Register the machines your floor runs on, keep each one's status current, and gather interchangeable machines into groups.
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The rotary oven throws a belt halfway through the morning bake. Before anyone schedules the next batch onto it, you mark it down — and the reason is logged against the machine so its service history stays complete. Every machine on your floor lives on Equipment: what it is, whether it's running, and which line it belongs to. This is where you add machines, keep their status current, and gather interchangeable ones into groups. Kitchen+
Open Equipment and select New
Go to Equipment under Production and select New.
Name it and choose a department
Give the machine a Name and pick the Department that runs it. The department matters past the label: a recipe step can only reach for equipment in its own department, so a mixer filed under Production is what shows up when you write a Production recipe. Model, Serial number, and Internal machine number are optional.
Set how it runs
Choose the Equipment type — Non-Continuous for a machine that works one batch at a time, like a mixer or a blast chiller, or Continuous for one that runs at a steady rate, like an oven conveyor or a label printer. Set the Input type to LB or Unit. A continuous machine needs a Capacity, its throughput per minute; a non-continuous machine takes a Minimum and Maximum batch weight, the range it can hold.
Add calibration and reference details
Record the Last and Next calibration dates if you track them — Bettr flags a machine on the list when its next calibration falls within 30 days or has already passed. You can also attach external Links, like an operating manual, and key-and-value Settings, like a target temperature or a cycle time.
Create
Select Create. The machine gets its own page, where you change its status and edit its details later.
A machine is Active when it's ready to run, Maintenance when it's down for a repair or a check, and Inactive when it's retired from the line. The status shows on the list and on the machine's page, so anyone planning a run can see at a glance what's available — and a triangle marks any machine whose calibration is due or overdue.
To change it, open the machine and select Change status. Pick the new status, set the date and time it happened, and write a reason. Bettr records the change in the machine's Event history and names it for you — a machine going from Active straight to Maintenance is logged as a Failure, and bringing it back is a Maintenance End. Nothing is overwritten, so the history reads as the machine's full service record.
Pull up everything that's down
The status and department filters at the top of the list narrow it in place, so before a shift you can call up every machine in Maintenance, or every machine in one department, without scrolling the whole floor.
When two ovens can each bake the same line, the schedule shouldn't have to care which one. An gathers them under a single name.
Open Equipment groups and select New
Go to Equipment groups under Production and select New.
Name the group
Give it a Name that reads on the floor, like Baking Line or Packaging Line. The group belongs to your current company; switch companies from the top bar first if you meant a different one.
Choose the machines
Select Choose equipment for this group to open the picker, tick every machine that belongs, and select Confirm selection. You can search by name, and each machine shows its status so you don't group in one that's already retired.
Create
Select Create. It stays off until you've picked at least one machine.
Recipes name a machine, not a group
A recipe's production steps point at one specific piece of equipment, not a group — see Create a recipe. A group is a planning convenience: interchangeable machines under one name, so you can reason about them as a set.
To retire a machine for good, open it, select Edit, and use Delete equipment in the Danger zone at the bottom. Deleting hides it from every list and equipment group — but, as with everything in Bettr, the record is kept for audit; nothing is truly erased. Marking a machine Inactive is the lighter touch: it stays a machine you can see and bring back, just flagged as off the line.
A group works the same way. Edit the group and use Delete equipment group. Deleting a group leaves its machines untouched — it only removes the grouping.