Experimentation Source 8 (Source)
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I believe the assembly part is a mirror image of the experimentation part. There's a formula for base chance for the assembly and an assembly roll. Since there are no clues there like the failure rate, it's much harder to find the formula. I suspect the base chance formula is based upon assembly skill, a resource stat and maybe the complexity. So far I don't think MA is used for assemblies, possibly OQ or maybe SR/UT.