Meth Production Line Automation Issues (Handlers & Chemists Bugging Out)

[JCon]

Hey everyone — hoping to get a discussion going around some frustrating bugs I’ve been seeing with my meth production setup. Curious if others have run into the same thing.

My Setup (Fully Automated, Mostly):

4 sets of ovens + chemistry stations, split into 2 production lines (1 chemists per line).

2 mixing lines with 8 mixing stands each — 4 chemists assigned to handle these.

4 handlers who:

Stock ingredients from the main ingredient shelves to individual mixing stands (each shelf holds full stock of a single ingredient),

Move the final mixed meth from the last mixing stand to the brick press, press it, and

Transfer the pressed bricks to a storage rack where it can be sold.

The entire process is automated, except I manually add meth ingredients into the chemistry stations to start the process.

Issues I'm Dealing With:

Handlers randomly stop stocking mixing stands from the main ingredient shelves — even when ingredients are available and mixing stands are empty.

Chemists occasionally just freeze up:

They won’t mix even when both required ingredients and meth are present in the stand.

Or they won’t move the mixed meth from one mixing stand to the next in the chain.

The only temporary fix I’ve found is saving and reloading the game. Sometimes this gets a few people back on task, but then someone else breaks. It's like the automation system loses track of itself and slowly falls apart.

Anyone else dealing with this? Is there a more permanent fix or workaround I’m missing? Would love to hear how others are managing larger-scale automated setups, as this is making me not want to progress in the game, since I cannot focus on selling/restocking inventory, as I am constantly trying to fix it the entire setup all day.