Manufacturing
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Manufacturing or Production
Manufacturing or production refers to activities involving players creating items.
In EVE, players can manufacture many items and ships for themselves.
Manufacturing is the primary source all ships, Tech 1 and Tech 2 ship equipment, ammunition, boosters, and several other miscellaneous items.
Many varieties of manufacturing can be done by any player, with no skill requirements, though some items require millions of skill points on the part of the manufacturer. All manufacturing requires, at a minimum, the following items:
- A blueprint for an item to be produced
- Minerals and/or components needed to produce the item
- A factory slot on a station or a POS
Research and Skills
The blueprint you use, Blueprint Original(BPO) or a Blueprint Copy(BPC), and the level of PE or ME research of the blueprint will govern how long the manufacturing process takes and how much materials needed.
As well, many skills affect manufacturing:
- Mass Production and Advanced Mass Production give a player the ability to run additional manufacturing jobs.
- Production Efficiency reduces material required.
- Industry makes manufacturing take less time
- Supply Chain Management allows for remote operation of manufacturing jobs.
Start a job
In order to start a job, all the necessary components must be present in the same station/POS,including enough materials for the desired number of runs, and in the case of a NPC factory, an isk payment must be made to rent the factory slot.
After all runs are completed, the manufacturing job will be finished, and the manufactured goods will be available in the station.
A Quick Guide To Start a Job
- 1. Get all the material you need.
- 2. Click on the Industry tab (Fig. 1.)
| Fig. 1. |
- 3. Click on the "Installations" tab
- 4. See that the filter is like this: (Fig. 1.1)
- Activity = Manufacturing
- Location = Any
- Rang= Current Solar System
- Type = Public
- Prod. Category = All
- Prod Grupp = All
| Fig. 1.1 |
- 5. See if you have standing with one of the station owners. if you do, select the station and see if there is any free slots.
- 6. When you have found a station with a free slot, move the BP and Materials over to the station.
- 7. Right click on the BP and select Manufacturing (Fig. 2.)
| Fig. 2. |
- Click on "Pick Installation" and dubble click on a free slot. (Fig. 3.)
| Fig 3. |
- Click "OK" (Fig. 4.)
| Fig. 4. |
- 8. If you have all the Materials there will be a green check mark (Fig. 5.)
| Fig. 5. |
- 9. Click on the "Accept Quote" and there you go, you have now started a manufacturing job
Abbreviations
- BPO = Blueprint Original
- BPC = Blueprint Copy
- ML/ME = Material Level
- PL/PE = Productivity Level
Example
One
A player wishes to produce 10 Core Defence Field Purger I using a 1000 run Blueprint Copy (BPC).
The blueprint has the following attributes...
- Material Level : 100
- Production Level : 0
The player has the following skills...
- Industry V
The base material costs for the blue print are as follows...
- Burned Logic Circuit x 100
- Tripped Power Circuit x 100
- Ward Console x 40
There are no wasted materials due to a lack of skills and, using the formula involving Material Level, 10 / (100 + 1) = 0.099%, we can see there is 0.099% wastage due to the Material Level of the blueprint. This wasteage is included in the base material costs shown on the blueprint.
Combined costs for 10 runs are then
- Burned Logic Circuit x 1000
- Tripped Power Circuit x 1000
- Ward Console x 400
If instead the blueprint has the following attributes...
- Material Level : 9
- Production Level : 0
The base material costs for the blue print are as follows...
- Burned Logic Circuit x 101
- Tripped Power Circuit x 101
- Ward Console x 40
There are no wasted materials due to a lack of skills and, using the formula involving Material Level, 10 / (9 + 1) = 1%, there is an obvious 1% increase in the material taken compared to the above example.
Combined costs for 10 runs are then
- Burned Logic Circuit x 1010
- Tripped Power Circuit x 1010
- Ward Console x 400
Note that the Ward Consoles do not use any additional material. The waste is calculated at the single run level, and rounded to the nearest whole unit. This whole number is multiplied by the number of runs to determine a final cost.
The player has all the materials in a NPC station with factory slots, sets it to manufacture, and pays the appropriate amount of isk. With this player's skills, manufacturing will take 8 minutes per unit, or 80 minutes total. When the player comes back and finishes the job 80 minutes (or more) later, they will have 10 Purger rigs and a 990-run blueprint copy.
Troubleshooting
Lab/Factory Already Taken
It happens on occasion that two individuals select the same slot at the same time and start setting up their job. When this happens, the one who finishes the setup first will get the slot right away while the latter will have to wait until the other finishes his job.
This is difficult to prevent but we don't recommend rushing through the job setup as if you make a mistake and then cancel your job, you will lose the entire bill of materials and whatever progress you had made in the production.
Time Delay Issue
Note that it can take the server a while to process the requested job, so refreshing the job's status after a few minutes should display its correct status.
Cancelling a Job
If cancelled, only the blueprint will be returned. The materials will be lost and the slot will be rented until the normal expiration date.
Links
See also
External links
- Manufacturing Optimizer Calculates and displays the most profitable manufacturing combination.
- Manufacturing Profit Calcs "Calculates profits for every blueprint and let you sort/filter them"
- Manufacturing finder This tool can help to find profitable products to manufacture
- Guide to Manufacturing in Eve Online at eve-online-fan.co.uk
- A guide to crafting in Eve-Online at cesspit.net
- The Eve Online Science and Industry Guide by GC13
- EvE-Guides.com - Manufacturing and Blueprints Nice eve online guides
- Chruker's EVE Online section A great site with a lot of information