> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.bold-factory.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Manufacture products

> Configure recipes, resources, orders, operations, consumption, production, and shop floor tracking.

The manufacturing area turns needs into executable work. It connects recipes, resources, orders, operations, inspections, consumption, outputs, and productivity data.

## Recommended steps

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  <Card title="Prepare work centers and machines" icon="settings-2" href="/en/guides/manufacturing/prepare-work-centers-and-machines">
    Organize areas, workstations, and tools to execute operations.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Define the manufacturing process" icon="book-open" href="/en/guides/manufacturing/design-the-manufacturing-steps">
    Define operations, inputs, outputs, steps, inspections, versions, and restrictions.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Define production shifts" icon="alarm-clock" href="/en/guides/manufacturing/define-production-shifts">
    Define when the plant and its resources are available to plan operations.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Create pause reasons" icon="pause" href="/en/guides/manufacturing/create-pause-reasons">
    Classify why an operation or group of operations stops.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Decide what to manufacture" icon="factory" href="/en/guides/planning/decide-what-to-manufacture">
    Distinguish real urgencies from suggestions that can wait, be grouped, or be discarded.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Manage manufacturing orders" icon="chart-column-big" href="/en/guides/manufacturing/manage-manufacturing-orders">
    Launch, view, block, or cancel work the plant needs to execute.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Modify manufacturing orders" icon="file-pen-line" href="/en/guides/manufacturing/modify-manufacturing-orders">
    Edit the workflow when an unexpected shop floor event occurs.
  </Card>
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<Card title="Sequence orders" icon="route" href="/en/guides/manufacturing/sequence-orders">
  Order operations so the plant executes work in the correct priority.
</Card>

<Card title="Execute shop floor operations" icon="pen-tool" href="/en/guides/manufacturing/execute-shop-floor-operations">
  Record progress, consumption, inspections, pauses, and production from **work mode**.
</Card>


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