Satisfactory

So, the factory's had some more time to prime up to 100% efficiency, but uhh.... it's still not there. Time for another round of auditing.

First thing I found was that these two Mk.2 belts carrying Rotors and Stators are being supported by Mk.1 lifts, on the under-side of these floor holes.

A little while of that running, but we were still under-producing Rotors.

Turns out that's because I got the sub-floor for Rotors and Stators backwards. You may recall that to fit on only Mk.4 belts, I needed 3 separate production lines of Wire. Two of those are supposed to feed two halves of Stator production, while the third, slightly-higher-volume one is balanced to feet Rotors. As you can see here, though, I've got two lines of Wire feeding Rotors.

This was a bit of a conundrum, because the third line of Wire is not here in the middle of the floor, with the other two, but waaaaay off on the right-hand edge. Not really feasible to re-route it. Ultimately, it ended up being simplest to just swap all the recipes and clock speeds in the machines, without actually rebuilding anything. The Rotors and Stators both run on Mk.2 belts, and go to the same machines making Motors, so I just had to spend a little time cleaning the belts out after making the swap.

Unfortunately, with those changes, we were STILL under-producing (Stators now, IIRC). That traced to an under-production of Iron Ore, seen here.

The Iron Ore for this factory is produced by 4 separate Impure nodes, one of which was only running at about 50% efficiency.

That there was why.

I THINK that's all the defects now, so time for some more cosmetics, while the system re-equalizes.

I was lamenting the fact that there are no build pieces in the game that can match the curve of a foundation, to serve as a railing, together with the fact that curved foundations are kiiiiinda the only option for accenting these Water Extractors, when I realized..... we actually DO have things that can curve now.

It's a little weird, functionally, to serve as a safety railing, but it doesn't look half bad.

Also built up a main entrance and power switch. First time actually getting to use a Priority Power Switch. I'll need to go back and retrofit all the existing factories, in the near future.

And a good start on the exterior facade.