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Improved Layout Plan Library

Open the library with the Layout Plan Library icon.

The Layout Plan Library icon on a firm's screen

Pre-defined and user-defined plans

The library now separates the two. The [Pre-defined] and [User-defined] buttons switch between them.

The Layout Plan Library with its pre-defined and user-defined sections

A useful visual cue for factory plans: purchasing units with no available supply are shown on a gray background, so you can see at a glance which plan you can actually run.

A factory layout plan with unavailable purchasing units shown on a gray background

Wildcard factory plans

A [Wildcard Factory Plan] folder lets you define one layout plan and use it for multiple products that share the same number of inputs.

The Wildcard Factory Plan folder in the layout plan library

Apply one and the purchasing units are labeled Wildcard Input <id>. Link one of them to a supplier and every other unit with the same id links to that supplier automatically.

So linking a plastic supply to a unit labeled Wildcard Input 1 links every other Wildcard Input 1 to the same plastic supply — one action instead of several.

A factory using a wildcard plan, with purchasing units labeled Wildcard Input