Optical QC: one station for both presses, after the cooling racks

User, 18 Oct 2026: for now one QC station for both machines; let the
records cool in a queue before testing them.

- inline-optical-qc.md "Where it sits": launch setup. Spindle stacks
  from the Duplex system and the Classic, labelled at the press (press,
  stamper set, first and last cycle), cool in FIFO racks (24 h accepted
  practice, 8 h at the shortest, Stamper Discs; about one day of output,
  2,800 to 3,100 records); the finishing operator feeds the station from
  the cooled stacks. Gains: warp and centring measured on settled records
  (the release value), one station instead of two, no Classic unloader
  change, no warm-record sag or thermal camera. Cost: defects found hours
  later, covered by the Duplex operator, per-cycle telemetry and an early
  lane for the first records of each run and after stamper changes.
  Record key from the stack label and stack position, checked against the
  run-out stamper number. Capacity 10 to 12 a minute against 5 to 6:
  one station to about two Duplex systems and two Classics. A station at
  each press stays the later option. Cost table, open points, infeed row,
  thermal camera note and the Newbilt question follow.
- Fleet calculator: the per-press stations and the release station are
  gone; the finishing block shows the cooling racks with record stacks
  and the one optical station by the corridor glass; tooltips, corridor
  and conveyor texts; machine park back to its legend, finishing box
  "cooling, QC, packing".
- quality-automation.md layer 1, digital-factory.md QC row,
  process-flow.md stage 6, site-candidates.md block ground floor,
  crane-workshop-tours.md tour stop 6.
- Investor render: infeed label "the operator sets each cooled record
  down".

Checks: node --check; pw_bp_calc.py 0 fails; pw_iso_view_check.py OK;
info for every data-id at all presets, levels and rotations; GF nodes
2,414 at the full preset; zoomed shots in two rotations.

docs/process-flow.md

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ flowchart TD
 | 5 | Stamper prep | Concentricity and dimensional checks after punch, back-finish, and coining; visual inspection | |
 | M | PVC intake (parallel input) | Material lab gate per lot: certificate of analysis, moisture, heat stability, color, density, granulate physicals; new lots released only by test pressing; regrind stream passes its own contamination gate before joining the 80/20 mix | |
 | L | Labels (parallel input) | Print inspection of each label lot against the approved proof; labels pre-dried in the oven before they go to the press (moisture in the paper causes bubbles); label lot logged per press cycle | |
-| 6 | Pressing | Bottom label, cake and top label are loaded between the stampers every cycle, so the labels are pressed into the record; press telemetry logged every cycle; then per record: 100% inline optical inspection (including label identity and centering); sampled automated audio comparison against the source master | Artist/label approves the test pressing before the production run |
+| 6 | Pressing | Bottom label, cake and top label are loaded between the stampers every cycle, so the labels are pressed into the record; press telemetry logged every cycle; then per record, after cooling: 100% optical inspection (including label identity and centering); sampled automated audio comparison against the source master | Artist/label approves the test pressing before the production run |
 | 7 | Finishing | Trimming quality; inner sleeving; shrink wrap on sampling basis | |
 | 8 | Packaging | Incoming carton QC per delivery (dimensions, print Delta E against approved proof, seam strength, inner sleeve scuff check); assembly verification by scanning the runout matrix code against the jacket barcode; barcode verification on every unit | |
 | 9 | Fulfillment | Consignment assembly against the order's bill of materials; carrier tracking recorded per shipment or per dropshipped end customer | |