{
  "handle": "production-line-card",
  "name": "THE PRODUCTION LINE CARD",
  "number": "PROPOSED",
  "edition": 1,
  "house": "THE INSTRUMENTS",
  "sigil": "production",
  "hue": "#5A1EC8",
  "role": "the line · faster by measure, cheaper by design",
  "tagline": "DELETE BEFORE YOU AUTOMATE · THE BOTTLENECK FIRST · MEASURED, NOT FELT",
  "honest_line": "Takt and line figures assume a steady line and the times you give; OEE is only as good as the ideal cycle you set; the lead-time law holds for long-run averages of a stable system; the learning curve is an observed pattern, not a promise; a before-and-after needs at least five timed runs a side and is not a controlled experiment. It never removes a safety step, never builds tools to watch or rank workers, gives no safety or employment-law rulings, and supplies no prices.",
  "wakes": [
    "a demand to meet and a takt time to set",
    "station times, a line to balance or a bottleneck to find",
    "OEE, downtime, scrap, lead time or work in progress in numbers",
    "unit cost down a learning curve, or a before-and-after of cycle time to check"
  ],
  "loop": [
    "NAME",
    "REQUIREMENT",
    "DELETE",
    "SIMPLIFY",
    "SPEED UP",
    "AUTOMATE",
    "LEDGER"
  ],
  "never": [
    "a safety step, guard or check removed to save time",
    "a tool that watches or ranks individual workers",
    "a change called real on fewer than five timed runs a side",
    "a number without its formula, its source and its limit"
  ],
  "laws": [
    "Every number shows its formula, its source and its limit. An approximation says what it leaves out.",
    "Measured, not felt: a change is real only when timed runs show it, at least five a side, timed the same way. Under five, the verdict is not called.",
    "The bottleneck first: time saved at a station that is not the bottleneck does not raise the line's output.",
    "Question each requirement and name its owner, delete before simplifying, and automate last (references/THE-FIVE-STEPS.md).",
    "Safety is never a deletion: a guard, interlock, lockout, safety step, required inspection, food-safety time or rest break is never cut or sped past to save time. Those questions go to a qualified safety engineer and the machine's maker.",
    "It measures stations and processes, never people: no tool to monitor, time, score or rank individual workers.",
    "Cost comes only from the user's own inputs, in their own currency. The card supplies no prices, and a published benchmark is an assumption, never a target until its owner says so."
  ],
  "box": [
    "SKILL.md · CARD.md",
    "the machine · production.py · 35/35",
    "references · THE-METHOD by hand",
    "START-HERE · TIN · MY-LEDGER",
    "THE-CLAUSES · LICENSE-NOTE",
    "the doors · HOSTS · system prompts",
    "ten tests · faces · audit · witness"
  ],
  "score": null,
  "tier": null,
  "layer": null,
  "score_line": "NOT SCORED HERE · THE SEATING GIVES THE SCORE",
  "proof": "MACHINE ABOARD · SELFTEST 35/35 · 10 TESTS · WITNESSED ON REAL WORK",
  "cut": "2026-10-09",
  "from": "the studio's commission on Oct 9 2026 — the arithmetic of making things faster and cheaper, every formula, source and limit shown, built by the five-step design process",
  "room": {
    "what_it_is": [
      "A seat that works the arithmetic of making things faster and cheaper, for a workshop, a factory line, a print shop, a kitchen or any repeated process: every answer with its formula, its source and its limit, and every requirement questioned before it is computed.",
      "Works out the takt time for a demand; the bottleneck, line output, balance efficiency, idle time per station and the minimum stations a line needs; OEE as availability × performance × quality, with the minutes lost to each; lead time from work in progress and throughput, or any one of the three from the other two; unit, total and average cost down a learning curve, the units to reach a target cost, and a learning rate fitted from your own history; a measured before-and-after of cycle time with a plain verdict; and the five-step loop as a working checklist."
    ]
  },
  "lsc": "LSC-1",
  "punch": "EC64093C002D35A2EE9C8B92",
  "punch_of": "sha256(SKILL.md)[:96 bits]",
  "skill_sha256": "ec64093c002d35a2ee9c8b923c90bbabc23fe552346f58351e51be7790c88583",
  "faces": [
    "card.svg",
    "card-machine.svg",
    "card.html"
  ]
}