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Design And Implementation Of An Automated Pick And Place System For Johanson Technology, Inc., Alex M. Felker Apr 2011

Design And Implementation Of An Automated Pick And Place System For Johanson Technology, Inc., Alex M. Felker

Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Johanson Technology, a capacitor and microelectronic part manufacturer, located in Camarillo, CA has forecasted a 50% increase in demand for single layer capacitors for the year 2011. Johanson chose to hire an intern to design and implement a robotic pick and place system to meet this demand. A complete automated system composed of a Stäubli RS20 robotic arm, CS8C-M Controller, and Electrosort Bowl Feeder needed to be integrated into an environment where no system currently existed. A bill of materials and parts list indicated that the entire system would be a fixed cost of $50,104. This proved to be the …