Abakion’s shop floor mobile is part of a complete mobile suite for Business Central. It handles time registration, material registration, and shop floor overview, and it shares a common engine called the mobile flow engine with the other apps in the suite.
The mobile flow engine runs entirely inside Business Central. It is the core engine that builds the flows, gathers data, and defines actions such as find item, make consumption, show item picture, and post operations.
The suite includes several apps that use the same engine: shop floor mobile, warehouse mobile, sales mobile, labels mobile, and job mobile. You buy the apps you need, and they all rely on the same underlying functionality.
What the shop floor mobile does
The shop floor mobile gives you the functionality for shop floor handling, time registration, and material registration, plus an overview of what is happening on the shop floor. The registration interface is built for the people working directly in production.
On top of the shared flow functionality, the shop floor app has overview features built specifically for shop floor use. So while it uses the same engine as the other apps, parts of it are tailored to the production environment.
The mobile flow engine inside Business Central
The mobile flow engine lives inside Business Central. Everything you configure on the engine page works directly in Business Central, with no separate platform to maintain.
The engine is the core that builds the flows and gathers data. In the middle of the setup you define the individual flows, for example find item, make consumption, show item picture, show content, and post operations. These flows are then reused across the different apps that run on the engine.
The apps in the mobile flow suite
All the apps in the suite use the same mobile flow engine, which means they share the same foundation:
- Shop floor mobile for shop floor handling, time registration, material registration, and shop floor overview.
- Warehouse mobile for warehouse operations.
- Sales mobile for salespeople working in the field who need to take orders and register time and attendance.
- Labels mobile for printing labels.
- Job mobile for ordinary time registration.
Because the apps build on a shared engine, you can start with the flow you need today and add other apps from the suite later without changing the underlying setup.
Q&A
What can the shop floor mobile app do?
It handles shop floor handling, time registration, material registration, and gives an overview of activity on the shop floor.
Where does the mobile flow engine run?
The mobile flow engine runs entirely inside Business Central. Everything you configure on its page works directly in Business Central, so there is no separate system to maintain.
Which apps are part of the mobile flow suite?
The suite includes shop floor mobile, warehouse mobile, sales mobile, labels mobile, and job mobile. They all use the same mobile flow engine.
Can I buy just the shop floor app or do I need the whole suite?
The shop floor mobile is part of a full mobile suite, but you can buy other mobile flows as well. The apps share the same engine, so you can add more later as you need them.