Author : Tushar Deshmukh

Automation plays vital part in industries to increase the productivity and quality. With automation higher demand of customers can be achieved within time limit. It not only reduces human efforts and time required in the production process but also improves the quality of the product with maximum efficiency. Vibratory bowl feeders are used to achieve this goal. Vibratory bowl feeders plays crucial role for reorientation and feeding components into assembly process. This paper illustrates the design, optimization and analysis a vibratory bowl feeder for feeding flat components like screw. The existing path of the feeder was modified to restrict multiple feeding of screw and their
orientation. By varying input parameters such a as frequency of vibration, length of screw and part population the
feed rate is studied. Results obtained from the experiments are studied and conclusions are drawn about the effects of various parameters on the feed rate.

Keywords: Automation, Mechanical feeders, Vibratory Bowl Feeder, Flat components, Orientation

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.7, No.5 (Sept/Oct 2017)