Manufacturing
The Manufacturing area is used to manage production. This involves the design and engineering work that will specify how and when items are handled, the components and resources that go into creating an end item, and the routings that define the process requirements of a given produced item.
The Manufacturing area also provides tools to schedule production activities, manually or automatically pull production components for consumption, record time consumption, post finished operations that do not qualify as finished output but as scrapped material, and so on.
The following screenshot shows the main page of the Manufacturing area:
Product design
The product design starts on the item card. You need to create one item card for each end item that you want to produce and also one item card for each component that you need to consume to obtain the end product.
For each component you have to specify whether you purchase it, assemble it, or produce it. You also need to...