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Development of Vibratory Part Feeder for Material Handling in Manufacturing Automation: A Survey.

The material handling is the art of moving, orienting, packing and storing the part. Industrial feeders are used to facilitate the operations by feeding the parts in a specific quantity and at a perfect orientation. It is a tedious task to obtain a particular part orientation, at the assembly station, in a short lead time. To overcome this problem, part feeders are used to segregate and orient parts prior to packing. The natural resting orientation of the part is the orientation in which the part rests on a horizontal hard surface, when dropped from a height. The most probable natural resting orientation of the part has to be identified which helps in the effective design of feeder and orienting devices. In this paper, an attempt was made to study the effect of initial orientation from different heights on natural resting orientation. Drop test was conducted at different heights with each initial orientation. The favorable orientation of the part (or) the most probable natural resting orientation is identified using drop test. In this work, most probable natural resting orientation of a typical asymmetric component, brake pad, is identified.

A Drop Test for Finding the most Probable Resting Orientation of a Part

Investigation on orientation effects of modified rocker arm for vibratory part feeder in assembly automation

A prominent problem in manufacturing automation is the accurate and reliable presentation of small parts, in a single specified configuration called desired orientation, to a work cell. This is often referred to as the \"part feeding\" problem. Currently, handling of sector asymmetric shaped parts is done either manually or by using expensive robot and vision systems, which cumulatively increase the production cost. In the present work the brake liner, a typical sector shaped asymmetric component is considered to develop a part feeding system. The proposed low cost part feeder system uses sensor less mechanical devices or barriers such as slot, wiper blade and balcony and edge riser, to eliminate or reorient the arbitrary orientation into a desired orientation which facilitates stacking. A complete set of such mechanical devices is called trap. It was observed that there are eight possible orientations for brake liners. Among these, highest probabilities occurring orientations (when falling from hopper) were identified. Four different configurations of trap were designed and fabricated to get the desired orientation at the outlet of the feeder. Markov model was developed for each trap to find its efficiency. With these traps, the initial part feeding efficiency of 38% was improved to 64%. This percentage can be further improved by re-passing the eliminated parts from the trap. Stacking module was developed for stacking the parts with desired orientation. A theoretical model called constant acceleration model was developed to estimate the part feeding velocity which should match with the actual production rate of the industry. This model was validated by conducting experiments. E-mail: udhaya_mech@yahoo.com

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