5. Region Locations: Defined

A region location is the physical space within a region in which an item or items reside.

Region Locations allow you to:

Isolate items in the production process.

Have multiple items reside in the same location.

Track groups of items.

Example 1

There is a one-to-one ratio between items and region locations.

1

A conveyor belt has 7 locations.

2

One of the locations.

Example 2

Bin One region has only one region location that is capable of holding multiple items.

1

Bin One has one region location that holds multiple items.

2

A sensor informs the tracking model that items 1, 2, 3 and 4 have entered Bin One region.

Note: If multiple Items reside at a single Tracking Region Location, one and only one of the Items may be a Serialized Item.

More information

Production Tracking System definitions and guidelines.