Introducing Production Routing: Give Every Part Its Own Path Through Your Shop

Not every part in an order should follow the same production path. A standard print and a structural part going into a regulated assembly have different requirements. A rush job and a standard delivery need different steps. A part you manufacture every month for the same customer deserves a consistent, approved sequence every time.

Production Routing in Phasio gives you that control. Every part gets its own work order with its own ordered sequence of operations — its routing — tracked independently from start to finish.

GETTING STARTED

Production Routing works around three things: work orders, routings, and routing templates.

A work order is a single production run for a part. Its routing is the ordered list of operations it moves through, snapshotted at the moment the work order is created. A routing template is a saved, reusable sequence you can author on a part specification and approve before it reaches the floor.

For shops that don't need per-part authoring, automatic mode derives the routing fresh from your current process configuration every time — no templates required.

Full documentation: https://docs.phas.io/production-routing/overview

WHERE PRODUCTION ROUTING MAKES A DIFFERENCE

The repeat customer order. You manufacture the same part for a customer every month. A routing template captures the exact sequence of operations for that part, gets approved once, and becomes the default. Every future run follows the same steps in the same order, regardless of who schedules it. When the customer reorders in six months, the routing is already there and approved.

The rush job. A customer needs parts by tomorrow. Your standard routing includes a full post-processing sequence that takes two days. You schedule a new work order for the urgent batch with a different routing that skips the non-critical steps, while the standard order runs its normal path. Both work orders exist on the same order, tracked independently.

The mixed order with one special part. An order comes in with eight parts. Seven are standard. One is going into a structural application and needs an additional inspection step. Automatic mode handles the seven without any setup. The eighth gets a custom routing with the extra check added at scheduling. Each is tracked separately.

The new operation that needs to reach everything. You add a new powder removal station to your process. In automatic mode, that step appears on every future run automatically — you don't touch individual part configurations. For a shop with hundreds of parts, process changes propagate without any extra work.

The regulated environment. You work with customers who require documented sign-off before production starts. Enable the routing template approval gate and no part can be scheduled without an approved template in place. Unapproved parts are blocked at scheduling, not discovered on the floor.

WHY IT MATTERS

Production routing makes the distinction between parts that need careful, consistent handling and parts that can follow a standard flow — and it handles both without requiring you to manage everything by hand.

Shops that run high volumes of standard jobs can leave everything in automatic mode and let process changes propagate naturally. Shops with repeat, curated, or regulated parts can author and approve routing templates that lock in exactly how each part is made.

The floor gets clarity: every work order has a defined sequence, and completed steps are frozen so there's no ambiguity about what's already been done. Operations leads get visibility. Quality teams get an approval mechanism. Everyone works from the same record.