I've found two pad bags from the same supplier with one description and different drawing suffixes, and our FR5 housing pickup has been getting less square; how do I establish which set belongs on the tool before stores orders more of the wrong thing?
Ask the tooling owner to match the fitted assembly to its drawing, including any shims or spacers. The bag description won't settle it, and the suffix difference might matter somewhere you can't see from the outside.
The fitted pads match neither bag label cleanly, because someone has put the removed set into the newer bag; I am enjoying this less with every discovery.
That is painfully familiar. Put the loose sets aside with their actual condition noted, not their assumed job. Can the supplier distinguish the two versions by a dimension or feature your technician can check?
They've identified a relief on the newer pad, so maintenance can distinguish the loose sets; still waiting for the assembly revision that tells us which is intended.
The relief is useful for stores. It doesn't explain the leaning housing yet. Has anyone checked whether the housing is already tilted in its pickup pocket before the fingers close?
Priya, agreed. Louis, I wasn't suggesting the new bag held the cure. I meant a way out of your identification problem before it gets multiplied by another purchase.
Priya, it sits flat in the inspected pocket, but one fitted pad has a packed shim absent from the current drawing; toolmaker is checking whether that was an authorised change.
And leave the saved pickup edits available for that discussion. If the shim comes out of the intended assembly, whoever reviews the program needs to know what people had been compensating for.
Will you come back with the pad decision? I'm curious whether the newer relief was a genuine design change for your housing or simply another version that wandered into the stores bin.