Manufacturers operate in high-stakes environments where production schedules, quality standards, and supply chain logistics must align with exacting precision. Jira offers powerful tools for managing these industry-specific challenges, ensuring full traceability, streamlined workflows, and tight process control across the factory floor and beyond:

• Efficiency – Jira incorporates an AI-powered platform and a no-code UI for creating automation that makes it easy to build streamlined, repeatable processes.
• Flexible - Jira empowers you to create custom projects, workflows and work item types, making it a solution for teams across your organization. Employees can track and manage inventory, products, or services, rapidly responding to requests, incidents, and changes.
• Traceability – Managing processes in Jira enhances transparency, providing visibility into teams' work and easy audit tracking.
• Checklists – By leveraging Checklists for Jira Pro organizations can effortlessly build QA, approvals and safety protocols into their processes.

Organization-Wide Adoption

One of the advantages of using Jira is that it’s flexible enough to be used by teams across your organization. Rather than using bespoke solutions designed for each different department, Jira allows you to build workflows that address the needs of all parts of your manufacturing business. Jira work items can be moved from one project to another, and using the same platform across all departments makes it faster and easier when personnel are transferred within the organization.

You can create Jira projects for everything from internal documentation to managing warranty claims. A customer who uses Jira to manage manufacturing recently reported that Jira was being used by all sorts of teams within their organization:

• Engineering
• Safety
• Inventory Control
• Bill of Materials
• Procurement
• Leadership
• Implementation
• Quality & Warranty
• Sales & Marketing
• IT

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This broad adoption demonstrates how Jira can bridge business and technical departments under a single workflow platform.

Jira Manufacturing Workflows

Jira allows you to create custom workflows specific to a team’s needs. The examples below show how Jira could be used for a change approval process, or for managing the production line.

Jira Workflow Example: Change Approval
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Jira Workflow Example: Production Line
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This production line workflow is from the Atlassian Marketplace.

Using Checklists in Manufacturing Projects

Checklists are a uniquely simple and effective tool for ensuring processes are followed. With requirements for physical safety, multi-level approvals and overlapping processes – manufacturers have multiple use cases for checklists.

Checklist Features

Loaded with features, Checklists for Jira Pro includes advanced functionality to support automated processes:

• Multiple Checklists per Jira work item gives you an organized way to manage complex requirements, as in this part change approval example.
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• User mentions with notifications ensure that the assigned (and accountable) person always knows what needs to be done.
• Integration with Jira Automation allows you to fully automate your processes. See examples of adding a new checklist when a Jira work item is transitioned, or transitioning the work item when the checklist is completed.
• Checklist templates that can be used across multiple Jira work items save time and ensure standardization.
• Workflow Validators that will block a transition unless all checklist items are complete.
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Key Manufacturing Use Cases

Jira can be adapted to virtually any use case. Some manufacturing use cases you may want to build into Jira include:

• Design Planning
• Prototype Development
• Production Line
• Equipment maintenance
• Post-Manufacturing Service & Support
• Warranty Claims
• Sales
• Change approvals
• Safety audits

See this article to learn how a manufacturing company used checklists in Jira to manage Engineering Change Approvals and Running Line Changes.

By leveraging Jira and Checklists for Jira Pro, manufacturing organizations can bring greater efficiency, traceability, and coordination to their operations. From engineering and safety to sales and support, Jira's flexibility allows teams across the entire business to manage their unique workflows within a unified system. With the right setup, Jira becomes more than just a task tracker—it transforms into a powerful platform for driving operational excellence across your entire manufacturing enterprise.