How are options and dimensions entered?
A Supervisor chooses an approved product family and enters one unit's values: exact dimensions with their unit, and each option from the declared list, such as the finish or whether a panel is needed. Each configuration describes exactly one unit, and a missing value is shown as missing.
How are impossible combinations refused?
The approved model declares each input's limits and the conditions that block a combination. A width below the declared minimum, an unsupported unit, an incompatible option or a failed calculation is refused with its reason.
A refused evaluation never produces a substitute or empty parts list, and it cannot be accepted. Correct the values and evaluate again.
What does it produce for the factory?
Evaluating applies the active approved release and shows the unit's parts, whole-number quantities and cut dimensions. After checking the preview, the Supervisor accepts that exact result, and FactorySpec keeps it with the release and inputs that produced it.
A pack then keeps the accepted result as a fixed PDF and a JSON record. The PDF carries a QR code that opens the result's current status.
How does the floor read the result?
An operator scans the code printed on the result, or types it, on a handheld or scan station. The current status shows first, then the components for that one unit.
The floor view shows no formulae, source inputs or office packs. A scan only reads the result: it does not start or finish a task, remove a hold or approve production.
What if a result is withdrawn?
A result can be withdrawn, and withdrawing a component or table holds every release that uses it. Scanning a withdrawn result shows a stop message, and a scan cannot remove the hold. A printed copy cannot update itself, so the floor checks the current status by scanning.
What FactorySpec does not do
- 3D models, visualisation or augmented reality.
- Pricing or quotes.
- CAD drawings or models.
- Cutting optimisation or nested assemblies.
- Permission to manufacture on its own. Each result shows its current eligibility, and production use needs your recorded engineering approval for that product family.
Common questions
What does configurator mean?
A configurator is software that lets someone choose the options and sizes of a product within set rules, so every combination it accepts is one the business can supply.
What does product configuration mean?
Product configuration is choosing the options, sizes and features of one unit of a product that comes in many variants, and turning that choice into what is needed to make it, such as its parts and dimensions.
Is FactorySpec a 3D product configurator?
No. FactorySpec does not do 3D.
Does AI design the product?
No. Your engineers declare the model: its inputs, limits, components, calculations and independently calculated expected examples, and a different Reviewer approves it. Evaluation runs the approved rules exactly, with no AI call, and FactorySpec does not judge whether an unfamiliar design is safe or can be made.
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