Getting past 'please send details' for Universal Robots UR5e

MayaChen1171 · 16 Apr 2026, 12:39 UTC

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MayaChen1171
Our imported package uses Universal Robots UR5e for tray unloading with a rigid plastic housing in a small parts assembly workshop. It stops intermittently. I've been waiting 22 days since reporting it to the unnamed seller we bought from through Alibaba. I sent a phone video; they asked for more information. Fair, but what would actually help?

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MinaArcher0424
Replying to MayaChen1171

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?

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MayaChen1171
Replying to MinaArcher0424

@MinaArcher0424 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.

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MinaArcher0424
Replying to MayaChen1171

@MayaChen1171 Send a corrected description supported by the exact alarm, full recording and installed version details. Ask support to identify the expected confirmation and assign responsibility for the next diagnostic action.

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MayaChen1171
Replying to MinaArcher0424

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.

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MinaArcher0424
Replying to MayaChen1171

@MayaChen1171 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.

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JaneAdams0162
Replying to MinaArcher0424

@MinaArcher0424 On my setup, the arm and gripper contacts both thought the other owned the test. Naming one coordinator helped us get an actual next step

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MayaChen1171
Replying to JaneAdams0162

@JaneAdams0162 I've checked our messages. Same gap here: each contact asks what the other said, but neither has assigned the test.

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MinaArcher0424
Replying to MayaChen1171

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

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AishaCarter1040
Replying to MinaArcher0424

You're jumping from a missing signal to a failed component. It could be the interface or sequence. The alarm doesn't assign ownership by itself.

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MinaArcher0424
Replying to AishaCarter1040

@AishaCarter1040 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.

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OmarChan1100
Replying to MinaArcher0424

@MinaArcher0424 Is that Alibaba support, then? I'm muddling the seller and the place you bought it

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MinaArcher0424
Replying to OmarChan1100

@OmarChan1100 I mean the business that sold you the package through Alibaba. The marketplace and that seller have different roles; this technical coordination request goes to the seller's support arrangement.

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MayaChen1171
Replying to MinaArcher0424

@MinaArcher0424 I've several logs but haven't established which capture the event. Is sending the entire collection useful, or should I narrow the attachment set?

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