We once inherited tooling adjustments that lived in the operator's head. Before deleting that bench from the process, find out how often it was used and what it corrected. Is the new proposal promising to remove that work?
Planning found bench hours against several batches. Quality is checking which readings came before straightening. Thanks, that helps explain why the layout question matters.
Has the welding lead explained whether the corrections were routine or confined to a particular material batch? That might change the space and staffing discussion.
We found one correction routine belonged to an obsolete bracket variant. Check the part references before budgeting all the old bench hours into the new job.