Define public categories for manufacturing process decisions

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A central idea in this repository is that manufacturing AI is most useful when it connects to real operational decisions.

This issue is for defining public, non-confidential categories of manufacturing process decisions.

Possible categories include:

• process parameter selection
• inspection decision
• accept / reject decision
• rework decision
• scheduling or routing decision
• material selection
• maintenance or intervention decision
• qualification decision

Useful contributions could include:

• examples from public or generalized manufacturing contexts
• clearer definitions for each decision category
• domain-specific decision categories
• suggestions for how these categories could be organized in a simple template