Carbon
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Quality, trace & ship

After production, verify quality, preserve traceability, ship the finished units, and invoice the customer.

Raise an issue

When an operator finds a defect, such as a short in the EPS wiring harness, create an Issue to record the . The issue moves from Registered to In Progress to Closed and links to the affected part and job operation.

An issue moves through its workflow (contain, correct, verify) until the fix is proven.
NCR000001, 'EPS wiring harness short detected', opened against J000001's clean room assembly operation.

Workflows & actions

Each issue follows a configured workflow, such as or a containment-only response. The workflow creates required actions as independently tracked tasks:

An issue moves Registered → In Progress → Closed, spinning up its required-action tasks along the way.
  • : prevent affected parts from proceeding. When applied to a process, it appears on the shop floor.
  • : identify and correct the root cause.
  • : prevent recurrence.
  • Verification: confirm that the correction worked.
  • Communication: update the customer.
DISPOSITION

Held material doesn't move until someone signs off.

A review determines the disposition of non-conforming assemblies: use as is, , , or return to supplier. Carbon records the decision and related actions on the issue.

Versioned procedures

Work instructions come from versioned procedures with Draft, Active, and Archived states, like . Publishing a corrective revision applies it to future jobs while in-progress jobs retain their original revision.

REVISIONS

Change the procedure once; the floor follows everywhere.

New jobs use the latest published version. In-progress jobs retain their assigned version, and each finished unit records the procedure revision used to build it.

V2 of the Structural Frame Assembly procedure, active, with V1 archived behind it.

Traceability

Carbon stores the finished unit's as a graph of and their activities. From one serial, you can trace backward to its components and material lots or forward from a lot to every unit that consumed it.

The genealogy of one finished robot, from serial number down to material lots.

Open the record or scan its QR label to identify the material in the unit and every other use of the same lots.

The full as-built genealogy for SAT-1000 serial SAT1000-SN-0001, down to the aluminium plate and reaction wheels it consumed.

Ship & invoice

Create a shipment against the . Carbon drafts lines from the outstanding quantity. If SHP000001 ships 2 of 3 ordered units, 1 remains outstanding. Post the shipment, then the 2 shipped units. Because shipping and invoicing both remain, the sales order stays "To Ship and Invoice".

After the final unit ships, the sales order moves to "To Invoice" until that unit is invoiced; it then becomes "Completed".

Posting submits the invoice. When the invoice produces journal lines, Carbon also creates a sales-invoice journal: Provisional before the company sets up accounting, Posted after. Payment remains separate: applying a posted payment or credit creates settlements and moves the invoice to "Partially Paid" or "Paid".

Shipping part of the order — SHP000001 sends 2 of the 3 ordered, leaving 1 outstanding, so the order stays open.

The complete flow converts demand into planned production, traceable floor execution, quality control, shipment, and invoicing. See the Reference for details about methods, kits, policies, operations, and issues.