Thirteen polymer blanks, one FR5 reach sketch without the tool

CarlaBrown0923 · 16 Jun 2026, 17:28 UTC

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CarlaBrown0923
Our proposed unloading job reaches the fixture on paper, but the drawing leaves out the gripper and open machine door. I want a complete access review before choosing the FR5. What belongs in it besides the point we keep circling?

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LeoAbbott0014
Replying to CarlaBrown0923

I'd ask the integrator to show the complete held assembly through approach and loaded exit, with the installed door position included, because the point can be reachable while the tool cannot leave with your blank.

12 points
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DeanBowen
Replying to CarlaBrown0923

Get the door's actual parked position. Opening width alone doesn't show where the handles and fittings end up.

2 points
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ZaraBarnes0569
Replying to CarlaBrown0923

And name the tool revision. I've been collecting these questions for my own review, and fingers drawn separately from an adapter seem to leave everyone imagining a different assembly. Still no winning layout to offer you.

23 points
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CarlaBrown0923
Replying to ZaraBarnes0569

We have a finger concept, not a complete tool drawing. The machine outline shows the opening but no parked-door fittings. Neither missing item has been checked elsewhere.

-2 points
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LuisBennett0782
Replying to CarlaBrown0923

I would bring the setter into it now. They may need the same opening when changing the fixture, so a base position that suits the robot can still make the ordinary changeover awkward.

12 points
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JuliaBaker0500
Replying to LuisBennett0782

Luis, I would ask them to show the whole task, not just point out where they stand. Carrying the fixture in, removing it and dealing with a part left behind all need space.

5 points
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GeorgeCarr
Replying to JuliaBaker0500

And ask which of those tasks the intended operator actually performs, so the review doesn't give everyone the setter's access assumptions

21 points
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JuliaBrown0935
Replying to CarlaBrown0923

Who owns collecting those comments into the candidate layout? Useful questions can still become three independent approvals, none covering the actual shared space. I'd keep the drawing owner explicit before the next price revision

3 points
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TobyAdams0144
Replying to JuliaBrown0935

JuliaBrown, exactly, and I'd ask who triggers another review if the tool changes later; a layout approval can survive in purchasing long after the assembly it described has disappeared.

15 points
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GabrielBrooks0801
Replying to CarlaBrown0923

Would a rough side view help first, before paying for a full model?

7 points
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LeoAbbott0014
Replying to GabrielBrooks0801

Gabriel, useful for exposing missing geometry or a clear clash, provided it's dimensioned from the intended arrangement; I wouldn't ask it to establish every orientation and clearance through the whole path.

8 points
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CarlaBrown0923
Replying to JuliaBrown0935

The integrator will own the combined drawing. I've asked for the complete tool, door survey and setter's task to be brought together, with the rough view used to find questions rather than sign off access.

1 points
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DeanBowen
Replying to CarlaBrown0923

Keep service access marked too. Someone eventually needs to reach those fittings when the cell isn't performing its nice normal sequence.

12 points
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ZaraBarnes0569
Replying to DeanBowen

Dean, do you mean the tool fittings or the machine service panels? Both are easy to leave out, but I would send those requests to different people.

10 points
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DeanBowen
Replying to ZaraBarnes0569

Both. Tool supplier for its service requirements, machine maintenance for panels and removal space. I should have separated those.

1 points
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CarlaBrown0923
Replying to DeanBowen

The door survey is back, but the tool assembly is still incomplete. No measured clash yet and no alternate base proposal. I've passed the separate service-access requests to the right people.

12 points
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TobyAdams0144
Replying to CarlaBrown0923

That last distinction matters: no measured clash because the model is incomplete is not the same thing as a completed model showing none.

4 points
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JuliaBrown0935
Replying to TobyAdams0144

I would leave the candidate price provisional on that basis, Carla. Not rejected, but not a purchase recommendation supported by an access result either

18 points
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CarlaBrown0923
Replying to JuliaBrown0935

That's how I'm recording it. We have better inputs and an owner now, not evidence that this arrangement works.

7 points
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GabrielBrooks0801
Replying to CarlaBrown0923

Please post what the complete tool changes. Interested whether the original position remains worth assessing.

18 points

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