Can't choose the FR5 position from this finished-blank sketch

MayaParts · 9 Aug 2025, 03:08 UTC

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I'm buying for another unloading proposal and the FR5 sketch gets our polymer blank out of the fixture but leaves the gripper off, with the open door taking up the space where I think the wrist would go; what do I need before accepting a base position?

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AnikaBennett0769
Replying to MayaParts

Ask for the loaded gripper, adapter and actual open door in one drawing, then have the integrator show withdrawal as well as the final pose

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MayaParts
Replying to AnikaBennett0769

They have added the fingers but not the adapter, which is listed as supplied to suit, so I still cannot tell where the wrist ends up.

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AnikaBennett0769
Replying to MayaParts

Supplied to suit needs a proposed shape before this choice can move on. Is someone actually designing that adapter, or is each supplier expecting the other to?

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MayaParts
Replying to AnikaBennett0769

Gripper supplier thought the integrator was doing it, integrator thought it came with the fingers; they have now agreed the integrator will provide the first assembly drawing.

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RebeccaAdams0169
Replying to MayaParts

Classic. Is that drawing included in your price?

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ZaraBrown0917
Replying to MayaParts

And can you still change the fixture with that base there? Ours looked fine until the setter brought the lifting aid round.

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MayaParts
Replying to RebeccaAdams0169

Rebecca, the design is included but manufacture was provisional; Zara, I have asked the setter to check the changeover space before we settle the position.

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LinBaker0444
Replying to AnikaBennett0769

Don't settle it from a single side view. We had a tidy-looking unloading line that ignored the door handle sticking towards the tool. Actual hardware is annoyingly three-dimensional.

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MayaParts
Replying to LinBaker0444

The fuller drawing shows a clash at the door handle, Lin, and the integrator has offered a farther base position or a different approach with the same base, both still being reviewed.

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RebeccaAdams0169
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Farther where? Towards a cabinet somebody opens?

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AnikaBennett0769
Replying to MayaParts

Compare both proposals with the complete tool, not the farther base with the old bare-blank sketch. Did the approach change also alter finger shape?

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MayaParts
Replying to AnikaBennett0769

Anika, same fingers and adapter in both proposals; Rebecca, farther along the machine side, where the electrical cabinet opens, so maintenance has that option to check.

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ZaraBrown0917
Replying to MayaParts

I'd keep the original base in contention then. Moving it sounds simple until everyone else's access moves with it. No preference on the robot motion, that's for your integrator.

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LinBaker0444
Replying to ZaraBrown0917

The original position can still be the worse option. Different approach might need more room inside the machine, so price both after somebody has checked the whole route.

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MayaParts
Replying to LinBaker0444

That is what I've requested, Lin; the revised approach needs checking past a fixture clamp, and the other position needs cabinet and setter access, neither has been accepted.

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ZaraBrown0917
Replying to MayaParts

Any news from the setter? That's the bit I'd like to hear about.

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RebeccaAdams0169
Replying to MayaParts

Does the farther option leave room to remove the cabinet panel too?

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AnikaBennett0769
Replying to RebeccaAdams0169

Rebecca's panel question belongs on the maintenance review. An open door can fit while the panel removal job still has nowhere to go

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MayaParts
Replying to ZaraBrown0917

Zara, the setter can change the fixture at the original position; Rebecca and Anika, maintenance ruled out the farther proposal because panel removal space is lost, so the changed approach is still under review.

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AnikaBennett0769
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Useful result, even without an arm decision. Has the integrator returned the clamp-clearance check for the remaining approach?

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