App Purpose
The Mass Flow app visualizes the physical mass of a Product based on its BOM structure. This gives a detailed picture of how an assembly or product is made up, and how components contribute, in terms of their mass, to the makeup of the finished product in every stage of manufacturing.
You can use this app to make sure that the weights of your product parts add up correctly.
Prerequisites
You must import your BOM into Makersite. This document is based on an example BOM for sildenafil citrate, commonly known as Viagra.
Using Mass Flow App
From the main page, go to Makersite Apps > Business > Mass Flow.
Analyze the presented data.
Sankey View
The app shows your data in Sankey View by default. The thickness of lines between nodes represents relative weight of the parts.
Select the component you want to to analyze by clicking on the line connecting it to the next process.
Check the mass information in the right-hand menu. You can also see the weight in a tooltip when you hover over the connection.
Note that certain low-impact components can be hidden in this app. If the process name begins with a prefix such as [5 Others], it means that certain 5 small components are not shown in the Sankey - but you can always see them in the Grid View.
Note that we can immediately see that the input mass is much greater than output mass for the process outputting 2-ethoxybenzoic acid. This does not necessarily indicate an error - mass can be lost in production. If the output mass is higher than input mass, most likely there's either an error in the BOM data or Makersite matched an incorrect alternative dataset.
Grid View
If you want to see data for multiple parts, for example all inputs of a process, you can use the Grid View.
Weight (kg) shows you the weight of a product
Amount and Unit together show you the amount of a product. In this case, since the unit is kg, the result is exactly the same as Weight (kg).
