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News Release from: Elscint Automation | Subject: Feeding system for half bearings
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 13 September 2004
Novel feeding systems handles half
bearings
A novel feeding system for feeding half bearings of up to 90mm dia operates at variable speeds up to 60 pieces per minute in an oriented manner and operates unmanned.
Monish Shete, Director of Elscint Automation, the ISO 9001:2000 certified leading Vibratory Bowl Feeder manufacturer from India informs that Elscint has developed a novel feeding system for feeding of half bearings of various sizes Half bearings of up to 90mm dia or even more can be fed through this system
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 6 Dec 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The speed of operation or the feed rate can be up to 60 pieces per minute in an oriented manner.
He further informed that this speed can be varied through a potentiometer.
Additionally electronic controls are provided to synchronize the speed of the various components listed above in order to reduce the manual intervention and setting.
Two models are available, one with PLC control and a lower end model without PLC control to suit the customers' requirements and budgets.
The Elscint Small Parts (Conveyor) Feeder is used for recirculation of unused parts.
A special orientation device is used for orientation of the half bearings.
Up to 150kg of material can be loaded in the vibratory hopper.
This makes the system totally unmanned and the operator can be utilized to do some other work.
Shete further adds that this system has been found beneficial to various half bearing manufacturers all over the world.
It has helped improve productivity by almost 100% at most of the factories where it has been implemented.
In fact most customers order 10 to 12 units after buying and using one.
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