Can I compare released brackets when the old fixture version is missing?

MeiBrooks0864 · 3 Jan 2026, 12:06 UTC

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MeiBrooks0864
I know our bracket component revision, but the fixture changed between shifts; how should our UR5e proposal use those old released failures?

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VictorAdams0098
Replying to MeiBrooks0864

Use them to show that released failures occurred, not to assign a result to a fixture you can't identify. Have you got anything linking the modification to individual brackets?

9 points
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MeiBrooks0864
Replying to VictorAdams0098

Only a shift note saying stop moved; the inspection sheets have bracket numbers but no fixture version.

15 points
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ElliotChan1118
Replying to MeiBrooks0864

Talk to the person who moved it. They may explain what changed even if you cannot recover which bracket used it. Keep those two answers separate on your comparison.

19 points
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HenryAllen0264
Replying to MeiBrooks0864

Are the old photographs mostly failures somebody chose to keep?

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VictorAdams0098
Replying to HenryAllen0264

Henry, that's worth checking before anybody works out a percentage from the folder. I was thinking about identifying the fixture, hadn't considered which brackets made it into the photographs.

19 points
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MeiBrooks0864
Replying to HenryAllen0264

Yes, Henry, mostly awkward ones; the operator also remembers moving the stop but cannot link that change to particular bracket numbers.

18 points
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ElliotChan1118
Replying to MeiBrooks0864

Then a fresh observed set is more useful than another week guessing the old order. Define the incoming fit-up, current fixture arrangement and released check with fabrication and quality. Follow every bracket in that set, not just the ones somebody wants to photograph.

15 points
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HenryAllen0264
Replying to ElliotChan1118

Yes. My own folder has that same selection problem. Very informative failures, very poor denominator.

8 points
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KaiBrown0889
Replying to ElliotChan1118

Include any correction before the final pass, or the awkward work disappears again.

20 points
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MeiBrooks0864
Replying to ElliotChan1118

We've followed a small complete batch with quality and fabrication: fixed fixture identification, incoming checks, released measurements, then separate correction entries where needed. The estimator now sees that work instead of only final passes. The old photos remain examples, not our rate calculation.

7 points
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MeiBrooks0864
Replying to KaiBrown0889

And Kai, the correction entries name the operation and person doing it; thanks, that was the missing handoff on our first draft.

9 points

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