Manufacturing and industrial evaluation patterns

Manufacturing evaluation patterns — primitive ratio, span rules, GEPA labeling, cadence.

Recommended primitive ratio for manufacturing AI: 65/25/10 — deterministic rules, code assertions, judges. Process safety, regulatory specs, and sanctions screening are rule-bound; defect taxonomies are taxonomy-coded. Judges are reserved for operator-readability and explanation quality.

Primitive ratio

Primitive	Share	Why
Deterministic rules	65%	Sanctions screening, spec match, safety SOP citation, manual-version match
Code assertions	25%	Per-class P/R, drift, false-pass floors, country-of-origin
LLM judges	10%	Operator-readability, explanation quality, faithfulness to manual

Pattern table

Scenario	Primary primitive	Specific check
Predictive maintenance — RUL calibration	Code assertion	Predicted vs. actual time-to-failure
Predictive maintenance — critical-asset escalation	Rule	Always-escalate for high-criticality
Predictive maintenance — citation	Judge	Recommendation grounded in failure mode
Quality — per-class P/R	Code assertion	Tracked separately per defect class
Quality — critical defect	Rule	Stop-and-hold for safety-critical
Quality — drift	Code assertion	Daily vs. golden image set
Supply chain — sanctions list	Rule	Every supplier OFAC/BIS/State checked
Supply chain — spec match	Rule	Substitution meets regulatory spec
Supply chain — country-of-origin	Code assertion	Verified database match
Field service — manual-version	Rule	Cited manual applies to machine
Field service — safety procedure	Rule	LOTO/PPE requirements present
Field service — out-of-scope	Rule	Refuse outside documented scope
Operator copilot — advisory only	Rule	AI never auto-applies set points
Operator copilot — handover completeness	Code scorer	Required fields present
Operator copilot — plain language	Code scorer	Reading level for operators

Span rules

• asset.lookup — machine ID, model, criticality classification

• manual.cite — version, section, applicability check

• sanctions.check — supplier-list match

• spec.match — regulatory-spec verification

• defect.classify — per-class scores

• recommendation.advisory — flag confirming advisory-only status

GEPA labeling

For each manufacturing judge, label ≥ 50 paired examples:

• Operator-readability: Floor ops + safety team labels

• Field-service faithfulness: Senior techs + OEM trainers label, cover ambiguous troubleshoots

• Recommendation grounding: Reliability engineers label against failure-mode database

Run judge optimization with budget="medium". Hold out 20%.

Cadence

Cadence	Activity
Per-deploy	CI gate runs scenario suite (rules + assertions)
Per-shift	Critical-asset alarm summary; quality drift report
Daily	Sample production traces; full evaluation
Weekly	Sanctions list refresh; spec-match audit
Monthly	GEPA re-optimization; manual-version refresh
Quarterly	Full process-safety audit; OSHA / EPA RMP prep
Annually	Recall-readiness drill; OEM-bulletin refresh

See also

• Manufacturing scenarios

• Manufacturing compliance

• Recipe: GEPA basics