Our proposed use of Fairino FR10 is bag-to-carton placement with a filled sample bag in a small flexible packaging workshop, starting with 37.
Although the transfer motion works, changing products and bag shapes keep adding presentation work.
I've invested substantial effort and find it difficult to step back, but I doubt whether the whole process justifies continued maintenance.
@AmyCarter0989 What happens when you include fixture adjustment and operator help in the comparison with manual packing? That's the process you're deciding whether to keep.
Including fixture work and operator assistance leaves our manual baseline competitive.
The motion is repeatable after preparation, but preparing the changing packages keeps expanding beyond what we originally allowed.
Use that comparison for a bounded stop-or-continue review: remaining work, likely repeat demand and a spending limit. Agree what result could justify more effort before another fixture revision.
I'm struggling with how to treat the development we've already done. Although that effort can't be recovered, a stop decision feels as though it would discard everything we learned.
I stopped a separate packing trial after the inputs kept changing. Keeping the fixture drawings and observations helped me see a useful experiment instead of a missing success story.
Fair correction. The baseline supports a review, not an automatic stop. Compare the remaining work and demand first; closing is one possible result, not the assumed one.
Looking at the expected workload, I see little reuse of the demonstrated setup. That lack of repetition seems a stronger concern than the technical possibility of another tooling adjustment.
It's worth assessing as a separate, narrower proposal if the demand exists. Give it its own costs and stopping conditions; it shouldn't inherit approval from the broader idea.