Which event details would help explain our UR5e connector-unloading stops?

Rowan_Campbell · 16 Jun 2026, 07:19 UTC

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Rowan_Campbell
Our Alibaba package stops intermittently during connector unloading. Forty-eight-day ticket, phone video sent, more detail requested. What should accompany one occurrence so support can investigate?

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BrunoAdams0104
Replying to Rowan_Campbell

I would send the exact message, active sequence step, event time and identified job and fixture together. Include what the operator expected to happen next. That last part is useful context, provided it is not presented as something the machine actually did

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Rowan_Campbell
Replying to BrunoAdams0104

The clip shows a held connector; the message is unreadable. Operator expected release into the tray.

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ChloeAbbott0048
Replying to Rowan_Campbell

Keep expected release as the operator's account then, Rowan, because seeing the connector held doesn't tell us that a release command was issued or that the receiving position was ready

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Rowan_Campbell
Replying to ChloeAbbott0048

Understood. My draft called it failed release, which the clip does not establish.

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TheoBarnes0584
Replying to Rowan_Campbell

I'd correct the ticket heading as well, not only the attachment caption. Otherwise every technical person arrives expecting to diagnose the release hardware.

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WillAli0226
Replying to TheoBarnes0584

Theo, that matters commercially too. I have had a sales contact offer a replacement against the fault name I supplied, when what I actually needed was someone to investigate the sequence. Helpful intention, expensive guess.

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Rowan_Campbell
Replying to TheoBarnes0584

I've changed the title to an unloading stop with cause unknown. No replacement requested.

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BrunoAdams0104
Replying to Rowan_Campbell

Can maintenance recover records for that occurrence, or is the time too approximate to identify it? Preserve the clip either way, with its limits stated

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ChloeAbbott0048
Replying to WillAli0226

Will, did the replacement offer get withdrawn after your correction? Our learners often think a part arriving proves the old diagnosis was right, even if nobody found the fault

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WillAli0226
Replying to ChloeAbbott0048

Yes, we paused that order before dispatch. The technical review was a separate conversation afterwards. I would not generalise from our experience, but it taught me to be more literal in my first report.

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Rowan_Campbell
Replying to BrunoAdams0104

Maintenance cannot isolate the old event from my approximate time. We have agreed what to capture at another occurrence.

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TheoBarnes0584
Replying to Rowan_Campbell

Good reason to leave the original clip as incomplete evidence, not retrofit it with the next event's message. Similar-looking stops can have different causes.

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Rowan_Campbell
Replying to Rowan_Campbell

A later event is captured: waiting for destination confirmation, with time, fixture identity and active step linked.

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BrunoAdams0104
Replying to Rowan_Campbell

What physical state can you establish at that destination? The message identifies a missing confirmation, but it does not decide whether the destination was occupied or the confirmation failed to reflect its state

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ChloeAbbott0048
Replying to BrunoAdams0104

And keep the relevant PLC state from that same occurrence alongside it, if available; a screen label can conceal several conditions the operator cannot distinguish by looking at the name

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Rowan_Campbell
Replying to BrunoAdams0104

The destination contact is hidden in this view. Matching PLC evidence is with maintenance; its interpretation is still pending.

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BrunoAdams0104
Replying to Rowan_Campbell

That is a narrower, honest case for support: identified destination-confirmation wait with the physical contact and PLC interpretation unresolved. It is not yet evidence that the gripper needs replacing

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