# Review, approve and activate a release

Review a different author’s candidate, then deliberately activate it for new evaluations.

Source: https://help.smartfact.ai/factoryspec/guides/reviewer-release

Audience: Reviewer

This lesson uses a fictional frame and a person with only the reviewer role. No result here is approved for real manufacture.

## Review, approve and activate a release

1. **Review queue**

   Review queue.

   Open review queue.

2. **Open the independent candidate**

   Open the independent candidate.

   Another person prepared this model and its expected cases. You did not contribute to this candidate.

3. **Inspect changes and independent expectations**

   Inspect changes and independent expectations.

   Compare the model changes, exact units, engineering scope and independently expected examples. Passing tests alone are not engineering approval.

4. **Confirm the engineering review**

   Confirm the engineering review.

   Confirm only after you have reviewed the complete engineering evidence. The fictional frame is not a qualified manufacturing design.

5. **Approve the candidate**

   Approve the candidate.

   Approval preserves this reviewed version. Activation for new evaluations is a separate action.

6. **Open the activation controls**

   Open the activation controls.

   Select a previously approved release deliberately. Existing accepted results do not change.

7. **Choose the approved release**

   Choose the approved release.

   Choose the release you have just approved, not an unreviewed draft.

8. **Prepare the activation comparison**

   Prepare the activation comparison.

   Check the baseline and historical comparisons before selecting a release for new work.

9. **Explain this activation**

   Explain this activation.

   Record why the approved release is being selected. This example remains evaluation-only.

10. **Confirm the selected release**

   Confirm the selected release.

   Confirm that this is the version you intend to use for new evaluations.

11. **Activate for new evaluations**

   Activate for new evaluations.

   Activate the reviewed version. This still does not qualify the family for manufacture.

[Watch or practise this chapter](https://help.smartfact.ai/factoryspec/demo?guide=reviewer-release&chapter=practice&audience=office)

Check the current record and your own authority before working with real data. An evaluation result never authorises manufacture.