Parts and Trace

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.

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. Following is a high-level overview of the actions and concepts involved, and each part is further detailed in the subsections to this page and associated API pages.

1. Creating and managing inventory (API)

2. Issuing parts in kits

3. Installing parts on an aBOM (API)

4. Returning parts to inventory (API)

Flow of parts moving from inventory, to a part kit, installed during execution, and returning to inventory.

Archiving a Part

When archiving a part, ION will prevent any new inventory of that part from being created. Existing inventory will remain unaffected by archiving a part. This will also remove archived parts from dropdowns (i.e. part selection on a run or purchase order). You may unarchive a part by finding them using this filter on the parts library page.