5DesignforHighSpeedAutomaticAssemblyandRobot.ppt

5.11 PRODUCT DESIGN FOR ROBOT ASSEMBLY Bulk material handling costs are negligible compared with cost of manually loading individual parts one-by-one into magazines, pallets, or part trays. 3 significant factors needed to estimate cost of part presentation: Special-purpose feeders: cost of a special-purpose feeder, fully tooled and operating on the robot system, is assumed to be a min of $5000. Actual cost of a feeder, for a particular part, can be obtained from the data presented earlier in this chapter. Manually loaded magazines: cost of one set of special magazines, pallets, or part trays f