---
title: "Manage Your Facilities and Lines"
slug: "environment-builder"
description: "Environment Builder is a feature in Factory Build that empowers process experts to configure Lines, including setting time offsets and the asset display order. Create a Digital Twin of the entire factory through an intuitive drag-and-drop interface. Get a holistic view of the multi-layered interdependencies across assets, lines, and processes, allowing you to take actionable insights."
updated: 2026-03-18T13:21:33Z
published: 2026-03-18T13:21:33Z
canonical: "docs.sightmachine.com/environment-builder"
stale: true
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.sightmachine.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Manage Your Facilities and Lines

## Configuring Lines

On the facility page, you can group machines together into a line and organize their order by linking them together.

Add machines to the canvas using the asset picker in the top left. The platform does not require you to use every machine. Link these machines by clicking and dragging from the output port of one machine to the input port of another machine.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/c65001f1-30e3-4f1d-b335-57abf64ebd31/Images/Documentation/image-1698140736146.png)

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/c65001f1-30e3-4f1d-b335-57abf64ebd31/Images/Documentation/image-1698140741893.png)

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/c65001f1-30e3-4f1d-b335-57abf64ebd31/Images/Documentation/image-1698140761332.png)

To create a line, select machines (tip: press **Shift** to select multiple), and then click the **Create a Line** action in the top left. You can also click **Create a Line**, and then select which machines to include.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/c65001f1-30e3-4f1d-b335-57abf64ebd31/Images/Documentation/image-1698141955377.png)

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/c65001f1-30e3-4f1d-b335-57abf64ebd31/Images/Documentation/image-1698141964853.png)

To remove machines from a line, right-click the machine or edit the line.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/c65001f1-30e3-4f1d-b335-57abf64ebd31/Images/Documentation/image-1698142014813.png)

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/c65001f1-30e3-4f1d-b335-57abf64ebd31/Images/Documentation/image-1698142043420.png)

You can also remove machines or delete an entire line, including all of its machines. Machines that you remove from the canvas are still available in the asset picker.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/c65001f1-30e3-4f1d-b335-57abf64ebd31/Images/Documentation/image-1698142096208.png)

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/c65001f1-30e3-4f1d-b335-57abf64ebd31/Images/Documentation/image-1698142108549.png)

## Ordering the Assets

You can arrange the order that is used to display machines across the platform. This order is used in locations such as the asset picker in ANALYZE (when the Line model is used) and the machine cards in the Facility graphical view.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/c65001f1-30e3-4f1d-b335-57abf64ebd31/Images/Documentation/image-1698142238952.png)

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/c65001f1-30e3-4f1d-b335-57abf64ebd31/Images/Documentation/image-1773840065526.png)

## Delete "Ghost" Facilities

This tutorial provides a short-term solution to removing "ghost" Facilities- Facilities that were created but never removed. Follow these steps to identify and remove these ghost facilities using Environment Builder.

**Step 1:** Open Environment Builder for your Workspace version. This will display a list of facilities. Ghost facilities are marked with an error indication, implying that they no longer exist or have been renamed or deleted.

![](https://usercontent.clueso.io/e8e80269-1826-48a3-9dcf-125e74db9b9d/4773c2f3-13af-4d6b-88be-b9751856136e/e61239f5-a8f8-4023-959f-f5558e468e29/images/b57e461f-1b49-4fe5-a9d3-e141f63dbade.png)

![](https://usercontent.clueso.io/e8e80269-1826-48a3-9dcf-125e74db9b9d/4773c2f3-13af-4d6b-88be-b9751856136e/e61239f5-a8f8-4023-959f-f5558e468e29/images/bf42a874-1057-4e70-aa01-e81525042d87.png)

**Step 2:** Open the **options menu** to delete the identified ghost facility.

![](https://usercontent.clueso.io/e8e80269-1826-48a3-9dcf-125e74db9b9d/4773c2f3-13af-4d6b-88be-b9751856136e/e61239f5-a8f8-4023-959f-f5558e468e29/images/cec15d5a-7880-4631-be7a-8f47bd8bc65e.gif)

**Step 3:** Confirm the deletion when prompted.

![](https://usercontent.clueso.io/e8e80269-1826-48a3-9dcf-125e74db9b9d/4773c2f3-13af-4d6b-88be-b9751856136e/e61239f5-a8f8-4023-959f-f5558e468e29/images/f8ebb7c6-0158-447c-907d-76656507a353.png)

After confirming, the ghost facility will be removed. Note that this deletion option is only available for ghost facilities.