The Bowl Feeder That Starved the Station A vibratory bowl feeder fed small screws to an assembly station. On the bench, it sorted and oriented the screws at 60 per minute. On the floor, it jammed. The screws backed up in the bowl, then dumped 20 at once into the track. The station couldn’t keep …

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