Use case · Production
Work readiness
Work package readiness: determine whether a specific unit of physical work can begin now. When it cannot, say which gate is open and who owns it.
- Records
- Released work
- Physical build
- Human authority
What happensA long-lead supplier slips. The kit breaks, the block loses its sequence, and the crew needs a stop-or-proceed call that will hold up.
The kit goes short, Records
Two of the nine spools for WP-019 are in stores, made to Rev C, and Rev D re-specifies them. Purchasing counts them as stock. The work package cannot use them.
Readiness recomputes, Records
Configuration and material are known open. Six gates, two of them open: NOT READY.
The package cannot release, Released work
The crew booked against WP-019 has no releasable work at the bench, and the schedule still shows it starting this shift.
The consequence reaches steel
The block loses its window, Physical build
The outfitting access on block B30 is a finite window. It moves, and every package sequenced behind it moves with it.
A named person holds, or proceeds, Human authority
Production release authority for B30 accepts the open gate in writing, or holds. VeldBuild computes the verdict; it does not release the work.
How VeldBuild answers it
Can WP-019 begin now? If not, which gate is open?
What it reads
- Scope
- One work package, its governing revision, declared predecessors, material kit, access state, quality gates, and assigned resources at a stated time.
- Records
- Work package scope and effective revision · Material kit and receipt acceptance state · Predecessor completion and acceptance · Area / zone release · Quality hold points and open nonconformances · Assigned trade and crew
- Evidence it needs
- Configuration release record · Material acceptance record · Predecessor acceptance record · Inspection plan and nonconformance state
What it computes
- Steps
- Check each of the six readiness gates against its record
- Never average an unknown into a yes
- Name the reason and the owner of the gate that holds
- Output
- Ready, not ready or cannot establish; the gates that hold it, their evidence, and who must clear each.
What stays with people
- Left unknown
- Missing, stale, or conflicting evidence
- Unestablished applicability or effectivity
- A gate with no attributable source or owner
- Decided by
- VeldBuild computes the verdict from evidence; it does not waive a gate by assertion
- A named production authority releases the physical work
What would prove it on real records
- Test
- Connect a bounded live work-package slice, compare verdicts with authorized human releases, and review false-ready, false-blocked, and cannot-establish cases.
Questions that usually come next
- Which readiness gate is binding, and who owns it?
- What has to change for the verdict to become Ready?
If your team answers this by hand, start with one work area.
Email the release decision, the systems that hold its records, and who owns it. Keep the first message non-confidential.