I was ready to write a cheerful account of our UR5e spacer-block locator trial. The same tray was seated repeatedly and the supervised transfers looked more consistent. Then we brought a second tray into the job and had a missed pickup.
I'm already dealing with a seating question on a separate vision exercise, so I have kept both trays and the affected spacers here rather than simply repeat the successful arrangement. What would you want to know before calling the locator useful, even with a limited claim?
I'd call it promising on the first tray. We nearly removed a correction bench after a similarly narrow trial, so I would be careful about turning that into fewer checks for the operator.
You can still describe what improved. Say which tray, how it was seated and who prepared it. An honest positive result does not have to pretend the second tray behaved.
Same drawing revision and supplier, Jane. I have not measured the locating features yet. Hana, I prepared the first tray throughout, which belongs in the account too.
That's the part I'd want explained as another learner. Did you get good at giving it a little nudge before each run? I do that with fixtures and only notice when somebody else uses them.
Leon, fair enough, but I would put them together. Leading with only the miss can make a useful improvement sound worthless; leading with only the successful runs hides the changeover problem.
Tess, I did press it toward the stop before starting; no force needed, but it was a step I supplied. Ada, one locating face is hidden. The second tray's seating was not confirmed before that missed pickup.
Let the normal loader try the proposed seating check before you call it usable, because the person who built the locator already knows exactly where to look
That still leaves the second tray comparison, Jamie. A better instruction might help, but Caleb has not established whether the tray actually seats the same way.
Tooling has measured both now and found a difference at one locating feature. It is reviewing that against the drawing. I have kept the unconfirmed seating and that dimensional finding separate in the trial note.
Both are being worked on. My published trial note now says the first-tray result was encouraging and the exchange remains unresolved. No revised locator trial or operator handover has happened yet.