12-11-2014, 10:28 AM
Abstracts: In today’s world of rapid industrialization, mechanization and automation are becoming an integral part of industries in order to increase the rate of production, efficiency and quality of parts. One of the examples of these processes can be observed in automatic assembly workshops in automobile companies. Our primary goal to construct a rotary disc feeder machine for cylindrical parts but we also construct a piece counting mechanism in this machine for use of this machine in packaging process. Introduction of mechanized feeders is a basic step towards mechanization that help in easy sorting of parts and availability of parts at right place and at right time. They are now becoming an essential part of modern manufacturing systems. A physical prototype of a mechanized slotted rotary disc feeder was constructed and the behavior was studied experimentally by varying the speed of rotation of disc, number of parts inside the feed.