Talk:Factory/@comment-1571754-20200927191120

Playing console and unlike a few other posters, I'm not here to detract from the factory, but to know how best to use mine and if anyone else has useful hints.

One of the reasons I like the factory is because of the multiple 'slots' per machine for parallel processing. It was mentioned that it's possible to run 10 smelting jobs in parallel without having a factory, but by using a factory with only those same furnaces, you can run 100 smelting jobs in parallel, right?

The main reason I wanted a factory was to parallelize my extensive set of workstations (I had reached the limit of 50 for console), and then take everything out of the factory to do the crafting at my worktable (for Artisan) and to have the mats I need for manual assembly. It seems much easier with a central control center, no worries about fuel, and no need to collect the products from each workstation and manually sort them into chests (I hate autosort implementation - I keep all my items in the rightmost personal inventory screen for a reason). It's too bad the factory output container can't be treated like a normal container you can 'pull' stuff out from for your worktable or other purposes.

So to fully parallelize tasks on console, I need to keep all the slots of each type on the left of the management screen full, right? Splitting my jobs into, say, 10 parts if I have 10 machines, to keep running at 100%?

Also, how well does it integrate with the assembly station L3? I saw a button in the management screen, but since I never considered building assembly v3 until I saw that, I have no idea.