Manufacturing Overview

The Manufacturing section is used to create work orders, issue component materials, record labor and completions, review BOM and router structures, and run production traceability reports.

What Manufacturing is for

Use Manufacturing when a part will be produced through a PAX work order. The module connects production planning, component issue, labor entry, scrap tracking, outside-service cost, WIP cost, finished-good receipt, and lot traceability.

Manufacturing is not where users manually adjust inventory to force a build result. Use the work order workflow so PAX can keep material usage, work order status, WIP cost, finished-good lots, and traceability in sync.

Who can see Manufacturing

The Manufacturing dashboard section is visible to users with one of these roles:

• admin
• executive
• manufacturing

Some work order records can also be read by other operational roles through shared screens, but the Manufacturing dashboard card itself is controlled by the roles above.

Manufacturing-only users do not see labor wage-sensitive cost fields in the work order detail and completion screens. Admin and executive users can see the full labor, overhead, and total actual cost details.

Dashboard options

The Manufacturing section has these dashboard buttons:

Typical work order flow

Most manufacturing activity follows this order:

1. Create the work order from Dashboard > Manufacturing > Work Orders > New Work Order.
2. Review material availability before saving the work order.
3. Issue materials to the work order from Issue Materials. Issuing materials moves component inventory into WIP and changes a Draft work order to Released.
4. Record labor as work is performed, or record labor during completion.
5. Record any component scrap and replacement material when applicable.
6. Use Save Partial for a partial receipt, or Complete WO when the work order should be closed and remaining WIP should move to finished goods.
7. Use traceability reports to follow finished-good lots or component lots through production and shipment.

Do not manually change a work order to Completed to bypass the completion process. The completion workflow is what creates the production completion record, finished-good lot receipt, and WIP-to-FG accounting behavior.

What happens behind the scenes

Manufacturing workflows can affect several areas at once:

• Work order creation creates a Draft work order and labor/outside-service operations from the router.
• Material issue reduces selected inventory lots or inventory records, creates or updates work order material lines, posts material cost into WIP, and changes Draft work orders to Released.
• Labor entry creates work order time entries. Labor and overhead posting is handled by work order labor automation.
• Completion creates work order completion and completion lot records. Completion also receives finished goods into inventory and transfers WIP cost to finished goods through work order completion automation.
• Scrap can either be replaced from another lot or left unreplaced. Replacement material increases WIP. Unreplaced scrap reduces the achievable finished-good quantity and causes existing WIP cost to be absorbed by fewer finished units.
• Traceability reports read the work order material, completion lot, shipment, invoice, and outside-service scrap records created by these workflows.

Related docs

• Work Orders Overview
• New Work Order Overview
• View Work Orders Overview
• Issue Materials Overview
• Log Labor / WIP to FG Overview
• BOMs Overview
• Routers Overview
• Manufacturing Reports Overview