A station is a place where production work happens, an assembly bench, a machine, a finishing area, that a batch order's route passes through. Stations are how a production process is mapped onto your real shop floor, so a build is not just a recipe but a sequence of places and steps.
What you will learn
- What a station represents
- How a route sequences work through stations
- How stations tie to a location
How it behaves
A station is a simple record, a code, name, description, the location it sits in, and an active flag, but its role is structural. A batch order's route chains its steps through stations in order, each with a duration, and stock can be consumed or produced at a step. So a station is a node in the production flow: you model where each stage of a build takes place, and the route walks a batch through them in sequence.
Good practice
- A station is where work happens; the route is the order it happens in.
- Tie stations to a location so production maps onto your real premises.
- Keep stations meaningful – one per real work area, so routes read like the floor.
Related
- Reference: Batch Order (which routes through stations)
- Reference: Locations