Design and Fabrication of Step Feeder automation Machine for the Automobile Steering Ball joints

Abstract

Automation feeding machine helps to replace the manual feeding of the components to achieve the production rate. Even so, all industrialists have been trying to get 100% efficiency from every machine and to give more production. The production rate of the machine is depended on certain factors like feeding, accuracy, Manpower, etc. However, feeding is the most important factor, because the production will be fast only while the component is federal quick. This paper is providing an automation solution of feed ball joints for an automotive industry when the vehicle gathers the steering assembly. There were many feeding mechanisms available. Still, the ball joint is such a large component and should need a certain interval to feed it correctly as required. In this machine, the hoppers to be a trapezoidal tanks stores the sorted of long components. The two-step feeders consist of cylinders, which make the movement of steps. The steps that are used the EN-8 materials are used to make the feeder assembly, and those are connected with the cylinders that are used to construct the up and down movements, when the cylinder makes the forward and retracts motion. The steps scoop up the components and feed them to the additive chute. The linear chute transfers the properly oriented components to the singling unit feeds the components to the machine for making further operations.