Assignments
An operation meets the minimum planning requirements when it has a workstation, a target date and any required tool. Stock status separately indicates material availability.
The station, date and tool can come from a manual action, sequencing or an applied production plan. The plan does not assign employees: an employee’s operational assignment is recorded when starting work or assigning them to a group.
Operation groups
An operation group lets you work on several operations together. It is useful when they share a station, employee, materials, setup or pace of progress.
A group does not remove individual operations. Each operation retains its traceability, progress, consumption and checks.
Group actions do not apply individual start and quantity restrictions, including when executed from work mode. Creating the group or adding operations requires manufacturing order write permission; the operator can then work with the existing group. When creating a group or adding an operation, review the conditions shown in the dialog before confirming. Grouping is a management decision about how to execute that work together.
You need at least two operations to create a group. All must be Planned or Paused, have a pending quantity, belong to the same station and not belong to another group.
Common statuses
Group statuses help you operate on the shop floor. Each operation’s statuses continue to explain its actual progress.
Read Manufacturing statuses to compare groups, operations, orders and plans.
Relationship with work mode
In Work mode, the operator sees active, recent or available operations according to the employee, station, area and assignments. When they start, pause, resume or record progress, Bold updates execution and preserves who performed each action. If work stops, record a pause reason to explain the interruption.Design rules
- Assign a station before executing the operation.
- Select tools when the operation requires specific characteristics.
- Group only operations your team actually executes together.
- Review checks and stock before starting critical work.
- Do not use groups to hide operations that should be measured separately.