# ION Factory OS

## Overview

- Welcome to ION: Supercharge your manufacturing with ION.

## Features

### Procedures
- Instructions for work to be done
- Add step attributes to categorize your procedure operations
- Manage complex dependencies in ion using the Procedure dependency manager
- Create custom attributes for Procedures
- Assign and enforce parts to be installed from your mBOM to a particular step in a procedure
- Take your procedures to the next level with nested steps

### Runs
- Runs are instances of activities in your manufacturing process
- This page outlines all of the changes in ION's new run execution view, rolled out 4/24/24.
- How to leverage batching to supercharge your manufacturing.
- A view focused around a single workcenter to streamline medium and high-volume work
- Discover the functionality of splitting WIP through an issue ticket to help with splitting inventory on a run when an issue with some parts is detected.

### Parts Library
- Track your parts as well as how and where you use those parts in your manufacturing program.
- Trace the genealogy of your build in REAL-TIME.

### Inventory Management
- ION Inventory allows you to keep track of your inventory, including locations, suppliers, quantities, serials, lots, and more.
- Understand and initiate inventory splitting and merging.
- Use automations to move inventory throughout your factory efficiently.

### Purchasing
- Gain full traceability from purchases into inventory.
- Cost-based approval thresholds and team/role-based approval workflows.

### Quality
- The most critical aspect of all manufacturing operations.
- Capture non-conformances on your production floor.
- Customize your issue disposition workflows according to your organizational needs.

### API and Integrations
- Information about the ion GraphQL API and example queries.
- Create relationships between your internal parts and suppliers to effectively communicate.

## Automated Systems
- Deploy configurable automations to speed up your factory according to your organizational needs.
- Automatically assign issues upon issue creation.
- Automatically send emails to the supplier with the purchase PDF attached.

## Training and Support
- Repository of recommendations for how to use ION to maximize value.
- Video walkthroughs of ION.
- Chat support for ION.