Developed in 1990 by Europlacer and now adopted by most manufacturers. The truly intelligent feeders record the component identity, inventory count and pickup correction so the machine can confirm it picks the correct component reliably.

As the creator of intelligent feeders Europlacer has designed its machines specifically to be integrated with the feeders rather than treating them as “bolt on”.  To benefit from intelligent feeders the machine must be able to enable high throughput when feeders are not in optimised positions.  The Europlacer turret head and machine architecture are critical to enabling this potential to be released.