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Designing the New-SKU Onboarding Pipeline
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Plant leadership wants to add a new SKU variant to an existing line that already runs three other SKUs on rotation via changeover. They want the new SKU inspection-ready within one business day of the first production units coming off the line, and they ask you to justify why that's realistic given this case's approach.
- Lay out the onboarding pipeline stage by stage, from "first production units available" to "SKU live on the edge box," with a rough time estimate per stage (label these as estimates).
- Identify the one stage most likely to blow the one-day budget, and explain why it's the bottleneck rather than the modeling steps.
- The edge box already hosts three SKUs' memory banks. What has to be verified before the fourth is hot-swapped in during the next changeover, beyond "the new memory bank was built successfully"?
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