01 Answer first
Who decides whether water produced during commissioning may be released?
The buyer should name an authorized quality and product-release role that evaluates approved source, process, sanitation, packaging, traceability, sampling, laboratory, deviation, and local requirement evidence. Equipment operation alone does not release product.
02 Where it fits
Position in the project journey
Product trial — after wet commissioning and before authorized commercial production.
03 Buyer inputs
What the buyer should prepare
- Food-safety and product-release system
- Approved materials and laboratory resources
- Quarantine, deviation, and disposition authority
04 Allot Tech and manufacturing-resource inputs
What should be clarified or provided
- Ready equipment configuration
- Trial protocol support and machine evidence
- Technical response to findings
Allot Tech coordinates requirement, quotation and project communication. Detailed engineering, manufacture, testing, documentation and confirmed service are performed by selected manufacturing resources according to the signed scope.
05 Technical scope
Questions and work to control
Approve the Trial Purpose and Product Status
State whether the run supports setup, process verification, package qualification, training, sampling, performance testing, or another objective and define all material status.
Confirm Prerequisite and Commissioning Readiness
Verify approved source and process status, cleaning and sanitation, utilities, instruments, materials, people, traceability, laboratory, quarantine, and open-item controls.
Release Controlled Packaging Materials
Use approved bottle, cap, label, code, secondary pack, pallet, artwork, lots, storage, line clearance, and reconciliation for each trial SKU.
Define Trial Protocol and Sampling
Set configuration, sequence, duration or quantity basis, startup handling, inspections, sample locations, laboratory responsibilities, records, and stop criteria.
Maintain Lot and Product Traceability
Link source and process status, material lots, time, line, settings, operators, samples, rejects, quarantine locations, and disposition decisions.
Control Deviations and Affected Product
Identify, stop, segregate, investigate, sample, retain, dispose, or reprocess only as permitted under approved buyer and local procedures.
Make Release Authority Explicit
Name the buyer role authorized to assess complete evidence and release, hold, reject, or dispose of trial product under applicable requirements.
Feed Trial Findings Back Into Handover
Update settings, procedures, training, maintenance, spare parts, documents, risk controls, validation needs, and remaining acceptance actions.
Buyer questions answered
Practical answers before you request a quotation
Can successful machine running release the product?
No. Product release follows the buyer quality system and applicable local requirements, not machine operation alone.
Should trial packaging be production-approved?
Use the material status defined in the approved protocol and document any substitution and conclusion limits.
What happens to rejected trial water?
Disposition should follow approved site, environmental, food-safety, traceability, and local procedures.
06 Responsibility
Assign the owner before the work is due
Land, building and civil work, permits, import and customs, local taxes, site utilities, unloading, lifting, local labor, travel support and commissioning materials are not automatically included. Confirm every responsibility before order.
07 Common risks
What commonly creates avoidable uncertainty
- Trial product mixes with released inventory
- Equipment acceptance is confused with product release
- Material substitutions overstate trial conclusions
08 Acceptance or completion
How to know the stage is complete
Close the trial only when all product, material, sample, result, deviation, status, and disposition evidence is traceable and authorized.
09 Required documents
Records that support the decision
- Product-trial protocol
- Trial lot record
- Product disposition record
10 Next project step
Turn this decision into a reviewable project brief
Share the product, container, target output, destination and available site information. Unknown inputs can remain open for the first review.
Turnkey scope is project-specific and is defined by the signed technical and commercial agreement.