Should a fictional packaging-line pilot move to wider rollout?

Do not authorize site-wide rollout until the pilot has completed two stable production weeks and the manual recovery path has been tested.

Owner: Fictional Operations Director
Review forum: Fictional monthly investment review
Next review: After two stable weeks or any safety-related stoppage.

• The pilot cell completed 18 production shifts.
• Output met the target on 13 shifts.
• Two stoppages required vendor support.
• The manual recovery procedure has not been tested during a live shift.

• Remaining lines have comparable product mix and staffing.
• Vendor response time will remain available during rollout.
• Training time can be absorbed without affecting planned output.

• No verified recovery-time result without vendor assistance.
• No line-by-line assessment of guarding and access differences.
• No confirmed total cost for support during scale-up.

Rollout remains partly reversible while changes are limited to the pilot cell. Reversal cost increases after additional hardware orders, training commitments and production-plan changes.

Pause the wider commitment, not the pilot.

Continue controlled pilot operation. Test manual recovery, confirm site-specific differences and return to the review forum with two stable weeks of evidence.

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