ANALYSIS OF A PART USING DYNAMIC SIMULATION AND REAL TIME EXPERIMENTS IN PART FEEDERS

In the modern industrial world, agility in manufacturing and assembly line is the key for improving the productivity. Segregation and feeding of parts in assembly line is important for reducing the manufacturing lead time. The segregation and feeding of parts are either done manually, which is a time consuming work or by installing robots with machine vision system, which is costly. To overcome this problem, Part feeders are used for feeding the parts in a single orientation. Trap is a system which changes the orientation of part and stores the part in an expected orientation. The objective of this work is to explore the real time monitoring and dynamic simulation of the trap in a part feeding system. An experimental setup fabricated to perform vibration analysis on the trap. The vibration analysis will help in determining the various frequency levels by conducting various trails during experiments. The work includes multi body dynamic simulation for a part on the trap. It helps to study the dynamics of moving parts in a trap. In this paper, a comparison is made between dynamic simulation and real time experiments, the outcomes show that there are strong similarities between the results of dynamic simulation and real time experiments.