## Designate a work center

A work center is a location whose **Type** is set to **Workcenter**. Because there is no separate work-center record, you set one up by creating or editing a location. See the [Locations and work centers overview](https://docs.firstresonance.io/build-hardware/locations-and-work-centers#work-centers) for how work centers fit the location model.

1. In the **Production** section of the sidebar, click **Factory**.
2. Create a new location with **Create Location**, or open an existing one.
3. Set **Type** to **Workcenter**, then save. (On a new location, click **Create Location**; on an existing one, the change saves automatically.)

Give work centers names that distinguish them from broad areas. “Final Assembly” is an area, while “Final Assembly Cell A” is a work center. Conflating the two muddles scheduling.

## Run work at a work center

Once a location is a work center, operators can execute against it:

- From the work center’s detail page, click **Go to Execution** to open its run-step queue.
- From the run workspace, use the **Workcenter** shortcut to open a work center’s queue. The picker groups work centers under **My Workcenter**, **Recent**, and **All Workcenters**.

The queue buckets the work center’s run steps into **Overdue**, **Now**, **Next**, and **Blocked**. For how operators work this queue, see [Run steps at a work center](https://docs.firstresonance.io/build-hardware/runs-and-execution/workcenter-execution).