Processes that are grouped in production areas, as we can see in Areas Configuration, do not have any additional restriction. Areas are only a visual group and these groups can be changed anytime without any negative consequences.

However, when processes are linked through the field 'Next' as shown in process configuration, it is indicating which processes follow the current process in the production process. In this way, a production line is defined which is different from the visually configured area in areas configuration. By using the field 'Next', the configured line has the following restrictions or functions:

    • All processes of this line are always producing the same result.
    • If we manually introduce a status to a process within the line, we are allowed to spread this status to all processes of the line (if they are marked to propagate at the PSR relations configuration) or we can simply transfer it as a dependency.