I asked for the door and service space on our FR5 machine-tending layout. Got a revised sketch back with both, then noticed the pickup is still a dot on the end of the arm. We're transferring a short steel blank into a fixture. The blank fits through the opening, but the proposed gripper body hasn't been drawn at all.
I don't want another reach screenshot. I want the next review to include the thing we're actually buying and the setter who has to reach past it.
our reach sketch forgot most of the tool
ClaraArcher0350 · 5 Nov 2025, 06:44 UTC
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Replying to ClaraArcher0350
Has a gripper been selected, or is that dot hiding an undecided purchase?
15pointsReplying to SaraCarter0983
Undecided purchase, yes. Two bodies are on the quote. Same fingers in the sketches, which I am also not willing to take on trust.
3pointsReplying to ClaraArcher0350
You're right to question the shared fingers. Ask for each complete proposed assembly, with its adapter and the blank held where it would actually sit. A shorter body doesn't necessarily make the whole assembly shorter.
23pointsReplying to EmmaArcher0376
The supplier has assembly sketches for both already. They sent them after I asked specifically, rather than sending me the robot reach page again. The adapters are different.
14pointsReplying to ClaraArcher0350
Do both sketches show where the fingers release the blank, including the space they occupy when open?
13pointsReplying to ClaraArcher0350
And Clara, is the door shown at its actual working opening?
22pointsReplying to SaraCarter0983
Sara, yes, we measured that opening with the machine team. Owen, no: both tool sketches show closed fingers. I've asked for the open position and the loaded approach too.
18pointsReplying to ClaraArcher0350
The setter's access should get its own view. In our tooling review the close-up was useful, but you couldn't see where a person would stand to remove the assembly. Different question from whether the robot could put it there.
14pointsReplying to EmmaArcher0376
Emma, that is the bit a crop loses; even a correct tool drawing can leave the person outside the picture.
18pointsReplying to EmmaArcher0376
I've booked the setter into the layout review and kept both candidate assemblies on it. Still waiting for the open-finger drawings. At least the purchase decision is visibly open now, instead of disguised as a dot.
10pointsReplying to ClaraArcher0350
Good. Has anyone priced the two complete assemblies yet?
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