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Features

• Procedures: Instructions for work to be done
• Steps
• Content
• Datagrid
• Fields
• Attributes: Add step attributes to categorize your procedure operations
• Dependencies: You can manage complex dependencies in ion using the Procedure dependency manager
• Part-Procedure Relationship
• Attributes: Create custom attributes for Procedures
• Standard Steps
• Installation Requirements (Beta): Assign and enforce parts to be installed from your mBOM to a particular step in a procedure
• Nested Steps and Nested Standard Steps: Take your procedures to the next level.
• Procedure Best Practices
• Runs: Runs are instances of activities in your manufacturing process
• Run Execution Overview: This page outlines all of the changes in IONs new run execution view, rolled out 4/24/24.
• Runs And Step States: States step
• Batching Runs: How to leverage batching to supercharge your manufacturing.
• Workcenter execution: A view focused around a single workcenter to streamline medium and high-volume work
• Split Inventory on a Run: Discover the functionality of splitting WIP through an issue ticket. This helps with splitting inventory on a run when an issue with some parts is detected.
• Redlines
• Export run data: Run data can be exported from the Run summary
• Scheduling runs: How to schedule runs in ion and view your factory schedule
• Time Tracking
• Attributes
• Outside Processing
• Runs Best Practices
• Parts Library: ION allows you to keep track of your parts as well as keep track of how and where you use those parts in your manufacturing program.
• As-built Bill of Materials (aBOM): Trace the genealogy of your build in REAL-TIME.
• Editing aBOM build requirements: Edit the requirements of the aBOM called "build requirements"
• aBOM Beta Changes
• aBOM actions for developers
• Inventory: ION Inventory allows you to keep track of your inventory, including locations, suppliers, quantities, serials, lots, and more.
• Inventory status
• Inventory splitting: Understand and initiate inventory splitting
• Inventory merging (org setting)
• Inventory merging (legacy): Merge inventories together based on physical and data conditions as seen below to simplify inventory management in your factory inventory.
• Inventory scrapping
• Kitting
• Inventory Movement Automations: ION has a few, high confidence inventory movement automations built in to allow you to quickly move inventory throughout your factory and reliably keep your data clean and up to date.
• Manufacturing bill of materials (mBOM)
• mBOM versions: Control changes to mBOMs with versions, with statuses and approvals
• Made on Assembly (MOA): Design your mBOM to build multiple levels of an assembly on the same work instructions.
• Part Substitutes
• Reference designators: Define positions in the mBOM that are useful for installation traceability
• Part Attributes: Part attributes allow you to add custom fields to the parts in your part library
• Part revision interchangeability: ION supports part revision interchangeability out-of-the-box
• Supplier Part Numbers & Purchase Unit Conversions: Create relationships between your internal parts and suppliers that help effectively communicate supplier part numbers and supplier units of measure
• Kitting and Inventory Fulfilment
• Kit Statuses and Workflows: The kit has predefined statuses to help you speed up your inventory delivery
• Inventory requests
• Kitting and runs
• Fulfilling Multiple Kits
• Kanban Kitting
• Purchasing: Gain full traceability from purchases into inventory
• Purchase Orders
• Types of Purchases: Purchase any type of good or service through the use of parts and purchases.
• Purchase Order Approvals: Cost based approval thresholds and team/role based approval workflows
• Purchase Order FAQs: This is a list of FAQs for Purchase Orders in ION.
• Supplier Part Numbers & Unit Conversions
• PO Requirements, Terms, and Quality Clauses
• PO lines editability changes: Changes coming the week of July 28th to simplify the current PO line and PO status experience.
• Receiving/Inspection: Get your parts from dock to stock with ION Receipts and Inspection runs
• Outside Processing
• Consigned Parts
• Barcode Labels
• Templating
• ION barcode minimum sizes
• Sample templates
• Printing
• Configuring Zebra Browser Print: Instructions on how to download Zebra Browser Print and use with ION.
• Server Based Barcode Printing (PrintNode)
• Scanning: Scanning workflows are built into ion to perform actions much quicker than mouse + keyboard.
• Scan barcodes from other systems: Define custom barcode patterns so that ION can understand barcodes from other systems
• Quality: The most critical aspect to all manufacturing operations.
• Issues: Capture non-conformances on your production floor.
• Further Actions - CAPA: How You Can Handle CAPA Programs Within ION
• Issues States, Dispositions, and Resolutions: Customize your issue disposition workflows according your organizational needs
• Quality Best Practices
• Tools
• Locations
• Attributes
• Labels
• Deleting labels: Delete labels using the API
• Notifications
• Search: Navigate throughout ION Quickly
• ION Assistant: Compose GraphQL queries, retrieve data and get your questions about ION answered more quickly.
• Settings: Manage your organization and user settings in ion
• Role based access control
• Full Glossary of ION Permissions: Every permission in ION, along with a description of what they do.
• ION Actions: ION Actions is a powerful tool that allows users to create, write, update, and delete rules governing the behavior of your manufacturing processes using GraphQL.
• ION Actions Best Practices
• ION Actions examples for Quality: Build custom quality workflows based on the type of issue
• ION Actions examples for Runs and Procedures
• ION Actions examples for Supply Chain
• ION Importers
• Inventory
• Update
• Kit Items
• Locations