Crooked housings after repeated point edits

MayaChen1171 · 28 May 2025, 23:12 UTC

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MayaChen1171
Our shared FR5 tray station has had several pickup edits. Housings still come up skewed sometimes. I need a maintenance handover, not another saved position. What should we inspect first?

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NinaBennett0762
Replying to MayaChen1171

Inspect the tool mount, fingers and tray location. Save the current program and change history before anyone edits it again. Do the physical checks with the equipment safely isolated.

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MayaChen1171
Replying to NinaBennett0762

Saved them. Tray has a corner locator and a spring catch. Nobody has checked the catch since the first teaching change.

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JamieBrown0904
Replying to MayaChen1171

I'd start there. We once kept checking a tray against its locator while holding it against the locator with the measuring hand. It looked wonderful. Let go and the gap came back.

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MayaChen1171
Replying to JamieBrown0904

Catch holds the tray down but there's sideways play. Maintenance is measuring it against the fixture drawing. Haven't found movement at the tool mount.

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NinaBennett0762
Replying to MayaChen1171

Check the fingers as well. You may have a tray problem and a gripping problem together.

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KaiAdams0106
Replying to MayaChen1171

Any replacement parts already ordered? Worth pausing a speculative gripper purchase while this is checked.

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MayaChen1171
Replying to KaiAdams0106

No purchase raised. Someone suggested a new gripper; that's all.

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KaiBrooks0802
Replying to MayaChen1171

The permitted tray movement needs to come from the fixture design; I cannot say from the description whether the movement you found is excessive.

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MayaChen1171
Replying to KaiBrooks0802

Drawing calls for location against both faces. Worn catch isn't holding the tray there. Toolmaker also found uneven wear on one finger insert.

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JamieBrown0904
Replying to MayaChen1171

Two jobs, then. I wouldn't spend ages trying to crown one the winner while the other stays worn. Photograph both for the handover so the next person knows what you actually found.

14 points
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NinaBennett0762
Replying to JamieBrown0904

Repair both, yes. But keep the checks separate. Otherwise you won't know what to look for when one wears again.

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KaiBrooks0802
Replying to MayaChen1171

Ask the tooling designer to include the replacement inserts and tray catch in the setup review, since the accumulated pickup edits may no longer suit the repaired arrangement.

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MayaChen1171
Replying to NinaBennett0762

Catch replaced, inserts pending. Toolmaker checked tray location afterwards and it matches the drawing now. No handling trial yet.

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JamieBrown0904
Replying to MayaChen1171

That's useful progress. Has somebody taken ownership of the point edits, or are those still going to be everyone's favourite version?

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MayaChen1171
Replying to JamieBrown0904

Our integrator owns that review. Thanks for the measuring-hand story, Jamie. It got us to check the tray without helping it sit nicely.

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KaiAdams0106
Replying to MayaChen1171

Did the inserts turn up, or is that now the hold-up?

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