Frequently Asked Questions

Roughly: a custom-tooled vibratory bowl is the best economics for one part at volume. A step feeder is right when the part is heavy, large, or would be marred by a bowl’s tumbling action, or when it has to be lifted from a waist-height load. A Bellco Flex platform earns its place when the part mix changes often enough that tooling a bowl per part stops making sense. Send us the part and the mix and we will tell you which one pays back.

Screws, caps, clips, connectors, stampings, implants, closures, terminals, machined components — metal and molded plastic alike. The deciding factors are geometry, weight and material rather than a size chart, so every application gets evaluated individually.

That is what vision is for. A camera over the track inspects each part in flight, and a purge gate recirculates anything facing the wrong way, so the pick point only ever sees parts that passed.

Yes, in a few different ways: multiple feeders on a shared baseplate each tooled to their own part, a single unit sized to run several variants of one part, or a Flex platform with vision-guided picking. Which one is right depends on the mix.

Typical lead time is 12–14 weeks from approved design to delivery, covering SolidWorks design, customer review, tooling fabrication, bowl manufacturing and full factory acceptance testing. Rush timelines are possible on critical-path projects — ask.

Always. Every system is modeled in SolidWorks and the complete 3D model goes to you for approval before we machine a single piece of tooling. Clearances, footprint and every interface point get verified on paper first.

Every system runs a full factory acceptance test at our Ohio facility on your parts, and it is video documented. You see the rate and the orientation demonstrated before the machine leaves.

CUH variable-frequency digital controllers (PNP) in a lockable enclosure, Keyence sensors including shortage sensing with full stopping function, SMC pneumatics throughout, and 110V or 220V power options. Sensors wire into an I/O block that drops into your existing equipment.

Bellco systems are typically priced 20–40% below traditional suppliers. We manufacture directly — no brokers, no middlemen — which lets us compete on price without cutting engineering time, material quality or testing.

One year, parts and labor, on every system. You also get direct access to the engineers who built it rather than a ticket queue.

Yes. Remote diagnostics are provided at no charge, and we can dispatch on-site support anywhere in North America. Installation assistance and operator training are available so your team is running quickly.

Often, yes — retrofit hoppers, escapements, guarding and controls are all things we have built onto existing machines. Send photos and the machine details and we will tell you honestly what is worth doing and what is not.

Yes. We build 304 and 316 stainless bowls with crevice-free, polished surfaces for cleaning and sterilization, specified for wash-down duty and GMP-compliant environments.

No. Escapements, hoppers, conveyors and manufactured parts are all available on their own.