Factory Launch Pipeline

This schematic shows how the factory changes an idea into a product on sale. Each box is a stage. The instrument in each box shows the work in that stage. Select a stage to see its tasks.

DMC VF-A-01-040A
SOP 4.4.0 · REV 2
LANGUAGE ASD-STE100
DATE 2026-10-14
Select a stage to see its tasks.
The pipeline from the scout to the sale, with the conductor, the blocker, the rollback path and the loops.
Now

All stages

Each stage shows its result for one normal launch.

Review passed → on sale

0 min

030 min target60

The clock starts when the review passes.

Time from review to sale
Before 2026-10-14about 45 min

The ship did all the tests again. It deployed 22 Workers one at a time.

Nowabout 20 min

The ship uses the merge result. It deploys 6 Workers at a time.

These times are estimates from the stage times. The next ship gives a measured time.

Work unit: idea, branch or deploy Return path: fix round or evidence Blocker: the branch waits Failure: rollback Lamps: working, done, problem
CAUTION Do not merge a new product before its launch check is satisfactory. If you merge it, main can contain a product that is not on sale.

Tasks per stage

Technical names

Conductor
The scheduled agent. It plans each run and starts the workflows.
Worktree
A separate copy of the code. One agent uses it for one task.
Main
The code that production uses.
Smoke
A short test of the live features on a copy of the system.
Blocker
A record of a missing item. It stops one task until the item exists.
Flag
A record that a change touches billing, sign-in, deletion or the gate.
Worker
A program on Cloudflare. Each business has one Worker.
IndexNow
A service that tells Bing about new and changed pages.