Production

Production is where you make things from parts: recipes say what goes into each product, Ordryx tells you how many you can make, and making takes the parts out of stock and puts the finished units in.

Production needs Inventory: the parts and the products are ordinary items there. The Planner and Contracting build on Production.

The shop's word for making

Ordryx says Build, Make or Bake on every screen, as the shop chose when it was set up. A bakery bakes, a kit maker builds. This page says "make". If your shop chose another word, your buttons say Build something or Bake something where this page says Make something, and so on.

Who can do what

Each role has a level for Production (see People and roles):

Production settings need Settings in your role.

Recipes

A recipe says what goes into one of something you make: its parts, and how much of each. With a recipe, Ordryx knows how many you can make, takes the parts when you make it, and plans what to make for orders.

Open Production › Recipes. On the left is every product with a recipe, with the number you can make now. Pick one to see its recipe on the right:

• Can be made now: how many the parts on hand make, at the place parts are taken from. It also says which part runs out first.
• The table lists each Part, the amount Per one (or Per batch), what is On hand, and how many each part alone Makes. The part that runs out first is marked, with a link to order more, print more, or add its own recipe.
• What if I need: type a number and press Check. Ordryx says whether stock and parts cover it, or which parts are short and by how much.
• Goes into and Uses parts shared with show other products that share these parts.

Switch to By part to look from the other side: each part, how much is on hand, and which products use it.

Items with no recipe are listed under No recipe yet at the bottom of the list. Parts made on 3D printers are listed under Printed here: they don't need a recipe (see Printers).

Add or change a recipe

You need the Manage level for this.

1. Make sure the product and its parts exist as items in Inventory.
2. In Production › Recipes, press New recipe.
3. Under Which item is it for?, pick the product, then press Next.
4. In This recipe makes, say how many one batch makes. Leave it at 1 if you think in single units.
5. Use Add a component to find each part by name or code, and type its amount. Amounts are for the whole batch.
6. Press Save recipe.

To change a recipe later, pick it and press Edit recipe. Changes apply to everything made from now on. Work orders already sent to a contractor keep the recipe they went out with.

Batches

Some things are made in batches: one pot of soap makes 12 bars. Set This recipe makes to 12 and type the amounts for the whole pot. Ordryx works out the amount for each bar and rounds only once, when you make them. Show recipe amounts in Production settings chooses whether work orders and job sheets show amounts Per batch and per unit, Per batch or Per unit.

Sub-assemblies

A part can be something you make too, with its own recipe: a strap that goes into a bag. Ordryx marks it sub-assembly. When you make the bag, Ordryx uses finished straps on hand first, then makes the rest from the straps' own parts, all the way down. The can make number counts those parts too.

Made to order

Tick Made to order in the recipe when a sub-assembly also sells on its own. Other products then use its parts, never the finished ones on the shelf. Those stay for its own orders.

Delete a recipe, or stop making it

In Edit recipe, Delete recipe removes it. Jobs and work orders already making it still finish. The item keeps its stock and history.

If you just no longer make the product, choose Stop making it instead. The recipe is kept and the item is no longer marked as made, so the Plan sells what's left from stock and plans no more. This needs the right to edit items in Inventory.

Make something

There are two ways to make something:

• Made already: you've finished them. Ordryx takes the parts and adds the finished units in one step.
• Make it a job: the work goes on the Jobs board for someone. The parts are taken when someone starts it, and the finished units go into stock only after the check.

To do either:

1. Press Make something (on Recipes, Jobs or History), or Make here on a recipe.
2. Under What, pick the product.
3. Under How many, set the number. The quick choices help: One batch, Most I can and For orders.
4. If you have more than one location, pick where Parts come from.
5. Check the list of parts it takes and what's left after.
6. Under How, choose Made already or Make it a job.
7. Press Make (with the number) or Make a job for (with the number).

If you're short of parts, Ordryx says which, and offers ways forward: make what the parts allow now, move parts from another place, make the sub-assemblies first, make it a job that waits, or open Reorder to order the missing parts.

Jobs

Production › Jobs is the board of things being made in the shop. Each job has a code like J-0036. Work sent to contractors is in Contracting, not here.

A job moves through four columns:

Use Board or List to change the view, Showing to see Mine, Everyone or one person's jobs, and the search box to find a job, product or person. On a phone, the columns become tabs, and Scan job sheet opens a job from the QR code on its printed sheet.

Work a job

1. Start: on the job's card, press Start. Pick Who's making it. Ordryx shows each part and whether it's all here, then press Start with the number. The parts are taken now.
2. If a part is short, you choose: Start all, wait for the missing part, or Start only what the parts make now. The rest stays in Queued as its own job.
3. While it's In progress: on the job's page (or its card on a phone), +1 done and −1 done keep count. + More parts takes extra parts you used (a part broke, you used more). Change how many… on the job's page makes the job bigger or smaller.
4. Finish: when they're all made, press Finish. The job moves to QC.
5. Check: press Check, set How many passed?, and press Add … to stock. Only now does the finished stock go up, by the ones that passed.

A job that started short shows Waiting on parts. When the part comes in (received, printed or counted), Ordryx takes it by itself, as often as Production settings say. You can also press Parts came in? Take them now. A waiting job can't be finished until its parts are taken.

When some don't pass

At the check, if fewer pass than were made, Ordryx asks why they didn't pass Pick one of the shop's reasons or type your own. The parts in the failed units are used up: they don't go back to stock.

A job's page

Click a job's code to open its page. It shows what to do next, the parts it takes or took, how far it has come (So far), and About it: how many, when, the due date and the recipe. From here you can:

• Assign it to someone, or change who.
• Set a Due date.
• Print job sheet: a paper sheet with a QR code to scan on the shop floor.
• Cancel job: while it's Queued or In progress. Anything the job took goes back to stock.

The Jobs tab in the menu shows a number when jobs are waiting to be checked.

History

Production › History is the record of everything made: by day, with who made it, how many, and what the parts cost (if you can see costs). Filter by Product, by who made it, or by period, and download it with CSV. Things that came back from contractors are counted beside it for comparison.

Click a line to see the parts it took. From there:

• Make … more makes the same again.
• Undo this run takes the finished units back out of stock and puts the parts back. Use it only if it never really happened. If the stock is just wrong, change the stock in Inventory instead. Ordryx warns you when the record is more than a day old. Both steps stay in History: nothing is deleted.

Production settings

Press the gear in Production's header to open Production settings:

• Put first, by default and Work order size: how the Planner orders and splits its suggestions.
• Take parts from: with more than one location, where making and jobs take their parts and put what they make. Blank means the main location.
• Parts for waiting jobs: how often a job waiting on parts looks for them: Every minute, Every 5 minutes, or When the Jobs board opens.
• Show recipe amounts: per batch, per unit, or both, on work orders and job sheets.
• When a job check fails: the reasons offered at the check. Add, rename, reorder and switch them off here. A reason already used on a check can't be deleted, only switched off.

On an item's page

In Inventory, a made item's page has a Recipe card: what the parts on hand make, what runs out first, and Open recipe. A part that isn't made shows Used in among its details.

For a step-by-step walk through making one batch, see Make a batch.