The loose access panel in our supplier's vacuum test was lying on wooden strips. Our panels arrive together in a stack and the nest supports them near the edges. I can see why the test was easy to arrange, but it leaves out both ends of my job.
I want a small comparison using our panels before we order tooling. What would you include first? I do not want to buy a detector and only then discover the panel sags into the nest.
Those can be checked in the same visit. I would bring ordinary stacked panels, the intended nest and examples of the surface condition you accept. Ask the tooling person to show the pickup and the released panel. A seal reading by itself leaves a lot between those two moments.
Rosa, they can visit with their test equipment. Nina, I would be the person clearing it. Our setter is also coming because she sees the stacks before I do.
The visit found two problems. A second panel followed the top one on one pickup. On a separate single-panel pickup, the unsupported corner caught the nest lip. Both are visible in the recording. The setter said that corner bend is still within what our inspection accepts.
Was the corner bent before pickup, Fiona? I mean the same corner on the same panel, not another example from the stack. That would help the tooling person distinguish the incoming shape from what happened during handling.
It was bent beforehand. We photographed it on the bench and kept that panel. Thank you for making me check the identity; I nearly answered from the next one.
Henry's question matters even if the check works perfectly. The proposed hold position needs a defined recovery with room for the person and the sheets. I would ask the integrator to show that alongside whatever double-panel check they propose.
Gabriel, they propose a thickness check and will demonstrate known single, double and uncertain readings. Henry, the first hold position blocks access. The integrator has moved it in the layout, but that version has not been tried.