Manufacturing pilots are often built under ideal conditions: motivated teams, selected processes, strong support and direct access to specialists. Those conditions are useful for learning, but they can hide the real challenge.
The second factory changes the test. Different products, people, infrastructure and priorities expose assumptions that were invisible during the first implementation.
The second factory is often the real test.
Scaling requires more than technical success. It requires ownership, architecture, supportability, repeatable deployment, clear value and a design that local operations actually want to adopt.
The objective of a pilot should therefore not be only to demonstrate technology. It should be to discover the conditions under which the technology can become a standard.
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