How did our UR5e price comparison lose the people filling its trays?

Nadia, and count that internal trainer's time. I have seen people call it free because the person is already employed, which is wonderful until somebody asks who is doing their normal job.

Our trainer is one of the operators, Elliot, and her cover is currently absent from the estimate; Nadia, I am asking both suppliers to price the same changeover and recovery training scope.

An undecided method needs a proposal, not just a larger allowance.

Victor, I would still show an uncertainty range where there's a described method with some unknown fitting time. Otherwise the comparison looks empty until every last screw is priced.

Yes. Range for defined uncertain work. Not a substitute for deciding what the work is.

Elliot, that distinction helps with training too. We can estimate cover once the tasks and people are named, even if the exact practice time needs an allowance.

Emma, the first supplier now describes manual tray filling at this bench; Victor and Elliot, that gets its own estimated labour range with assumptions, while the unresolved fixture design stays a named open item.

Is filling continuous as the robot consumes trays, or a preparation task before the order? That changes whether your operator can do the other work you've assigned them.

Emma, continuously replenished trays, so the staffing assumption is being revised; Nadia, those responsibilities are now separate lines in the comparison, not hidden under guarding.

Good to catch the replenishment before buying. Does the revised plan still let that operator cover the adjacent station, or was that only possible in the first spreadsheet?

Dinesh, keep the unknown fixture cost visible in any total you circulate.