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Design a single manufacturing routing for several items in the same family. In Bold, conditions show or hide operations, materials, instructions, or inspections according to the manufactured item’s properties. See Recipes and versions to understand how conditions apply within a recipe. You can apply conditions in four parts of the recipe:

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Apply conditions to operations

Use them when an entire stage applies only to certain item variants.
Example: the Painting operation should activate only if the family’s Finish property requires painting. If the customer orders a bicycle frame with a polished aluminum finish, the system skips this stage.

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Apply conditions to inputs

Use them when a material is consumed only for some items in the family.
Example: configure two material inputs in the same operation: one for Red paint and another for Blue paint. By conditioning each input on Color, the MO only loads, shows, and deducts from inventory the color that bicycle requires.

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Apply conditions to steps

Use them when a work instruction should appear only for certain variants.
Example: during assembly, you decide only bicycles with premium finish require an additional Apply protective wax step. For standard models, this step does not appear on the operator’s screen.

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Apply conditions to inspections

Use them to adapt inspection to the manufactured variant.
Example: a water pump pressure test at 15 bar activates only if Model equals Professional / Hospitality. The operator performs this test only for a machine intended for cafés.

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Add a condition

Source (Property / Production order context): indicates where Bold should find the data for evaluating the rule.
  • Property: item characteristic, such as material, color, or size.
  • Production order context: data from a specific order, such as requester, quantity, or notes.
Property/Field: select the family property or manufacturing-order context field to compare. Operator: defines how the source is compared with the expected value, such as Equal to, Not equal to, Contains, Starts with, or Ends with. Value/Option: enter the value the condition must meet. For example: property Material, operator Equal to, and value Carbon.