Production workspace and batches
Manage production runs, review recorded output and coordinate equipment projects, downtime and safety incidents.
The Production workspace brings unfinished batches to the top, followed by historical results and supporting work. Equipment projects track installations and improvements; production batches consume materials and create finished stock.
Start with Current Operations
Open Manufacturing → Production and use the batch work queue to find a batch by number or product. Filter by line or status, and open the batch to review materials and its next available action. Open work includes planned, released, running and held batches across all dates. Changing the historical reporting period does not hide unfinished work.
Creating a Batch
Select New production batch, choose the output product and production method, and review quantities, input lots and wastage before saving. Set the batch status deliberately: saving a completed batch records stock movement immediately; a planned or released batch retains a material plan for later completion.
Batch Statuses
- Planned: review the material plan, then release the batch.
- Released: ready to start.
- In progress: production is running; complete the run or put it on hold.
- On hold: paused; resume when ready.
- Completed: material consumption and finished stock have been recorded.
- Cancelled: the batch is closed without consuming its planned materials.
Completing Production
Open a running batch and select Complete production. Review the output quantity in the confirmation and optionally record measured run time. Completing the batch consumes its planned material quantities and creates the finished-goods lot in a workspace storage location. Expired stock, unreleased QC stock and quantities reserved for customer orders cannot be consumed.
Products requiring quality control create an output lot in PENDING_QC with an inspection. The batch remains completed while quality control determines whether the lot can become available. QC lot status is separate from batch status.
Reading Production Results
Select a 7-, 30- or 90-day period and an optional production line. Completed output is grouped by measurement unit: kilograms and pieces are never added together. Target attainment compares actual output with positive recorded targets on completed batches; it is not quality yield. Run-time coverage shows how many batches have measurements. The run-time-to-schedule ratio is not OEE or capacity utilization.
Downtime includes the portion of each recorded stop overlapping the period, including elapsed time for open stops. Safety uses incident dates and the affected line; packaging uses record creation dates and the related production line. Expand the additional details for products, scrap entries, affected safety areas and recent batches. Missing records are not evidence that an operation occurred without losses.
Equipment and Projects
Open Equipment & projects to manage installations and improvement work. Track dates, priority, budget and expenses. Add steps to the project work plan: checking steps updates progress automatically, and the first completed step starts a not-started project. All steps must be finished before completing a project. You still confirm project completion explicitly. Projects without steps can use manual progress.
Expense entries update project spending automatically. Budget and spending use the workspace currency. Project summaries include all matching records, not just the current list page. Equipment projects do not create inventory stock and are shown separately from production performance.
Downtime and Safety
Use Line downtime to log a stop. Leave its end time blank while the line is stopped. When it is running again, select End downtime; the duration is saved and the production report refreshes. Use Safety incidents to record and track incidents, optionally assigning the affected production line. Reopening an incident clears its resolved timestamp.