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Rules and the Engineering Review
Why it matters
A drawing can look perfect and be wrong: a rack an inch through the roof, a fire path too narrow, a block of storage no aisle reaches. The platform checks the design all the time, so you find these on screen and not on site.
In plain words
Think of a careful senior engineer looking over your shoulder. They do not stop you working. They point and say "that one's 300 mm too tall, it needs one level fewer". That is a finding.
Every finding has a severity:
| Severity | Means |
|---|---|
| Critical | Breaks a hard rule: outside the building, overlapping, through the roof. |
| Major | Wrong for the operation: a dead-end aisle, a door nobody can reach. |
| Minor | Worth a look. |
| Info | For the record. |
And every finding names the number that fixes it, never just "error".
What gets checked
| Area | Examples |
|---|---|
| Boundary | An object outside the building; a road outside the site. "Move it 1 100 mm inside." |
| Collision | Two things in the same place; a machine across a room's wall. |
| Headroom | A rack top above the clear height, with the number of levels that would fit. |
| Flue and spacing | Flues under the AS 4084 minimum; aisles under the advisory minimum. |
| Access | A rack face with no aisle; a dead-end aisle; a route that runs through racking. |
| Fit | A load too wide, too tall or too heavy for its bin. |
| Site | A road leaving the site; a door without room for a truck in front. |
In Warehouse Studio
Issues
The inspector's Issues tab checks the whole layout on demand. Click Validate layout. The tab lists every violation with its severity and the object it concerns, or says No violations.
Some checks also run as you work. A zone drawn outside the building is refused at once, with the distance that would fix it.
The Engineering Review
The Review tab, also opened by Area on the Analysis tab, measures the design in nine dimensions:
| Dimension | Measured as |
|---|---|
| Capacity | Pallet positions. |
| Storage Density | Positions per m². |
| Travel Efficiency | Metres travelled per handling unit. Needs an operating profile. |
| Expandability | Share of usable floor still free. |
| Safety | Boundary, collision and hosting findings. |
| Compliance | Spacing, alignment and constraint findings. |
| Automation Readiness | Not available yet. |
| Cost Implications | Labour hours per operating day. Needs an operating profile. |
| Overall Engineering Score | Deliberately not given. |
Each dimension carries a status:
| Status | Means |
|---|---|
| OK | No finding. |
| Measured | A value, with nothing to judge it against. |
| Attention | Major or minor findings. |
| Degraded | At least one critical finding. |
| N/A | Needs something that does not exist yet, and says what. |
Why there is no overall score
A single score would have to weigh capacity against travel against cost. That weighting is a business decision, not an engineering fact, and the platform will not invent it. You see every dimension with its value and the drivers behind it.
Try it
In Sandbox, drag a storage zone so it pokes outside the building. Read the refusal. Then raise a rack spec's top beam above the clear height and read the headroom finding.
Words you just learned
Finding · severity: critical, major, minor, info · headroom · Engineering Review · status.