Manufacturing
Manufacturing (the Manufacturing Yoke) is an Enterprise app that turns your workspace into a discrete-manufacturing shop floor: multi-level bills of materials and routings, work orders and WIP, material requirements planning, procurement, standard costing, a full Lean / Six Sigma quality suite, controlled engineering change, and end-to-end serial / lot genealogy. Every module reads one per-tenant database with an append-only event log, so a serial number traces from raw receipt through every operation to the shipped unit, and the numbers the floor posts are the numbers your accountant closes on.
Pricing: included with the Enterprise plan at no extra charge.
Requirements
- Enterprise plan. Manufacturing is an Enterprise-tier app.
- Inventory core. Manufacturing builds on the free Inventory and Logistics core — items, locations, and movements — so on-hand stock, receipts, and issues stay in one place.
- Yoke Ledger (recommended) so receiving and costing post to your General Ledger.
- Insight and BI Insight add-ons if you want the packaged manufacturing dashboards (see Reporting with BI Insight).
Installing
- Go to Logic Cores (sidebar → Logic Cores).
- Find Manufacturing in the Yokes group.
- Click Install.
- Choose whether to load demo data (a sample product, its BOM and routing, a few work orders, and quality records) so you can explore the app immediately. You can delete it at any time.
- Done. The Manufacturing section appears in your workspace sidebar.
Installing unlocks the Manufacturing navigation group; uninstalling hides it again. Manufacturing is available only on Enterprise tenants — the listing is visible but not installable on lower tiers.
What you get
Once installed, the Manufacturing section groups these workspaces:
| Workspace | What it does |
|---|---|
| BOM & Routings | Multi-level bills of materials with effective-revision control, and routings that define each operation, work center, and standard time. |
| Production | Release, issue, backflush, and complete work orders on a live board. The effective revision is shown on every order so the floor always builds the released design. |
| WIP | Work-in-process valuation that moves with the work — material, labor, and overhead accumulate per order and settle on completion. |
| MRP | Low-level-code netting over demand, on-hand, and open orders, producing planned make and buy orders with clear pegging. |
| Procurement | Purchase orders, receiving, and an approved-vendor list (AVL) per part. Buy signals flow straight from MRP; receipts post to inventory and to a draft AP bill. |
| Costing | Rolled-up standard cost from the BOM and routing, with purchase-price and production variance surfaced per order. |
| SPC | Statistical process control charts that flag out-of-control signals on a monitored characteristic. |
| Improvement | DMAIC improvement projects with corrective / preventive action (CAPA) tracking. |
| Defects | Defect capture with DPMO and Pareto analysis to rank what to fix first. |
| OEE | Overall equipment effectiveness by shift and work center. |
| Engineering Changes | Controlled engineering change orders (ECO) against BOMs and routings, with an effective-revision cutover and a full audit trail. |
| Recall / Genealogy | Forward-and-back traceability and the device-history-record view — every serial and lot links to the components consumed and the operations performed. |
| Reports | Packaged manufacturing dashboards on BI Insight (see below). |
Quality and traceability
Quality is a first-class part of the app, not a bolt-on:
- SPC charts monitor a characteristic and raise an out-of-control signal in place; the signal can open a DMAIC project.
- DMAIC + CAPA track an improvement through Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control with corrective and preventive actions recorded against it.
- DPMO and Pareto turn raw defect counts into a ranked view of where the biggest quality losses are.
- OEE breaks equipment effectiveness into availability, performance, and quality by shift and work center.
- Serial / lot genealogy assembles a device-history record for any unit — the components consumed, the operations performed, and the people who signed off — in one place, ready for an audit or a recall.
Engineering change (ECO)
Changes to a released BOM or routing go through a controlled change order rather than an in-place edit. An ECO carries an effective revision; until it's released, the floor keeps building the current revision, and once it cuts over, every new work order picks up the new design. The event log records who changed what, when, and why, so the change history is audit-ready by construction.
Reporting with BI Insight
Manufacturing pairs with BI Insight for governed reporting. With the Insight and BI Insight add-ons enabled, three persona dashboards bring the manufacturing data together without exporting anything:
- Ops Control Tower — work-order status and labor, WIP by material, and planning coverage for the plant manager and production lead.
- Quality & Compliance — defect Pareto and severity, OEE by work center, and engineering-change activity for the quality team.
- Cost & Value — procurement spend, WIP value, and cost / variance for finance and operations leadership.
Each dashboard reads the same governed semantic models the rest of your Insight reporting uses, so what a chart shows is exactly what's approved for reporting — nothing more. Build your own alongside them in the BI Insight dashboard builder.
Works with your other apps
- Inventory Yoke — the parts Manufacturing consumes and produces are the same items Inventory tracks; receipts, issues, and completions move real on-hand stock.
- Yoke Ledger + GL Pack — receiving posts to draft AP bills and costing posts to the General Ledger, so month-end close runs against the numbers the floor produced.
- CRM Suite — link finished goods to your product catalog so quotes and orders reference what you build.
Building on it
Every lifecycle in Manufacturing runs on FastYoke's FSM Designer, so you can extend it without code:
- Add quality gates — require an inspection to pass before a work order can complete.
- Add custom fields — attach a supplier reference, a test result, or any field you need via Admin → Annotation pages.
- Route engineering-change approvals — model your change-review board as an FSM with role-gated transitions and a full event-log trail.
For deeper needs — machine-signal (OPC-UA / MTConnect) capture, MES-style operator terminals, or finite-capacity scheduling — use the typed SDK. See the SDK reference.
Removing the app
Uninstalling hides the Manufacturing navigation group and removes the app's demo records. Records you created after install are governed by the cleanup settings on each record type's page.