In comparison to the "conventional" feeding systems such as step conveyors and chain conveyors,

flexible feeding systems can frequently be adapted to new requirements / product types at the press of a button.

In many cases the retooling costs as well as the number of parts to change are signigicantly reduced in comparison

to what would be unavoidable for a type conversion on a standard sorting facility.

Here, components for advance material separation into singles - e.g. conveyors without sorting facility-work in

combination with robot and image processing systems.

In addition to the position detection system which the robot requires for determining its pick-up point, quite often

additional controls can be realised via image processing (workpiece geometry / type differentiation / incorrect part detection etc.).