Why Launchbelt
Someone has to be accountable for the whole.
Distributed manufacturing fails at the seams: between the drawing and the shop, between shops, and between a problem and its recovery. Launchbelt is the orchestrator that owns those seams.
Where manufacturing breaks
Three seams. One orchestrator.
The same order, split across three shops. Without an orchestrator, every handoff is an open question. With Launchbelt, every seam runs through one accountable party and one record.
- Seam 1Which revision? Which requirement?Requirement locked, sent with full context
- Seam 2Is everyone building the same thing?Same revision, same inspection, same evidence
- Seam 3Who decides? Who tells the buyer?Recovery authorized, buyer date updated
What Launchbelt is
- Qualifies the network.
- Coordinates the decisions.
- Holds the record.
Launchbelt is the orchestrator.
- QualificationReviews and activates every partner shop, and checks each one against each requirement.
- OrchestrationRuns the Launchbelt Orchestration Engine across the network for every request.
- Trade-off assemblyTurns responses into real options with lead time, capacity, resilience, compliance and cost made explicit.
- AuthorizationDecides the plan. Only a Launchbelt authorization creates work.
- ContinuityHolds one record from drawing to receipt across every shop involved.
- Issue recoveryAssesses exceptions and authorizes rework, re-verification or reallocation.
- Network at scaleCoordinates many buyers, parts and shops at once, so each order is not a one-off project.
Responsibilities
What Launchbelt is accountable for.
Launchbelt takes responsibility for the decisions and the continuity of every order it coordinates: from the first qualification check to the final receipt.
- 01
Qualifies capability against each requirement
Checks every partner shop's process capability, compliance eligibility, declared capacity and schedule for each revision, and records the reason for every exclusion.
Validated in alpha - 02
Assembles options with explicit trade-offs
Turns qualified responses into single-shop and multi-shop plans with lead time, capacity, resilience and cost side by side.
Alpha demonstration - 03
Authorizes the plan and is accountable for it
The buyer states a preference; a Launchbelt authorization turns the chosen plan into awarded work.
Validated in alpha - 04
Stays on the record through execution
Every award, operation and status change is attributed and timestamped on the digital traveler.
Validated in alpha - 05
Authorizes recovery when conditions arise
Assesses reported conditions and authorizes rework and re-verification before units continue, with the date impact shown to the buyer.
Alpha demonstration - 06
Coordinates buyers and shops across organizations
Runs many parts across many organizations at once, with each organization's data kept to its own view.
Validated in alpha
Continuity
The record holds when the plan does not.
Launchbelt stays on the record through execution. When three units come off a machine with excess material, Launchbelt assesses the condition, authorizes the recovery and keeps the buyer's date honest. That continuity is the product.
