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Overview

Factories are the self-contained workspaces where your simulation models, data pipelines, BOMs, plans, schedules, and results live. Dexter, your AI agent, is also factory-scoped — each factory has its own Dexter conversations and its own persistent knowledge base, so what Dexter learns in one factory doesn’t leak into another. See First Login: Factories for the core concept — this page covers the operations you perform on factories once they exist.

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Switching Between Factories

Click the factory name at the top of the main workspace to open the factory selector. The dropdown shows:
  • Search — filter the list by name
  • New Factory — create a new factory
  • Import Factory — load a factory from an export file (see Factory Export)
  • Export Factory — download the current factory as a file
  • Your factories — grouped by recency (Today, Yesterday, Previous 7 Days, etc.)
Selecting a factory loads its full context: your models, data pipelines, BOMs, plans, schedules, results, and Dexter’s knowledge base all switch to that factory. The switch is instant — there’s no save step, because everything in a factory is saved continuously as you work.

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Creating a New Factory

See First Login: Creating Your First Factory for the step-by-step flow. From the factory selector dropdown, click New Factory, enter a name, optionally add a description, and click Create New Factory.

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Renaming a Factory

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Deleting a Factory

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Sharing Factories With Teammates

Factories are scoped to you — the person who created them. They don’t automatically share with your team, and even admins can’t see other users’ factories. To give a teammate access to a factory you built, export the factory and send them the file. They can import it into their own workspace and get a full copy of your models, pipelines, entities, and configuration. From that point, their copy is independent — changes they make don’t flow back to your version. If you need multiple people working on the same factory, the current pattern is: one person owns it, others work on exports or on their own copies, and changes are consolidated via re-export.