Guides for the people who run the system every day: what each feature is for, the reasoning behind it, and the steps to use it well.
Tick the artefacts, then use the picker at the right of the bar that appears to set a batch size or shelf life, give them all the same manufacture steps, move them to another family or department, discontinue them, or bring them back. · 11 min read
Ask the AI assistant you connect to aiku to create artefacts, raw materials and tasks, set unit costs, and give one artefact, a list or whole families their manufacture steps and ingredients. It always shows you the change first, and every change can be undone. · 19 min read
The artisan's guide - the My tasks screen, the job list that updates on its own, START and DONE, what to press when you made fewer than asked, and taking a break. · 12 min read
For the production manager and the floor supervisor - putting jobs on a day's plan without naming anyone, giving each step to an operator, and what happens to work not finished on its day. · 7 min read
Teach aiku which artisans usually make each category or artefact, so the To produce list sorts itself into people's piles. A recommendation, never a lock. · 4 min read
Build an A4 label sheet on an artefact: upload the artwork, set the grid, drop on the batch code, expiry date and a barcode that scans, then publish it so the floor can print it. · 9 min read
The factory makes units in whole batches, the warehouse counts packs. What packed_in and the batch size do to a job order, to what lands on the shelf, and to what a partner should order. · 3 min read
The factory's guide - one queue of everything the factory owes, to partner organisations and to its own customers, grouped the way a production planner thinks. · 8 min read
The To restock page - which artefacts run out first, how long the factory takes to make anything, and how to put your own restock work on the To produce board. · 4 min read
The four positions in a factory - floor supervisor, mix preparer, foreman and operative - what each one can do in aiku, and how a position is given to a person. · 3 min read
For the preparer and the planner - how a mix or base becomes something the factory tracks, how the Mixes tab works out what to prepare, and how the preparer's job orders flow. · 4 min read