A Factory-Floor Deployment Case Study of VLA Pipelines for Industrial Packaging Task: Workflow, Failures, and Lessons
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies have shown promising manipulation capabilities, yet their practical impact is often limited by the reliability demands of real-world deployment. We present a deployment study of an industrial packaging task at Siemens Factory (GWE, Erlangen, Germany), where a robot must pick a transparent accessory bag from a cluttered pile, insert it into the remaining cavity of a cardboard package, and ensure that the bag and its contents remain below the closing plane. Our goal is to understand the practical effort required to adapt a pretrained Pi0.5 policy to a single factory-floor task through iterative fine-tuning and deployment-driven refinement. The pipeline consists of repeated loops of data collection, curation, fine-tuning, evaluation, and targeted recovery data collection. We have accumulated 2535 episodes (10 hours) from the on-site factory settings. In this paper, we contribute an empirical account of a factory-floor VLA deployment, highlighting recurring failure modes and lessons that inform how to improve the deployment workflow.
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