Built to adapt, designed to perform
With every update, MPA enhances how minerals processing operations monitor plant process, detect deviations, and respond. Guided by feedback from users in the field and the latest industry demands, MPA’s continuous updates ensure you’re always equipped with smarter insights, faster alerts and enhanced controls. Visit this page regularly to stay informed on the newest features and improvements designed to help your team maintain peak plant performance with confidence.
* Latest release highlights *
MPA 2.0.0 | March 2026
A major milestone for the MPA Suite
Version 2.0.0 marks a significant milestone for the MPA suite of applications. With this release, we have retired legacy components, allowing us to streamline the architecture, reduce complexity, and accelerate future delivery.
This modernisation strengthens the foundation of the MPA suite, enabling faster delivery of enhancements, a more consistent user experience, and greater agility for future development.
What’s new in 2.0.0
Version 2.0.0 introduces a range of new capabilities designed to improve productivity, streamline collaboration, and enhance the overall management of displays, workflows, and diagnostics across the MPA suite.
Simplified Display Sharing & Export
- Export displays as images or PDFs
- Send one‑off snapshot emails
- Set up recurring email subscriptions per display tab
External Links
- Add links to external resources directly within applications
Copy/Paste Enhancements
- Copy and paste gadgets and blocks in bulk between displays and workflows
- Preserve configuration and connections when duplicating
Block Version Updates
- Visual indicators highlight when workflow blocks have updates
- Update supported blocks with a single click
Improved Logs & Troubleshooting
- Paginated in‑app log viewer for large files
- More detailed MPA Server logging for easier diagnostics
Previous updates
MPA 1.13.0 | February 2026
MPA 1.13.0 delivers major enhancements across production events, analysis, and workflow development. This release continues our focus on expanding capability while improving ease of use.
Production Monitor
Production Monitor is now available, providing real‑time visibility of production events.
Designed for mineral processing operations, Production Monitor enables teams to capture and classify downtime and production loss events directly within MPA. Powered by recent event capture architecture improvements, this release introduces the Event Grid gadget, allowing operators to classify, split, validate, and manage events in a structured way.
This release introduces:
- A new Event Grid for viewing, classifying, splitting, and validating events
- Role based permissions for event creation, editing, and approval
- Late data handling, event referencing, and manual event insertion
- Improved event agent monitoring with clearer status indicators and detailed run statistics
New global search
A new global search makes navigation faster and more intuitive, enabling users to search applications, displays, workflows, and other resources from anywhere in the platform.
Interactive slicing for displays
Slicing introduces a powerful new way to explore and filter data across displays. The new Slicer Gadget allows users to drill into date ranges, numeric values, text inputs, and selections, enabling richer, more interactive analysis.
Builder & display enhancements
A new Graph gadget configuration editor simplifies basic chart configuration while preserving full power for advanced builders
Greater control over time selector defaults and available options, allowing display builders to tailor time ranges to specific use cases
Improved Data Grid navigation (arrow keys, tab/enter, undo/redo) for faster and more consistent data entry
Workflow improvements
Significant upgrades support faster, more reliable workflow development.
Highlights include:
- Playback & Replay modes for consistent testing without live data
- Parallel block execution and substantial performance improvements
- New blocks such as Group Columns and AF recorded values at times
- Expanded expression functions and the introduction of lists as a new data type
Import/export updates
The import/export process now includes version tracking and import mismatch warnings to assist with diagnosing configuration differences. This improves reliability when sharing or migrating configurations.
MPA 1.12.0 | July 2025
Production Monitor (preview)
A preview of the new Production Monitor application is now available. Designed for mineral processing operations, Production Monitor enables teams to capture and classify downtime and production loss events directly within MPA. Powered by recent improvements to event capture architecture, this release introduces the event grid gadget, allowing operators to classify, split, validate, and manage events in a structured way.
Builder enhancements
Significant improvements have been made to simplify and speed up application and workflow development:
- Cut, copy and paste gadgets, plus the ability to duplicate workflows
- Improved error handling for unavailable data sources
- Enhanced sub-workflow versioning and update tools, making it easier to manage large, complex configurations
Logsheet & Reporting enhancements
The Logsheet and Reporting applications have been enhanced to support a broader range of use cases and improved usability:
- PI event frame creation from logsheet entries enables better integration with event-based use cases
- New and updated workflow blocks expand reporting flexibility and support more complex reporting needs
- An updated time picker provides faster and more consistent time selection
MPA 1.11.0 | March 2025
Strengthening performance & stability
MPA is now faster and more responsive, with reduced load times and improved efficiency.
We’ve also enhanced logging and introduced data source test connections to identify data source errors.
Annotations
To improve collaboration, decision making and traceability, users can now annotate individual cells on a data grid and view a comment history, including who commented and when.
Workflow enhancements
We’ve enhanced workflows to make them more powerful and adaptable to your needs. New features allow builders to create expressions, rename columns, sort and filter within the workflow.
These updates enable more efficient data handling, better organisation, and improved usability — helping you get the most out of your workflows with less effort.
Logsheet and reporting enhancements
Logsheets and reporting always benefit from flexibility, so Mipac has given users greater control over writeable cells, allowing them to have more flexibility.
Builder & admin experience
Managing MPA displays, workflows, and gadgets is now even easier. A new workflow list view provides visibility into all workflows where they are used, drag-and-drop display ordering simplifies configuration, and improved error messages make troubleshooting easier when importing displays.
Event capture (preview)
Who doesn’t like shiny new things? This release introduces a preview of MPA’s event detection capabilities, laying the groundwork for event-driven insights and operational response in future releases.
Event capture will play an important role in our upcoming Production Monitor application.
MPA 1.10.0 | September 2024
Golden State application (NEW)
This new application assists operations in detecting and responding to production deviations by offering a clear and simple representation of when operations exceed defined limits. Its drill-down capability enables teams to quickly identify contributing factors to deviations, facilitating prompt and informed decisions to bring operations back on track.
Single sign on (SSO) with Microsoft Entra ID
Leverage the new SSO capabilities with Microsoft Entra ID, simplifying the login experience and reducing the need for users to remember multiple usernames and passwords. This feature lightens the administrator workload while providing enhanced security through a more streamlined and secure authentication process.
Logsheet application improvements
Enhancements include the addition of searchable dropdowns, improved time handling, and ad-hoc data entry capabilities, broadening support for new logsheet use cases and improving overall usability.
TARP application improvements
The TARP application has been upgraded to leverage the new workflow engine, including improvements to the TARP timeline gadget. This update offers additional settings, increasing flexibility for a more tailored experience.
Production Reporting application improvements
New workflow blocks (Fact Table, Pairwise, and Cumulative Sum) have been added and existing workflow blocks have been updated. These improvements expand MPA’s capability to support a broader range of production reporting use cases with enhanced functionality.
Significant display and gadget improvements
We’ve simplified the process for creating, renaming, reordering, and deleting tabs, and enhanced the experience of moving gadgets between tabs. Configuration panes now provide a more consistent and intuitive configuration experience across MPA.
Application management improvements
The new application overview page offers quick access to displays, workflows and settings. Teams can easily identify which workflows are associated with specific gadgets and track recent changes for more efficient system management.
MPA 1.09.0 | December 2023
Data workflow engine
The workflow engine has been overhauled, bringing improved usability and performance for all MPA users. Builders now have access to features including sub-workflows, block versioning and tagging, allowing efficient and flexible system configuration. Builders can build workflows combining any number of PI Web API, CSV, and SQL data sources.
Data source administration
Administrators can connect and name multiple PI Web API, CSV, and SQL data sources, enhancing your organisation’s ability to access and utilise data from your existing investments.
Application infrastructure
Users can comfortably navigate MPA application displays from the updated home page, navigation drawer, application overview page and header bar. The system setup process supports typical roles and responsibilities. Administrators can create and brand applications and then assign the applicable data sources. This enables builders to create displays (e.g. logsheets, reports) under each application to meet your organisation’s needs.
Write-back, auditing and annotations
MPA supports the write-back of data to all supported data sources, further enhancing the capabilities of MPA Logsheet and MPA Alarm Manager applications. All write-operations are audited so history is retained, such as who made the change and when. Also, all users can annotate values in the Data Grid from any workflow to help facilitate communication between your teams.
Legacy support
MPA version 1.9.0 retains support for existing landing page cards, views, workflows, and blocks.
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