GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE OF A VIBRATORY BOWL FEEDER FOR FEEDING BOTTLE CAPS

Manas Choudhary, Rishabh Narang, Pradeep Khanna

Abstract: Automation in manufacturing industry has now become essential as it helps meeting the ever-increasing demands quantity, quality, consistency and precision. In automated production lines, synchronization of different processes is of utmost importance to achieve the predetermined cycle times. Automation not only has resulted in the cost reduction but it has also resulted in wastage reduction. Assembly lines are extensively used in mass production units where economy of scales is exploited to spread over the cost of production over a large batch size. These assembly lines actually streamline the movement of product from one assembly station to the other in predetermined sequence so as to meet the deadlines. Feeders form an integral part of automated assembly and production lines. The present study is aimed at graphically analysing the performance of a vibratory bowl feeder with varying sizes of laminated bottle caps used in the pharmaceutical industry and other consumer goods industries. In this study, the desired outcome was the feed rate, and the various input parameters were – part population, part size, and frequency of vibratory bowl feeder. Results obtained from the experiment were analysed and conclusions were drawn to explain the effects of various parameters and to predict the behaviour of the feeder.

Keywords: Automation, Feeder, Cycle time, Feed rate, Graphical Analysis.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2018.0708013