Four questions, one for each lesson in Part II plus one that ties them together. Work them without your notes. These are judgment questions: there's a right way to think about each one, not a sentence to memorize.
CHECKPOINT
L5 Think Like the PackageA customer's mix is 80 percent rigid cartons and 20 percent polybag mailers, and nobody flagged the polybags until now. Trace what a polybag does that a carton doesn't, at three points: accumulating against the package behind it, crossing a transfer, and reaching the scanner. Then say what its 20 percent share means for whether it belongs inside the automated system at all.
L6 The MTBH and the Design EnvelopeA customer's data shows a minimum package at 8 percent of volume, a standard rigid carton at 85 percent, and an oversized carton at 7 percent that would push the conveyor two sizes wider. How do you approach the design envelope? What's your recommendation for the oversized carton, and how do you present that recommendation so the decision stays with the customer?
L7 The Product Decision ChainWalk the decision chain in order for a three-carton mix and name which package drives roller centers, which drives belt width, and which drives the maximum incline angle. Then a twist: the customer reveals the operation is actually built around an AutoStore grid feeding pack stations. What does that change about which calculator is the authority, and what do you do next?
L5-L7 IntegrativeYou're handed a filled-out Product Spec Calc and an MTBH table for a project you've never seen, and the numbers all check out. Before you trust the design, what three things do you check about how those numbers were produced, and what would tell you the engineer sized the system around an outlier instead of the operation?
YOUR RIVERSIDE WORK SO FAR
Deliverable
Quality Criteria
MTBH table
All four Riverside products captured
Minimum, typical, and maximum documented for length, width, height, and weight
A volume-distribution column present, not just a range
Packaging type recorded for each product
Design-driver package identified: Standard Case, 78 percent
Design envelope recommendation
Inside-the-envelope range stated explicitly
Outlier candidates named, Small Case and Large Case, with the cost of including each and the consequence of excluding it
Tall Case addressed and kept in the envelope, flagged for the decline in Lesson 14
Recommendation made, the exclusion decision left to the customer