Separate the bag families first. I stopped a pouch application after its extra guide work swallowed the benefit, but that does not tell you every family in yours is equally difficult. What changes are actually consuming the time?

Are those families real repeat orders, or convenient trial samples you hope will become orders?

One repeat bag size, two changing shapes. The changing ones need guides altered and bags arranged individually.

On a job where only its author could restore the setup, the apparent transfer saving left maintenance carrying the awkward part, so I would record who can prepare and recover each family as well as the elapsed work.

Can you compare the repeat size separately without promising to automate the changing shapes?

Include the time to decide which route an order uses. A narrow application can be sensible, but not if somebody has to invent the selection rule on every shift.

Planner can identify the repeat size from the order. I've stopped new guide work while we compare that route.

Has the planner confirmed enough repeat work to maintain a separate route, not merely that it can be identified?

That affects the decision even if its individual transfer is quicker.

Confirmed recurring orders, but not enough to justify a dedicated new fixture budget on their own.

Then do not hide that cost in the mixed-shape forecast. Can the existing arrangement serve the repeat family under the supervised trial scope, without another development round? That is a smaller decision than continuing the whole proposal.

Existing arrangement can. Owner agreed to retain that bounded trial and stop development for the changing shapes.

Who will maintain the retained arrangement when you are unavailable, and does that person have the actual setup information rather than only the successful motion file?

That handover is unfinished. No normal-production claim; the retained trial remains supervised and limited to the identified repeat size.

Thanks for coming back. Keeping one bounded trial makes sense of the split decision.