Production Workflows are a powerful tool to speed up order preparation and job planning while maintaining process quality and consistency on your production floor. Production Workflows enable you to create lists of standard and customized production processes, each with its own individual steps and work instructions. Utilizing Production Workflows will ensure every step in your production process is scheduled and tracked.

For help with managing your pre-production steps, check out our Prep Workflows!

Creating a New Production Workflow

To create a new Production Workflow, navigate to "Plan" > "Workflows". Click on the Add Workflow button. Give your production workflow a Name and select its Type.

Production Workflow Types:

• Additive Manufacturing: Low-to-high volume, production-grade, functional, or prototype parts.

• Specimen: Specimen parts are generally produced for quality assurance, testing, or one-offs. Specimen Workflows are used within a parent Additive Manufacturing Workflow and will assume the printing step of that parent workflow.

Adding Workflow Steps

To add a workflow step, click the Add Steps button. Important Note:

Once workflow steps have been added, continue editing the workflow by using drag and drop to rearrange the steps (if needed). This applies to the workflow page, editing a line item workflow, and changing a workflow for a piece that is in production.

Adding steps is a two-part process:

1. Select a Printer Type from the list of Available Printer Types. Once selected:

2. Select one or more Post-Processing and/or Shipping steps.

3. Click Save to continue.

Adding Workflow-Specific Work Instructions

To create a specific checklist of Work Instructions for this workflow, after saving your set of steps, click the plus icon next to the specific Workflow step.

You will be presented with the Work Instructions window, which allows you to specify work instructions specific to the Workflow you are creating. You can edit the description of the process step and add a URL to access any additional instructions or specification documentation accessible via the web. For more guidance on creating individual work instructions, please read here.

Adding a Specimen to the Workflow

A specimen (testing coupon) and workflow may be an additional requirement in some additive processes. To add a Specimen to the Workflow, click the "Add Specimen" button. Select a CAD model from the model library, indicate the quantity, and select from the list of available specimen workflows. Click Add to continue. Click Save to return to the Workflows page. The Workflow is now available to use.

Using a Workflow

To assign a Workflow to a Line Item, select the appropriate Workflow while adding a new CAD file to your Order.

When you create your first Run using the selected Workflow, each process step will be automatically scheduled. These runs are now visible on your Queues Gantt chart and on the Runs page.

Do you have specific workflow requirements in your Additive Manufacturing processes? We would love to hear from you. Contact us at support@authentise.com.