How to make Smart Plating in Satisfactory

As you progress in Satisfactory, you’ll gain access to new types of machines, components, and tools to upgrade your factory. Many of these new items have additional crafting requirements, one being a component called Smart Plating.

After five years in early access, Satisfactory is finally at its 1.0 version. With its full release comes loads of new content like the final tier of technology, new tasks, fresh structures, and the opportunity to expand your factory even further. 

To successfully progress, however, you’ll need Smart Plating. Once you finish Phase One, you’ll be tasked with sending a bunch of deliveries using the Space Elevator, and Smart Plating is a vital part of the process. But how can you make it? 

Satisfactory 1.0: How to craft Smart Plating

You need an Assembler to craft Smart Plating in Satisfactory. As for the ingredients, you’ll require a single Reinforced Iron Plate and one Rotor. A single Reinforced Iron Plate can be crafted using six Iron Plates and 12 boxes of Screws, while you can make Rotors using five Iron Rods and 25 boxes of Screws.

While you can always add these ingredients to the Assembler by hand, where’s the fun in doing manual work in Satisfactory? Let’s get to automating Smart Plating. 

How to automate Smart Plating in Satisfactory 

You can automate Smart Plating in Satisfactory by using two conveyor belts to transport Reinforced Iron Plates and Rotors to an Assembler, which will produce the component we want. Here, however, one of two scenarios is possible; either you’ve already automated the production of the two base components, or you haven’t. 

If it’s the former, follow the steps given below:

1. Expand your conveyor belt lines for both Reinforced Iron Plates and Rotors and feed them to an Assembler. 
2. Select the Smart Plating recipe in the Assembler.
3. Click on the red button above “Standby” in the machine. 
4. Connect it to your power grid. 

On the other hand, if you’re yet to automate the ingredients, you can use the following layout to save time:

1. Collect some Reinforced Iron Plates and Rotors.
2. Build and place two storage containers where you want your Smart Plating setup to be. Ensure that their output slot is facing the same direction.
3. Fill one of the containers with Reinforced Iron Plates and the other one with Rotors.
4. Build an Assembler in front of the storage containers, with its two input slots facing your storage containers.
5. Use conveyor belts to transfer both ingredients to the Assembler.
6. Select the Smart Plating recipe, start the Assembler, and connect it to your power grid to begin the production process.

Unlike every other craftable component at the earliest stage of the game (aside from fluids, alternate recipes, equipment, and late-game particle accelerator recipes), Smart Plating cannot be made using a crafting table. So, automating the resource as soon as possible can be the key to your factory’s growth in Satisfactory.