An example prompt for a production tracker

Build a work order and traceability app for a food manufacturer. It needs: plants and sites, shop-floor roles and pin clock-in, items, boms and routings, engineering change control, work orders and operation reporting and material inventory. Rule that must always hold: edits create a new draft version under engineering change control; release makes it immutable with an effective date; work orders store the version they started with. Leave out for now: no machine control, PLC programming, interlocks or safety functions and no finite-capacity optimiser or APS in phase 1; manual sequencing with warnings.

Replace the first sentence with your own idea. The list of needs stays useful whatever the niche, because it comes from what a production tracker has to do.

• Build a production tracking system for a furniture workshop. Start with plants and sites and shop-floor roles and pin clock-in, and add items, boms and routings once those work.
• Build a lot genealogy tool for a small electronics assembler. People should be able to change a BOM or routing safely with approval and effectivity.

Forge AI picks a reference architecture from how you describe the app. These phrases point to a production tracker: manufacturing execution system, mes, shop floor, work orders, bill of materials, bom, production planning and oee.

• Released BOMs and routings are immutable versions; work orders freeze their version.
• Genealogy as insert-only edges between lots.
• Device integration is ingest only.
• Offline-tolerant operator reporting with client ids.

This is a reference design for the category, not a promise that every item is generated today. Built-ins such as background jobs, file uploads and search are rolling out; email sent from your app is coming soon, so anything here that needs it is something you add yourself for now.

• OPC UA / MQTT gateway for direct machine connectivity: needs on-prem gateway software and a DMZ; HTTP batch ingest covers phase 1.
• Finite-capacity scheduler: manual sequencing is enough at launch.
• ERP bidirectional sync connectors: webhook intake covers orders and items first.
• Time-series database for machine data: partitioned Postgres rollups suffice at phase-1 volume.

How detailed should a prompt for a production tracker be?

Name the users, the main objects, one rule that must always hold and one thing to leave out. The plan fills in the rest, and you can change it before generation.

Which words tell Forge64 this is a production tracker?

Phrases such as manufacturing execution system, mes, shop floor and work orders point to this category.

Can I change the app after the first build?

Yes. Describe the change in plain English and Forge AI edits the app; the quality gate checks the code again.

• How to build a production tracker
• Production tracker architecture
• Production tracker security checklist
• Production tracker scaling checklist
• Often combined: inventory system
• Often combined: approval workflow app
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