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Export Department E-Mail: export@deprag.de
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We strongly recommend that you update your software on a regular basis with the latest security patches, updates and drivers. This will ensure that your device is up-to-date and you will profit from all advantages of industry 4.0.

Versions

Software Update 2026.02
This update includes improvements to stability, usability, and system functionality.
Highlights:
•    Correct display and saving of communication logs on the screen 
•    Improved stability during system restarts (web interface starts reliably) 
•    Expanded and more precise plausibility checks for fastenings 
With this update, you benefit from more reliable operation and optimized process reliability.

General
- Printer baud rate adjustable
- Fastening error number General error set to 255
- Comment for end values can be set via REST interface
- Start release via REST interface
- New signal recording function for analysis
- Load characteristic value per fastening available via end value data
- Plausibility check for print string and end value data added
- Ready status can be called up via Ready LED
- @errornum allowed for naming screw curve files
- Display Mac address for Ethercat interface
- Background color for warnings adjusted 

OPC-UA:
- Certificate management
- User management

Tightening steps and screw programs:
- New function: Torsion compensation
- Speed reduction in final tightening when fastening/loosening by angle and 
  extended fastening by angle can be deactivated
- Friction value measurement: Bug fixed -> torques less than 0 are evaluated as 0

Bug fixes:
- Heartbeat fieldbus bug fix
- Rotation angle search monitoring bug fix
- Website access bug fix after system startup

Known bug:
- Ethercat is permanently displayed as the setting, even when another protocol is active.
  When saving another protocol via the display, the default values for it are set.
- Product maintenance
-	Fastening strategy seating point detection (CFC) optimised
- Time server support
- Configurable file names for final values and curves
- Reverse button handheld screwdriver can be deactivated
- Permitted Barcode length 256 characters
- New functional components for process control (display text, request acknowledgement, force barcode, delete barcode)
- Process control: part lock can be used up to three times
- Improvements to fastening steps
                                               
OPC-UA
- Optimization of curve transmission
- Optimization of transfer of final values
- Output version information from screwdriver and controller
- Output of differencial torque and total torque for fasten to differencial torque

- Adjustable time zone
- Extension of the fieldbus interface with an additional status field “Ready to screw”
- Integration of barcode via OPC UA

- New Industry 4.0 interface: OPC-UA 
- Extension of the Industry 4.0 interfaces 
- Improvement of the safety settings
- Support of the screwdriver series 326/327
- New screwdriving strategy: Extended fasten to angle
- New language: Hungarian

- Product Maintenance
- Product maintenance
-  Product maintenance
- Support for AST12-3
- Extension to fieldbus interface: Feedback of the set program number
- Extension to fieldbus interface: Additional customer remark 2 with feedback
- Extension to fieldbus interface: Status display inputs STO1 and STO2
- Extension to fieldbus interface: Display of system error in the Industry 4.0 interface 
- Download via display option also for stationary screwdrivers
- Optimisations for the display of Chinese fonts

- New Process control app
- Saving of curves and final values can be configured
- Ready Status display in menu
- Start release input available for spindle screwdriver
- The file name when downloading all screwdriving curves has been changed from "measurements.zip" to a file name generated from the serial number, date and time.

- Support for AST12-2
- REST interface with variable order of fields 
- Display of the MAC address of fieldbus modules (if present)
- Display of logged-in users when logging out 
- System image can be created on the controller
- Optimised performance

- Product maintenance
- Connection of a barcode scanner for documentation and/or program selection
- Screwdriving template seating point detection, differential torque assembly and
  extended fastening to torque have been modified
- New parameter Acceleration for all screwdriving templates 
- Creation of standard programs on the display
- Adjustment of existing screwdriving programs on the display
- User administration on the display
- Reload via display for handheld screwdrivers
- Adjustable length of the reload signal
- Support for additional languages (French, Swedish, Portuguese, Spanish, Polish, Czech, Italian, Romanian and Chinese)
- 30-day test licences for extensions and screwdriving templates 
- Option to reset settings to default values
- Option to lock the website via Fieldbus
- Option to adjust the torque compensation to a specific torque value using the torque correction factor
- Optimisation of the update procedure
- Error message for empty back-up battery
- Option for configuration of a proxy server

- Product maintenance
- Maintenance
- First Version