# FactorySpec guides and demonstrations

Learn FactorySpec tasks, handle common problems and practise with checked demonstrations using sample data.

Source: https://help.smartfact.ai/factoryspec

Read a guide below, or use the help page to ask a general product question. Interactive demonstrations run on desktop and laptop computers. Written instructions work on any device.

## Guides and help pages

- [Get help before continuing](https://help.smartfact.ai/factoryspec/guides/floor-help): Understand when to stop and ask your supervisor.
- [Check a withdrawn result](https://help.smartfact.ai/factoryspec/guides/held-result): Read the stop message and ask a supervisor to review the result.
- [Deal with a missing result](https://help.smartfact.ai/factoryspec/guides/missing-result): Never substitute the previous result after a failed scan.
- [Look up a result and read its status](https://help.smartfact.ai/factoryspec/guides/result-lookup): Scan a result reference and read the permitted current status and parts.
- [Change a draft and request review](https://help.smartfact.ai/factoryspec/guides/author-model): Make a bounded model change and submit independent expectations without approving your own work.
- [Check readiness before inviting users](https://help.smartfact.ai/factoryspec/guides/owner-readiness-guide): Read the readiness failures and see what evidence is still needed.
- [Review, approve and activate a release](https://help.smartfact.ai/factoryspec/guides/reviewer-release): Review a different author’s candidate, then deliberately activate it for new evaluations.
- [Amend an accepted configuration](https://help.smartfact.ai/factoryspec/guides/supervisor-amendment): Copy accepted inputs into a new revision, re-evaluate and accept the replacement deliberately.
- [Evaluate, accept and prepare an engineering pack](https://help.smartfact.ai/factoryspec/guides/supervisor-evaluation): Create a checked result for one unit, then generate its private fixed evaluation pack.
- [Handle an invalid dimension](https://help.smartfact.ai/factoryspec/guides/supervisor-invalid): Read a genuine evaluator refusal for a dimension outside the approved range.