Small Changes Yield Big Savings in Product Orientation
Early in the design stage of an assembly machine, the parts used in the assembly should be analyzed to determine how well they would feed in a vibratory feeder bowl. Take the ball bearing as an extreme example: this part will not feed up the spiral track in the feeder bowl. Another important consideration is how reliably a part will orient in a feeder. A part needs some geometry that allows the bowl tooling to tell one side from the other, or one end from the other. That so-called “checking point
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