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title: "Status control and workflows for projects and project tasks"
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description: "Optimize your industrial equipment projects with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, featuring lifecycle management and project status workflows for efficiency."
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# Status control and workflows for projects and project tasks

**Industrial Equipment Manufacturing (IEM) for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central supports the customer-driven (pull) style of manufacturing.**

Industrial equipment often involves complex machinery or tools, resulting in relatively large and complex projects. To guide project managers and project team members through this complexity, Industrial Equipment Manufacturing uses states for projects and project tasks: optionally driven by lifecycles and supported by workflows.

![Life-cycles and Workflows](https://cdn.document360.io/da662430-6a41-47b1-8c7e-7e4ac37a9756/Images/Documentation/JMSLifecycleWorkflow2.png)

First, there is the project status as offered by Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, following the stages a project goes through:

1. Initiating or planning.
2. Quoting.
3. Executing, monitoring, and controlling.
4. Completing and closing.

Project Control Suite, in combination with [Item Status Management](/business-central/docs/bc-item-status-management), can be extended with **Project Status Management** to manage the project's business process through a lifecycle.

In Marketing and Sales integration, more detail is available about the sales processes leading to a project. Industrial Equipment Manufacturing status management for projects works bottom-up:

- When all planning lines are completed, the project task can be completed. When the remaining quantity on a planning line is 0, the line status is set to **Completed**. This status can also be set manually with the **Change Status** action or when a resource marks the task as complete.
- When all project tasks are completed, the project can be completed. A batch report cycles through all planning lines for a project task. When all planning lines have status **Completed**, the project task is set to **Completed**.

Document approval workflows can be created to further support these processes. An example has been added to Project Control Suite for approving a project change order. This approval workflow can be installed from a workflow template.

A project lifecycle is available as a separate app based on the Lifecycle Base app.

## Related

- [Introduction to Industrial Equipment manufacturing](/bc-introduction-to-industrial-equipment-manufacturing.md)
- [Value chain and the push/pull point](/bc-value-chain-and-the-push-pull-point.md)
- [Create project visibility](/bc-create-project-visibility.md)
- [Work breakdown structures](/bc-work-breakdown-structures.md)
- [Marketing and sales integration](/bc-marketing-and-sales-integration.md)
- [Comprehensive planning](/bc-comprehensive-planning.md)
- [Flexible manufacturing scenarios](/bc-flexible-manufacturing-scenarios.md)
- [Warehouse integration for projects](/bc-warehouse-integration-for-projects.md)
- [Resource integration in manufacturing (basic MES)](/bc-resource-integration-in-manufacturing-basic-mes.md)
- [Service integration (Servitization)](/bc-service-integration-servitization.md)
- [Item Status Management](/bc-item-status-management.md)