A robotics team's homemade Onshape-to-shop board lets a part release once it has a material and a part number. Nothing tells the shop that the material is a placeholder, the quantity looks wrong, or the part has no description. Those problems surface at the machine, after someone has already cut stock. People also type the same part number three ways and write 1/2 inch in one title and 0.5 in another.
Recurring agent failure issue in hawk-shop (FRC2713)
What engineers report
A recurring agent failure problem in hawk-shop (FRC2713) that mostly hits the mechanical designer.
Failure pattern: validation / failure
Analyst note
From the Grok pain-radar digests, Nov 9-10 2026 (Nov 9 7:41 AM ET through Nov 10 7:41 AM ET digests plus the Haitch editions). Verified live 2026-11-10: issue/PR read; title and state confirmed.
What it costs a team
Modeled annual cost
$30,000
For a team of 5
Prototype delay
3 days
Modeled schedule slip per occurrence
Time lost
240 min
Per engineer per month, about 1 incidents
How the cost is modeled
240 min/month × 5 engineers × 12 months = 240 hours × $125/hour = $30,000
A modeled estimate with medium confidence. Swap in your own team size and loaded rate to size it for your team.
Engineering tools that address it
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Evidence
More recurring errors in hawk-shop (FRC2713)
- A robotics team's shop tool writes part numbers into Onshape, but its own spec says a member can receive a success message even when Onshape rejected the write, and the verification read never checks the value. The browser and server cache keep showing the old number, leaving members uncertain whether a part is ready for manufacturing.PLM · impact 74
- Roughly half an FRC bill of materials is purchased, not manufactured: motors, bearings, sprockets, belts, swerve modules, chain, fasteners. The team's Onshape-to-shop board only tracks parts released from a Part Studio, so the purchasing half of the season still lives in whatever spreadsheet it lived in before, and nothing connects the drivetrain needs 8 of these to we have 5 in the cabinet.PDM · impact 74
- Every Onshape call spends an annual allocation that cannot be topped up. Thumbnails cached by URL show an old picture of a part that has since been redesigned. Plan is microversion keys and webhooks.MCAD · impact 66
- Onshape gives a fixed yearly API allocation and returns 402, not 429, when it runs out, which stops the connector until the year resets. Nobody can answer how close the team is to the limit without the admin page. A student changing the connector cannot tell which quirks are documented by Onshape and which were guessed from one observation.MCAD · impact 66
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