I'd like to start out right and setup my work flow properly. Any quick suggestions would be appreciated. We are a make to order manufacturing shop with 35 employees. Most projects require some level of customization of both hardware and software components.
Projects include several steps of fabrication -- design, material fabrication (e.g. metal, acrylic), electrical wiring, programming, QC. Each step is approved by the project manager.
After the sale we have service and maintenance interactions with the customer.
Each machine we make has a serial number and each project is tracked by a work order (the initial build, maintenance and service all have individual work orders.
Initially, I'm thinking of setting up projects as customers and add project builds, service and maintenance as individual issues.
Any feedback would be appreciated as we want to be able to search a serial number and find any activity related to a particular machine.
Thanks in advance for any feedback.