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Bay Sign

The overhead bay sign, designed from the driver's seat: a big raised code and a long-range barcode, tilted down from the truss toward the aisle. One sign per line of your list, blank for your own labels, or a rail frame with snap-in tiles.

Up to 12 characters each: letters, digits, dashes. The preview shows the first; the order is the whole list.

The tilt is set by the mounting flange: screwed or zip-tied flat under a beam or truss chord, the face hangs at this angle toward the aisle. 35° suits a sign 6–9 m up read from 8–12 m out.

From the driver's seat. A tugger runs the aisle with the driver's eyes about 1.5 m off the floor and the sign 6–9 m up on a truss chord, so the driver reads it from 8–12 m out at 30–40° above the horizon. The face tilts down to meet that line of sight instead of being seen edge-on; the code is set at the largest cap height the width allows (about 40 mm for six characters on a 240 mm plate — readable at 15 m); the Code 128 gets bars up to 2.2 mm wide and 50 mm tall, set flush into a matte face so an extended-range imager reads it from 10 m and more. Mounting: a flange along the top edge with four slots takes zip ties round a chord or #10 screws into a beam; the flange sets the tilt, so every sign in the aisle hangs the same. Two halves flange to flange make a two-sided sign for a cross-aisle. Modular: the frame carries two rails; character tiles (0–9, A–Z, dash) and a barcode tile slide in and an end clip locks them, so a re-slotted bay gets a new tile pack, not a new sign. Every sign prints flat, no supports, on one P1S plate.