TonyBowen · 27 Feb 2026, 10:10 UTC
Does the tidy tray arrive filled, Tony, or does someone move your caps into it first?
7 pointsSomeone transfers them from our tray. That task is absent from the video and the quoted cycle.
17 pointsWe tried a lovely presentation tray at a packing bench. It did its job, but it became a second place to put everything before putting everything in the box. Is that transfer done once per delivery or once per small order?
22 pointsThe workshop tray may be the worse starting point, though. I would let a supplier propose a better tray, provided they show you what changing it actually costs.
12 pointsNina, each small order. The caps are already sorted into our tray before they reach this bench. Hana, I am willing to compare a new tray, but not a video that begins after the extra transfer.
10 pointsWe dropped a new-tray route when full-order costing exposed the preparation. Yours may be different. Could the upstream sorting use the new tray directly, rather than transferring twice?
21 pointsZara's question is worth asking before rejecting the tray, Tony, if the people sorting have any choice over what they use.
21 pointsAlso ask those people how they stack and return the trays. Our 'better' tray had a handle that made the normal return stack wobble. The drawing did not feature our irritated packer.
6 pointsSorting has looked at it. They need the existing tray for another check before it reaches us, so direct use of the proposed tray would mean changing that check too.
18 pointsThen the tray proposal has a larger scope than this bench. Could the supplier demonstrate with your tray before everyone redesigns sorting around its favourite pockets?
11 pointsThey have agreed to try the actual tray. I sent the corner-pocket examples as well as the easy middle ones.
11 pointsGood. Does the other candidate finish those corner pockets without someone repositioning a cap?
0 pointsAnd Tony, what happens to an incomplete tray at the end of an order? That's often the tray somebody forgets to film.
2 pointsZara, no repositioning in the supplied corner-pocket footage. Luca, the incomplete-tray ending is missing from both demonstrations. I have added it to the comparison request.
18 pointsThank you for asking sorting first. They usually get invited after somebody has already bought the tray.
20 pointsThe UR5e supplier's workshop-tray attempt could not complete one corner without manual help. We have removed that proposed tooling arrangement from the shortlist. The other candidate still owes us the incomplete-tray ending.
7 pointsA useful result even though it was a miss. Are they proposing different tooling, or leaving that option there?
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