Getting past 'please send details' for Universal Robots UR5e - tray loading

DavidAllen0345 · 27 Apr 2026, 17:59 UTC

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DavidAllen0345
We bought an imported handling package from an unnamed seller through the Alibaba marketplace. It uses Universal Robots UR5e for tray loading with a machined polymer sleeve in a supervised tray handling cell and stops intermittently. My support report has been open for 50 days. The seller requested more information after receiving my phone video, and I need to understand what would narrow the fault down.

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YasminArcher0354
Replying to DavidAllen0345

The alarm text and sequence position would help focus your report. Do you've the alarm as displayed before restart, and can you place the stop relative to release?

11 points
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DavidAllen0345
Replying to YasminArcher0354

@YasminArcher0354 I now have the alarm indicating a missing process confirmation. Reviewing the unedited video places the wait before release, so my original description of a dropped workpiece was inaccurate.

21 points
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YasminArcher0354
Replying to DavidAllen0345

@DavidAllen0345 Correct the ticket with that alarm, the unedited clip and the installed versions. Ask which confirmation is missing and who owns the next diagnostic step.

7 points
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DavidAllen0345
Replying to YasminArcher0354

Should I preserve the original report when I correct it? Removing that wording might make it difficult to understand why support's existing replies focused on a drop.

14 points
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YasminArcher0354
Replying to DavidAllen0345

@DavidAllen0345 Leave the original account readable and add the correction prominently. Explaining that the unedited recording shows a wait before release gives support a reason to revise its diagnostic focus.

12 points
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OliverAbbott0015
Replying to YasminArcher0354

@YasminArcher0354 My own support case stalled because the robot and gripper contacts each expected the other to arrange the test. A named coordinator clarified who would organise the next action.

15 points
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DavidAllen0345
Replying to OliverAbbott0015

@OliverAbbott0015 Our correspondence shows a similar coordination gap. Both contacts refer me back to the other's response, and I can't find an assigned owner for the test.

15 points
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YasminArcher0354
Replying to DavidAllen0345

@DavidAllen0345 Given the missing confirmation, the gripper seems to be the source of the problem. I'd ask its support contact to lead the diagnosis.

20 points
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JackAli0254
Replying to YasminArcher0354

@YasminArcher0354 The alarm establishes that an expected confirmation wasn't received. It doesn't tell you whether the gripper, interface or sequence caused that, so it can't determine the diagnostic owner alone.

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YasminArcher0354
Replying to JackAli0254

@JackAli0254 I was too definite about the source. The package seller should coordinate investigation of the missing confirmation through the interface and bring in the relevant contacts without assuming a component has failed.

7 points
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AmaraBell0687
Replying to YasminArcher0354

Is that Alibaba support, then? I'm muddling the seller and the place you bought it.

9 points
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YasminArcher0354
Replying to AmaraBell0687

@AmaraBell0687 The unnamed seller who supplied your package. Alibaba is the marketplace; your technical request here is to the seller and their support contacts.

23 points
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DavidAllen0345
Replying to YasminArcher0354

Would you send every log I've? There are lots, and I don't know which ones cover the stop.

21 points
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YasminArcher0354
Replying to DavidAllen0345

Ask which diagnostic files they need and provide the ones you can tie to the event. Include collection context; unrelated bulk can hide the useful bit.

15 points
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OliverAbbott0015
Replying to YasminArcher0354

In my support case, descriptive attachment names made it easier for both support and me to locate the relevant recording. Generic revision names had made the collection unnecessarily confusing.

8 points
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DavidAllen0345
Replying to OliverAbbott0015

My report is more specific because I can identify the alarm and the wait before release. Support still needs to define how the investigation should proceed.

16 points
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YasminArcher0354
Replying to DavidAllen0345

@DavidAllen0345 The alarm and sequence position improve the report, but the investigation remains incomplete until support identifies the next action.

24 points

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