Minitab Connect 7 Features & Enhancements
Minitab Connect 7.7 provides a new way to integrate into external systems using API requests. This release also includes important bug fixes, security updates, new connector types and enhancements, and performance improvements.
Feature Addition: Call URL
User Benefit
Use the Call URL feature to make an API request. For example, you could power down a machine, alert an internal or external group, or log additional information.
Summary
This feature is available in two locations in Connect. You create a new process in a flow that calls a URL or you can specify an alarm to call a URL. You can only call a website that begins with https://, and you cannot make more than 200 calls per hour or 1000 calls per day. This feature is only available for Developer users.
Minitab Connect 7.5 provides a variety of additional dashboarding enhancements. The enhancements include new control charts, slicer interactions, important bug fixes, connector updates, and interface modifications.
Feature Addition: I Chart and Laney P’ Chart
User Benefit
The Individuals chart improves readability of individual type data that was previously only available using an I-MR Chart. The Laney P’ chart allows users to create attributes charts that adjust for overdispersion or underdispersion.
Summary
Use an Individuals chart (I chart), to monitor the mean of your process when you have continuous data that are individual observations that are not in subgroups. Use this control chart to monitor process stability over time so that you can identify and correct instabilities in a process.
Use a Laney P’ chart to monitor the proportion of defective items that are produced by your process and to adjust for overdispersion or underdispersion in your data. Overdispersion can cause a traditional P chart to show an increased number of points outside the control limits. Underdispersion can cause a traditional P chart to show too few points outside of the control limits. The Laney P’ chart adjusts for these conditions. For more information, go to Overdispersion and underdispersion.
Feature Addition: Control Chart Stages
User Benefit
Stages allow users to display multiple process changes over specific periods of time on a single control chart.
Summary
Use stages to create a historical control chart that shows how a process changes over specific periods of time. Stages make it easy to communicate process changes and shifts in process behavior within a single visualization. By default, control charts recalculate the center line and control limits for each stage.
Minitab Connect 7.4.5 provides a few bug fixes and an important update to control chart alerts.
Feature Addition: Control Chart Alert Rework
User Benefit
This rework addresses the use case where users add new data or modify existing data in the Minitab Connect System. Users now receive alerts on control charts for any points they add or modify after they update the data.
Summary
Previously, when users modified or added new data, they received alerts only based on the last point in the control chart. We identified that this was a serious issue for customers who were pushing batches of data, as they did not receive alerts for all of their data. This rework ensures that users receive alerts for all new and modified data points to raise awareness about potential problems.
