I watched the supplier lift one access panel from a bench, which is what its seal report describes. Our job starts with a stack. The quotation never says who separates a panel, how the tool supports it away from the cups, or how the receiving station knows it got only one.
The first spreadsheet called all of that automatic. I have taken the word out, but I still need a fair comparison between a more complete tool proposal and keeping some preparation manual.
Keep both options. We once nearly deleted a correction bench because the successful demonstration began after its work. Your manual preparation might be sensible; the problem is that nobody has priced or described it yet.
Agreed, Nora. Paying a person to separate panels doesn't automatically solve support during transfer. Luis needs the actual tool-and-panel arrangement assessed whichever preparation route he chooses.
Luis, can the supplier show where the panel lands and releases? I would not want the operator separating it at the start and then peeling it off at the other end.
Rebecca, useful question. I would also ask what the proposed single-panel check measures and what happens when its answer is uncertain, rather than accept a sensor name on the quote.
The supplier is revising the receiving and release proposal, Rebecca. Ravi, it has named a possible check but has not explained its limits or uncertain result. Those are now explicit questions, not included features.
The integrator will define it with our production lead and controls owner. We also need the operator involved in the manual-preparation comparison, so I have asked for one joint review of both proposals.
Take a representative stack to that review, not a row of already separated perfect panels. Otherwise the meeting can repeat the demonstration's convenient starting point with better paperwork.
Have they supplied the missing support view since, Luis? The options may still be commercially open, but that view would help you understand whether either tool concept is ready for a representative trial.