Multiple Approvers

Any item can be set to have multiple approvers. The maximum number of approvers for an item is six. Multiple approval requirements can be based on a dollar limit, dollar range, specific cost center, document type, or any combination of these for any item where approvals have been enabled. For example, one PO might require one approver, while another PO may require two approvers based on the type, amount, department, or combination of these. Our system can handle any normal scenario.

E-Sign Approval

You can enable e-signing for any approval or partial approval mode based on document ty​pe, dollar range or cost center.

Centralized Purchasing

The Purchase Order Generato​r is a tool that can be used for centralized purchasing or by each site's procurement team to streamline the generation of approved requisitions into the appropriate purchase orders for suppliers.

Preventive Maintenance

Easily set up preventive maintenance procedures with plans and recordable step actions, complete with labor, service and parts estimates, diagrams or attached documentation. View the entire lifecycle of procedures, for an asset, all in one place. Copy corporate action plans for even faster set-up. Create routes, daily recurring checks with multiple assets. Set procedures to be generated manually or automatically based on calendar or meter based rules or a combination of both.

DynaStar™ Web still allows multiple action plans and override capabilities and now handles the pre-assignment of multiple workers to each plan. Use our new PM Generate type with our new PM Classification to allow finer control of the work order type generated for the work order. Use our new Display Type to easily change the way work orders are displayed and printed to better suit routes and daily checks.

Predictive Maintenance

Create inspections or procedures based on the measured condition of a machine, with all the functionality offered by preventive maintenance procedures.

Corporate Action Plans

Designed for companies of all sizes, Corporate Action Plans allow the creation and optional approval of maintenance plans for preventive, predictive, test or safety procedures. This allows all users to easily follow the same best practice for the company, simply by applying the action plan to a procedure being created. Company action plans are archived for a complete history and, if required, an archived copy can be restored and used.

System Generated Alerts

With our unlimited number of meters per machine and our meter status feature, you can easily set up an alarm to send a notification with instructions to one or more users when a monitored condition falls within any range or limit set.

System Generated Work Order

Combined with ou​r system generated alerts and unlimited meters per machine and meter status capability, the system can easily be set to generate a work order when a monitored condition falls within any range or limit set.

Calendar Based Scheduling

Use the calendar-based scheduling tool to easily select and allocate work to individual trades on any day of the week, today, tomorrow, next week, next month.

User Utilization Scheduling

Select a user, see their availability, see what work is currently assigned to them and schedule work based on their availability and their skills.

E-Sign Off

Enable E-Sign off for work orders and capture an electronic signature from tradespeople and stakeholders on the work order.

Project Management

DynaStar™ Web introduces a completely new feature: our Project Manager. Plan out projects with multiple phases and multiple jobs with ease. Track and control work progress and budgeting at every level. Create capital projects, maintenance projects or just use for purchasing. Use the Project Manager to plan and insert work orders into the work order system for every phase.

Valuation

We have expanded the valuation methods available for valuing parts from three two five methods. Inventory can now be valued by FIFO, Avg Cost, Last Price Paid, LIFO or SIM. The valuation method is no longer a one-size-fits-all approach; it can now be applied part by part, or by part type, or by location. We have also added the capability to enforce IAS 2 (International Accounting Standards).

IAS 2 requires the same cost formula to be used for all inventories with a similar nature and use to the company, even if they are held by different legal entities in a group or in different countries.

US GAAP allows use of different cost formulas for inventory, despite having similar nature and use to the company. Therefore, each company in a group can categorize its inventory and use the cost formula best suited to it.

Equipment QR Codes

A QR Code is generated automatically for every piece of equipment in the equipment tree. Unlike other systems, you are not limited to just 25. Some of our clients have 10,000 pieces of equipment in their tree. Scan the QR Code and you will be taken directly to that equipment's user-customisable dashboard and information page. Click once and you will be taken from the dashboard to any of the detailed information on the equipment.

Meters

A meter in DynaStar™ is anything that can be measured. DynaStar™ allows unlimited meters per equipment or equipment component. Any meter can be used to generate an alert, a work order or kick off a Preventive, Predictive or Safety Maintenance Procedure.

Part Attributes

DynaStar™ Web has improved and streamlined the setup of tracking attributes for parts (size, length, width, speed and so on). Simply define the attributes to be tracked for a 'type' of part and all parts of that 'type' will automatically have those attributes available. There is no limit to the part types that can be defined and no limit to the number of attributes that can be tracked.

Quote Management

DynaStar™ Web now has a full Quote Manager. This improves and streamlines the process for sending and receiving quotes for items. You can use this from the Part, Requisition and Purchase Order Managers. Just highlight the items you want quotes for and select Generate Quote. The quotes will be generated for all the suppliers associated with the items. You can also choose which suppliers to quote from and send the quotes. Each quote is numbered and emailed out. You will be notified when quotes are returned. Quotes are automatically attached to the items. Just choose the best quotes and click to apply and update the appropriate information.

Roles and Permissions

DynaStar™ Web continues to use the industry standard of roles and permissions to control access to data. We don't lock you into just a Technician or Manager role like other systems. We include a comprehensive set of roles with pre-defined permissions, ready for immediate use. However, as usual, you have full access to our canned roles, as well as the ability to create and customize roles with permissions that align with your specific team requirements. DynaStar™ always gives clients the tools to customise the setup to their specific needs. DynaStar™ Web improves this area by allowing permissions not just to a manager but to tabs and even grids within managers. You can create a role, assign permissions to the role, then assign users to the role. A user will only see and do what you allow them to see and do. This also now applies to reports. A user will only see data on a report they are allowed to see.

Data Segregation

DynaStar™ Web is the new and improved software that has taken everything we did right in previous versions and made it even better. We've created Divisions and Sites and we've added user types (Corporate, Division, Site) to make it easier for you to control  access to your data. A site user will only see data for the sites they are assigned to, and you can also set different permissions depending on the site. For instance, you can choose to let a user create a work order in their home site, but only view or not see at all work orders from another site. You have complete control over data access between and for any site and user within your organization.

Authentication

DynaStar™ Web provides users with two convenient options for access: Active Directory Authentication or DynaStar Authentication.

Single Sign-On

DynaStar™ Web now offers Single Sign-On as an option.

Two Factor Authentication

DynaStar™ Web can be enabled with two-factor authentication.

Delegate Authority

DynaStar™ Web now allows approvers to delegate their approvals. Simply set an away message and your delegate can approve any approvals in your queue.

Downime Tracking

Downtime is the single biggest source of inefficiency in any production environment. Use DynaStar™ Web's DownTime Manager to categorize these inefficiencies and develop procedures and strategies to reduce and eliminate them. With the ability of an unlimited downtime cause tree, severity codes, unlimited custom fields and automated data collection capabilities, customers can track any data to help reduce inefficiencies and improve their metrics.

Condition Based Monitoring

With DynaStar™ Web's new API capability real-time condition based monitoring is now more easily implemented. Machine health monitoring allows maintenance teams to: identify potential problems before they arise and cause equipment failure, and reduce frequency of maintenance activities ensuring maintenance is only done as needed.

Corporate Parts

DynaStar™ Web now has a Corporate Part Manager. This allows organizations to maintain a full corporate parts list (CPL) that can be transferred to a facilities Part Manager. The Corporate Part Manager allows organizations to manage the relationship between the corporate (internal) part number and supplier and OEM numbering, enforce a numbering and naming scheme, decide which supplier to purchase from and what details a facility should track. Facilities benefit from a standardized Part List between facilities and still maintain the capability of adding parts specific to their own operations to their Part Manager, and adding facility specific information to the part but maintaining the corporate numbering and naming.

Cycle Counts

DynaStar™ has always had cycle counting capabilities, both in the application and via handheld units. Users can easily create count sheets by count due or ad hoc. DynaStar™ Web adds a new utility to easily set count rules for the entire inventory and calculate without manual input how many parts to count per day and on what day of the year to ensure at least one count per year of the inventory. Count rules can be easily set for 1 or 12 times per year, depending on the organization's needs.

Adjustments, Returns and Transfers

DynaStar™ Web continues to offer full parts management. It enhances this area with a new returns manager and a transfer manager.

Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)

Easily track Vendor Managed Inventory, Consignment Inventory alongside Plant Inventory and access all your stocked parts information in one place, making it easier for the maintenance team to access everything they need for parts estimating in one place.

Tool Tracking

Track the tools used by the maintenance team for the work to be carried out using the Tool Transaction Manager or by adding them to estimates on the work order and checking them out and in directly from the work order.

Part Serialization and LOT tracking

DynaStar™ Web adds the ability to easily serialize parts or track Lot information for inventory and usage on a machine.

Document Numbering

DynaStar™ is unique in that it allows numbering to be specific to your organization. The number is not just 1, 2, 3 and so on. You can number with a prefix of your choice and a length of number that makes sense. A PO can be numbered according to the fiscal year, the calendar year, the month, the facility ID, or any other method you choose. In older versions of DynaStar™, this had to be done with a slight customization to the software. DynaStar™ Web has improved this and opened up the numbering for a multitude of items. Clients can have different numbering schemas for different sites and even multiple numbering schemas within a document/manager. For example, a Capital PO can have one numbering schema, a Normal PO a different one, a Standing PO a different one and so on. Any Manager within DynaStar™ Web can have multiple numbering schemas that make sense to your team based on the type of the document.

User Defined Fields

DynaStar™ has always been powerful, allowing clients to add an unlimited number of their own fields to the system. These fields can be seen on grids, used for searching data and reports, and much more. DynaStar™ Web takes this functionality to the next level across the entire software. For instance, a client can add their own field to a work order, ensuring all work orders now track this custom data. Alternatively, they can add the field to a specific work order type, allowing them to track custom data on those types only. Our user-defined fields can be used for tracking data for a whole document, types of document, attributes on different part types, serialization data and much more. Already powerful, DynaStar™ Web's User Defined Fields are now even more powerful.

Dashboards

DynaStar™ Web now includes dashboards. Users can set the dashboard screen as their default sign-in screen and easily customise their dashboard with a selection of options based on their system use: maintenance, stores, procurement, accounting and so on. Items selected for the dashboard can also be based on the type of access a user has: administrator, corporate, divisional or specific facility (site).