Describe a FactorySpec constraint in plain English
Type a product configuration rule in plain English, answer the AI's question about the details it needs, inspect the complete proposed constraint, save it deliberately as a draft and request the native engineering review.
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Type a product configuration rule in plain English, answer the AI's question about the details it needs, inspect the complete proposed constraint, save it deliberately as a draft and request the native engineering review.
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Plain English to a checked draft
- Load the FA-300 family draft
Load the FA-300 family draft
Load the frame assembly FA-300 draft from FactorySpec. Its expected results, worked out by hand from drawing FA-300, say a black frame with a clear panel must be blocked, but the model has no constraint for it yet.
- Choose Add constraints entry
Choose Add constraints entry
Choose Add constraints entry. A constraint blocks a combination of options that cannot be built.
- Load the constraint controls
Load the constraint controls
Load the controls for a new constraint. This reads FactorySpec and does not save anything.
- Choose the new constraint to describe
Choose the new constraint to describe
Choose Add constraints entry under Change to describe, so the proposal covers the whole constraint: when it blocks a configuration and the message people see.
- Type the requirement in plain English
Type the requirement in plain English
Type the requirement as the team wrote it: block a selected clear panel with a black finish.
- Ask for a proposal
Ask for a proposal
Ask for a proposal. The AI replies with a question instead of guessing: a constraint needs its own key and the message people see when it blocks a configuration.
- Add the details the AI asked for
Add the details the AI asked for
Keep the requirement and add the missing details: call the constraint incompatible_panel and show the message "The black frame does not take a clear panel. Choose opaque or remove the panel."
- Ask for the complete proposal
Ask for the complete proposal
Ask again. The AI now returns a complete constraint. Nothing is saved until you choose to save it.
- Read the restatement of the change
Read the restatement of the change
Read the restatement. It says in plain words that the proposal adds the constraint incompatible_panel to the FA-300 model: it blocks a configuration that includes a panel when the frame finish is black and the panel type is clear, and shows its message. Every value it saves is listed next.
- Check what will be saved
Check what will be saved
Read what the constraint will save, field by field: its key, when it applies and its message. Each option is shown by its name in the model.
- Check when the constraint applies
Check when the constraint applies
Check when the constraint applies, read from the labels the model gives each field: Include a panel equals Yes, Frame finish equals black and Panel type equals clear.
- Check the key and the message
Check the key and the message
Check the key incompatible_panel and the message people will see: "The black frame does not take a clear panel. Choose opaque or remove the panel."
- Confirm you checked the whole proposal
Confirm you checked the whole proposal
Confirm that you checked every value. FactorySpec still validates the whole model and checks it against the expected results when it saves.
- Save the proposal as a draft
Save the proposal as a draft
Save the proposal as a draft. Saving does not approve, release or apply the constraint: a separate engineering expert, the expected results, the proof and an independent review come next.
- Request the native engineering review
Request the native engineering review
Prepare the native engineering review of the saved draft. A separate engineering expert must approve the model in FactorySpec before it can be selected here.
Only a draft was saved and its engineering review requested. A separate expert, the expected results, the proof and an independent review come next.