allows you to define key-value pair data for the output payload.
  • When you add a tag to a device, you can now enable the option to Only Publish on Change of Value. This option customizes NATS messages to be published only when the value parameter changes from a previous value to a new one. This only applies to numerical/string data values such as int, real, and float. It does not apply to JSON or arrays. Poll-once topics will not be affected by Change of Value settings. These topics will still only see a single message.
  • The Tag Formula parameter is now available for Gen 2 driver tags.

Applications:

  • The following enhancements/improvements have been made in Manufacturing Connect to the Marketplace feature:
    • Ability to copy/paste and edit original compose files. You can also convert compose files into advanced config after publishing.
    • Ability to specify the network mode (none, host, bridge) for a specific Marketplace component and launch it.
    • Ability to create components using an advanced workflow. You can set separate hosts, networks, and container configurations.

Integration

  • The MQTT connector now has an option for Persistent storage.
  • The MQTT connector now has option to define the QoS parameter at the topic level.

Resolved Issues

Description

DeviceHub:

  • The Mitsubishi QJ71E71 driver no longer shows CONNECTED when an incorrect Station ID parameter is entered. The status will now correctly show DISCONNECTED if the Station ID parameter is incorrect.
  • The M register in tags now displays all supported data types.
  • The Generator driver now displays messages for Poll-Once topics in tags if a special character is used in the tag name.

Flows Manager:

  • Fixed issue with flows not opening in a new window when you remotely access Manufacturing Connect Edge from Manufacturing Connect.

Integration:

  • Several issues and improvements have been made to the MQTT connector.

System:

  • System events now correctly tag the driver name and device name.

Deprecated Components and Features

Description

DeviceHub:

  • The following Gen 2 drivers are no longer offered:
    • Mitsubishi FX3G-Binary Ethernet
    • Mitsubishi Q-Ascii
    • Mitsubishi Q-Binary
    • Panasonic Mewtocol Ethernet
    • Siemens S7-200 Ethernet
    • Siemens S7 Sinumerik Ethernet
  • Internet Protocol for Smart Objects (IPSO) features are no longer offered.

Integration:

  • The Access connector and Google IoT Core connector are no longer offered.

Applications:

  • Graphs from Marketplace Apps are no longer offered.

Known Issues

Description

Applications:

  • You may not be able to connect or disconnect a container to the default host and none networks in the Applications module.
  • A registry can be removed without asking the user for an explicit confirmation.
  • Docker doesn't restore the WG lemwg0 interface after a container is restarted.

DeviceHub:

  • When you toggle a network to ON in Device Discovery, the WiFi icon may not display.
  • When you add a tag to the Siemens S7 driver, you aren't allowed to configure a DB number greater than 255. The maximum number should be 65,535.

System:

  • When the following tasks fail, error messages don't provide enough information to troubleshoot the issues.
    • Template deployments
    • Remote access
    • Apply Marketplace templates
  • InfluxDB initialization for large databases is unstable (slow, with high CPU consumption).
  • Software upgrade is not supported on VirtualBox 6.1.x; upgrade attempt may result in a corrupted, unrecoverable appliance.
  • If the device name is the same as the one that appears in the template, the template upload fails for the devices with the same configuration.
    • Workaround: Edit the device name in the template file, so that it doesn't match the one in the template.

Datahub:

  • The UI incorrectly reflects the time series database size.

Flows:

  • Some of the drop-down lists are not filled with the correct values until after the first deployment.

Web UI

  • The UI layout gets misaligned with certain combinations of screen sizes and resolutions