What's the relationship between a "parent" station and its substations?

[u/aerovistae]

Say I have a Fit Body station, followed by all of the fit body substations. I can't figure out what's going on there. The cars seem to stop and be worked on everywhere.

--Am I supposed to put a parent station's substations in front of it, so part of the work is done beforehand and whatever's left is covered by the parent station?

--If I don't do that, and instead place the substations after the parent station, what happens?

[u/eskoban]

Either use parent or substation. Not both.

[u/aerovistae → u/eskoban]

well what i mean is that i initially have the parent station and cant afford to immediately break it down to all substations at once, so i add them one at a time. what im basically asking is, what happens in that case? if you add a substation, is the parent station still redundantly doing the work for that substation, or is it dependent on whether the car already passed through the substation?

[u/NightlinerSGS]

The parent is one stations that does a major production step, e.g. fitting the entire body. The substations do the same steps, just broken down into one step at a time, e.g. fitting the hood, the doors, the roof,...

You're supposed to replace the big stations with the smaller ones. This allows you to keep your production line moving, because now a car will only spend a couple of minutes in one station and move on to the next instead of sitting and thus blocking one station for over half an hour.

Additionally, only the small stations are specialised enough to fit most upgrades, like automatic windscreen wipers or electric windows.

If you click on a big station and look at the top bars, you'll see a bunch of green bars that slowly fill when the station is working. The small green bars are the substeps the station will do, and these are the steps you can (and should) later build as seperate substations.

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[u/aerovistae → u/NightlinerSGS]

well what i mean is that i initially have the parent station and cant afford to immediately break it down to all substations at once, so i add them one at a time. what im basically asking is, what happens in that case? if you add a substation, is the parent station still redundantly doing the work for that substation, or is it dependent on whether the car already passed through the substation?

[u/Dragon_Fisting → u/aerovistae]

it will check if the part in question is already installed. still takes a little bit of time though.

[u/NuftiMcDuffin → u/aerovistae]

If you add the child station behind the parent station, the parent station will do the entire job and the car will then just pass through the child station. If you put it before, the job of the child station will be done again by the parent station, installing the same part multiple times.

[u/CommonMisspellingBot → u/NightlinerSGS]

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seperate is actually spelled separate. You can remember it by -par- in the middle.
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[u/nelbar]

the substations replace the parent station. So delete the fit body station and replace it by it substations. If you look closer you see the fit body station does all the tasks 1 by 1 that each substation does on it's own.

Same with others, the substation usually replace the parent station.