Advent designed, built, and installed a custom tool that fit in the existing workcell to semi-automatically insert these five pins. The time consuming step in this process was picking each pin and manually positioning it into the appropriate cavity. Advent proposed using a vibratory feeder bowl to feed and position the pins into a “speed loader”. The speed loader, once filled with a compliment of pins, was manually removed from the tool nest, positioned over the transmission, and manually triggered to eject the pins into the cavities.

This tool dramatically increased the productivity of the workcell. In addition, the five pins were detected as they fell into the speed loader, ensuring that five pins were correctly inserted into the transmission.