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There’s a moment that happens on a lot of automation projects. The system gets installed, the client walks the floor for the first time, and someone says: ’I didn’t realise it was going to be that close to the wall’ or ’How is a technician supposed to get to that gearbox?’ or ’the operator can’t actually see the process from where the panel ended up.’

None of these is a failure of engineering. The drawings were correct, the dimensions checked out, and the design was approved. They’re failures of visibility; the review process didn’t give the people in the room enough spatial clarity to catch so...