Priced an FR5 and gripper for fixture unloading. Left the fixture work and everyone's time as vague bits. Colleague has noticed, fairly loudly. Want a small pilot for our 38 spacers that we can both judge without me waving at the arm price again.
What does your colleague think the pilot should answer, Oscar? They might be worrying about being left to keep it going, while you're trying to demonstrate that the spacer can be moved.
Include him operating it after an agreed handover. Give him paid time for that work and record the help he needs. A demonstration run with you beside him will not answer his concern.
He's willing if we agree a limit on further fixture work first. I hadn't set one. The prototype has been borrowing little pieces of the toolroom's time.
Start with a measured manual baseline before buying pilot tooling. You can agree what preparation, unloading, changeover and clearing mean with a stopwatch and the people doing the job.
We now have a baseline including clearing for the next product, and agreed a fixture allowance plus staff-hour cap. My colleague has the same authority to stop the trial as I do. No trial run yet.
Inside it. Separate line so we can see where the hours went. Thanks Luis for the independent-run idea; that changed what we are asking the pilot to prove.
Let us know whether he can complete the agreed job and changeover without you taking over. Record any assistance honestly; it may show a small handover repair or a much larger support requirement.