Event controllers to control production

Indeed. At one point I had an older 'production control block' that could unify all the various production blocks into one more advanced production console, but it got archived. Something like this would help greatly at automating some of these things. Especially on ships with self repair functions, as the ship is damaged, event controllers could find low resources and start making spares.

There can also be more specialized cargo containers. It is weird that we can mix together ores and motherboards. Say you have a cargo container suitable only for storing simple metal parts like steel plates, tubes and construction components. You can have an additional filter right inside the cargo container to further restrict items that can go inside.

I agree that cargo containers need to be more sophisticated, with sorting capabilities and the unified inventory ui that so many others have requested. But how would that fix the automatic production? Do you mean like a option in the cargo container itself?

@Fredrik

If you have a specific items in container then you can simply listen to the container fill. Then there might be a production order action, but it has nothing to do with EC as proposed in OP. Actions are a general concept.

Do you mean Isy's Inventory Manager? Or was there a mod that changed the event controllers to this exactly?

Not really part of this request. But, does sorters work at all atm? I thought they where just placeholders.

newp, not yet