Our alternating FR5 dispatch pattern fits neatly, but some carton bearing areas sit over gaps; what would let packaging and tooling assess support and release in the same arrangement?
Show the packed-carton bearing requirements over the layer below and pallet, then the actual tool placing, opening and withdrawing around the neighbours. A top view can make the cartons fit without establishing either support or the hand's exit
And agree the placement order. On our separate proposal, keeping cartons unrotated helped support but made the opening awkward. A support improvement doesn't automatically give tooling a workable job.
Mina, did your team change the tool or the pattern after that opening problem? I would not assume either route is cheaper for Kai without seeing his arrangement.
Our comparison was still open when I described it. No accepted replacement from me. I'm pointing out the competing requirement, not recommending our unfinished arrangement.
Have them identify the allowed partial loads too, if dispatch needs them. A reinforced end over another carton in the full-layer picture can end up over nothing on an incomplete load
Packaging rejected the current rotated row on the normal full load because both end regions cross gaps; the integrator has proposed a lower-count unrotated row for the joint review.
That's the cost I wouldn't leave out. If the alternative needs more pallets, somebody moves and stores them. It isn't just a different rectangle pattern with the same throughput pasted underneath.
Dispatch will consider the extra movements but wants them costed; tooling has found the first placement accessible and is still checking the last, so the alternative remains provisional.
Then the original row is rejected for a stated support reason and the replacement has two live questions. That is already a useful purchasing decision; you needn't label the replacement approved just to make the review end with a green box