Use your crafter actions. Our crafting system is not the click-and-wait system you're used to from every other game. You have to do a specialized combat with the thing you're making. Your goal is to use Touch actions to raise the quality bar to increase the chance of HQ and Synthesis actions to raise the progress bar to finish the item. The craft does not end until you reach 0 durability (the synth breaks) or you fill the progress bar (the synth completes).