I put the second connector-family insert into our proposed FR10 carrier and it fitted. Then I turned it around and it still fitted. The designer wants bigger labels. I like readable labels, but these inserts will live beside one another and both recipes are on the same screen. I want the installed tooling and selected recipe to agree without relying on somebody remembering which near-identical pocket they fetched.
Lay both inserts and both part families out with the designer and loader first. Mark which wrong combinations physically fit. It's a cheap comparison, and it will tell you more than debating label size around a screenshot.
That nearly-right one is the unpleasant case. I'd photograph the actual seating from the loader's side, not just the flattering overhead view everyone keeps using.
Who chooses the recipe, Bruno? If one person changes the insert and another starts the job later, a label and a verbal message have quite a lot to carry.
Then distinguish orientation, installed family and selected recipe in the design review. Mechanical location may prevent reversal without identifying which family is fitted; a recipe label may name the requested family without checking the installed one.
Aisha, yes. I wouldn't order an identification device before that bench comparison, though. There may be a simple mechanical improvement worth doing regardless of the electronic check.
Harish, I'm happy with the bench comparison first. I just don't want 'cannot fit backwards' to become the answer to 'which family is installed'. They're different questions for the lesson too.
Agreed. Bruno, can the controls owner describe what should happen if the installed family cannot be read, rather than only if it reads as the wrong family?
The designer has proposed asymmetric location for orientation. Controls is looking at installed-family identification separately. No method chosen yet. The label move is included either way, thanks Anika.
For the eventual walkthrough, let the operator encounter a mismatch without the designer naming the cause first. I want to know whether the display tells them what is wrong and who handles it.
We've added the wrong family, reversal, unreadable identity, removal after checking and restart to the review examples. The nearly seated wrong housing stays in the physical comparison as well.
Does that restart example include a different insert being fitted while the application is off? Restoring yesterday's confirmed family would be particularly misleading then.
And keep a correct changeover in the comparison, Bruno. A solution that confuses the ordinary job will encourage people to invent shortcuts, even if it spots every carefully staged mistake.