Save yourself from Analysis Paralysis! There are two ways this can help dislodge the stuck engineer from making progress:

Delegation:

Use the "Delegate Area" zoning shortcut tool, and everything within that region will gain a free productivity bonus. However, you will be unable to change recipes or modify anything within it. Embrace the permeance, let go of fiddling around to get 1% more performance, and just work on something else. If you really do need to make changes, I recommend a gun.

Encouragement

Live production data is constantly being monitored, and you don't want to fall behind. Sitting around wondering about what to do next is going to result in full buffers, static belts, and idle machines. And an idle factory is an unproductive factory! Management won't let that happen, so they will send friendly encouraging messages in the game chat, and send someone for some micromanagement. I recommend a gun.

Adjustable Settings

• Adjust the delegate productivity bonus (20% default)
• Change how far behind you can fall before management intervention (80% of previous rate default). Warning: you can set values greater than 1 here, which results in needing to meet exponential growth targets.
• Change how often management checks in (10min default)
• Any splitting of checks in case of hitches observed when performing a check (10 chunks by default)

Created as a part of the Analysis Paralysis mod jam for May on the Foundry discord.