Component cartons supported by an imaginary sheet

Our planner, to make the drawing easier to understand. No material selected and no handling method proposed.

Then it is an unanswered design question, not a component. Remove the implied approval from the drawing before somebody quotes around it.

I would leave the idea visible as an option with those blanks stated. A support sheet might be worthwhile, but the planner should not accidentally become its designer and replenishment operator.

Agreed with Isabel. Cross out assumed support, not the possibility of asking packaging about it.

Compare it with a pattern that does not depend on that sheet, if packaging can propose one; that gives the additional material and handling something concrete to compete against.

Packaging can propose lower-count straight rows. They will also assess whether a specified sheet option is sensible. We've labelled both as candidates, with no accepted support result for either yet.

And price the sheet option only after its feed and empty-stack response are defined. The robot can't replenish a drawing annotation.

That work is assigned to the integration lead with packing involved. I've stopped the current tooling quote; it was silently assuming a sheet already beneath every turned layer.

That should make the next comparison more useful. Include partial layers in both candidates, since the support and access can change before the neat finished stack exists.