The basis of every calculation in Keyline is the process-oriented production flow. Keyline basically carries out local production planning for a product and then calculates the process, material and external costs for the delivery of the end product "backwards".
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The advantage of this approach lies in its flexibility. It is not necessary to manually set up the flow for each product type: Keyline does this automatically based on the selected product properties, materials, machines, further processing and packaging.

Another advantage: Since a production-ready product was already configured in the design stage, this can be transferred directly to production planning without any detours when an order is placed.

Except for the first operation of the production chain (e.g. preparation of print data and inspection), each operation requires at least one required output product. Product type and processing must correspond in definition to the manufactured product of the previous operation.

Important: Only the correct definition of required raw materials, required starting products and manufactured product makes it possible for Keyline to automatically create the production flow. 

Each task should expect either printed sheets or partial products. Only then can you be sure that the task is sorted correctly and multiple possible combinations of sorting are excluded.