Work order and operation statuses
What each work order and operation status means and which actions are available in it.
A work order has its own lifecycle, and so does each operation within it. The two are related but distinct: the work order is the overall task, the operations are its steps.
Work order statuses
| Status | Meaning | What you can do |
|---|---|---|
| Pending | Created but not released. Operations and components do not exist yet. | Release, or cancel. |
| Released | Operations and components created from the BOM and routing. | Start, hold, or cancel. |
| In progress | Work has begun on the order. | Complete, hold, or cancel. |
| On hold | Paused. | Resume, or cancel. |
| Completed | Steps done; materials consumed and outputs received. | Close. |
| Closed | Finalized. Read-only. | None. |
| Cancelled | Withdrawn before completion. | None. |
The following diagram shows how a work order moves between statuses:
Releasing is what resolves the BOM and routing into the work order's operations and components, so a work order must be released before its steps can run.
Operation statuses
Each operation (step) runs through its own states as the work order progresses:
| Status | Meaning | What you can do |
|---|---|---|
| Pending | Not yet ready to run. | Start, or skip. |
| Ready | Scheduled and ready to run. | Start, or skip. |
| In progress | An operator is running it. | Report production, complete, or skip. |
| Paused | Temporarily halted. | Start (resume), or skip. |
| Completed | Finished. If an inspection was required, it passed. | None. |
| Skipped | Bypassed (for example, a parallel path covered it). | None. |
| Cancelled | Withdrawn. | None. |
The following diagram shows how an operation moves between statuses:
- An operation that requires an inspection cannot complete until that inspection has passed. See Quality.
- Report production records quantity complete and scrapped against an in-progress operation; you can report more than once.
Where to go next
- For the steps to run all of this, see Run a work order.
- For the parent job's lifecycle, see Job statuses.