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How to Evaluate Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) When Selecting a Feeder System...

Some companies focus only on the upfront costs of a feeder system project, when the long-term factors have a much greater impact on TCO and ROI. 

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How Does a Centrifugal Feeder System Work?

Centrifugal feeder systems are designed to ensure manufacturing processes are achieved with a high level of efficiency. But how do centrifugal feeders work?

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Make a Feeder System Work for Any Part with a Modular Centrifugal Feeder

How Can You Make One Feeder System Work for Any Part? Just use revolutionary modular centrifugal feeder system by Hoosier Feeder Company.

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4 Reasons You Need a Thorough Parts Feeder System Machine Manual

Feeder systems are complex. You need instructions to understand the full breadth of capabilities and how they operate. Here are four reasons you need a thorough parts feeder machine manual.

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Why R&D Testing Prior to Feeder System Build is So Important

Building a house without a blueprint is foolish. Building a parts feeder system without up-front research and development (R&D) follows the same off-kilter logic. Without a plan and research –...

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How to Enhance Your Consumer Packaging with the Perfect Parts Feeder System

Innovation is great for consumers, but makes packaging manufacturing and assembly processes more complex. Our centrifugal and vibratory feeders are designed to support complex packaging requirements,...

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Automotive Manufacturing Best Practices – Creating the Perfect Vibratory...

Feeder systems ensure all the parts of your car correctly get where they need to be to ensure assembly proceeds smoothly. Head rests, speedometer needles, clips in your seat belt – Hoosier Feeder...

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Follow Us On Social Media

Thank you for being a loyal customer or friend of Hoosier Feeder Company. We are now on social media; please follow us on Youtube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Google +.

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10 Questions to Answer before Starting Your Vibratory Feeder System Project

Here are 10 questions you need to have answered before you begin a vibratory feeder system project.

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What Are the Most Important Components and Features of a Vibratory Feeder...

Hoosier Feeder Company creates vibratory feeder systems for several industries, including automotive and consumer packaging. A quality vibratory feeder system enables companies to sort even the most...

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What are the Different Types of Parts Feeder Systems?

Unless you’re in the business, keeping track of the many varieties of parts feeder systems can be daunting. And if you currently use feeder systems in your business, understanding the difference among...

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2016 Pack Expo Packaging Trade Show & The Assembly Show

Below is our up-to-date schedule for 2016 trade shows and industry leadership events that will be attended by Hoosier Feeder Company. If you’d like to meet with us during one of these events, please...

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Common Mistakes Companies Make When Implementing a Centrifugal Feeder

Companies from a variety of industries often make the same mistakes when planning, designing, and installing a centrifugal feeder system. You can avoid these same issues, which will cost significant...

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15 Reasons to Select Hoosier Feeder Company for Your Next Feeder System Project

Hoosier Feeder Company is a family-owned business that has built a reputation for creating and installing trusted and reliable systems across multiple industries. Here are 15 reasons you should choose...

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How a New Feeder System Can Reduce Manufacturing and Assembly Costs

The cost of doing business always seems to be on the rise. Fixed costs are never quite “fixed” and variable costs shift as soon as you get them under control. Without careful assessment, your...

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Hoosier Feeder Transitions to New Facility

Hoosier Feeder Company has consolidated its operations and moved into a new facility to meet our continuous growth. Our new headquarters is more than 40,000 square feet, which enables the company to...

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Hoosier Feeder Partners with New Castle Career Center

High school students looking to get a head start on their career can now enroll in courses through the New Castle Career Center (NCCC) at New Castle High School. Seventeen programs are currently...

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8 Reasons Why You Should Work with Hoosier Feeder Company

As a family-owned business, Hoosier Feeder Company has established an impeccable reputation for being a trusted source for building and installing parts feeder systems. Here are 8 reasons why you...

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Understanding Linear Feeders and How to Choose One for Your Project

Linear feeders play an essential role in the manufacturing process. They are used to accumulate and convey oriented parts from a feeder bowl into downstream equipment. Hoosier Feeder Company offers...

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Choosing The Right Feeder System

Parts need to go from Point A to Point B for manufacturing. You know you need a feeder system to make that happen, but you’re not sure what type of feeder system is best for your product. Vibratory or...

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The Brothers Behind The Name

Brothers, Greg and Chris Shombert, are interviewed about Hoosier Feeder Company.

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Interview with Will, a Hoosier Feeder Project Manager

Will is a Project Manager at Hoosier Feeder Company. He joined the team late February 2017. His job responsibilities include facilitating timely completion of feeder system builds, acting as liaison...

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2017 Pack Expo Packaging Trade Show & The Assembly Show

Below is our up-to-date schedule for 2017 trade shows and events that will be attended by Hoosier Feeder Company. If you’d like to meet with us during one of these events, please contact us today.

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Hoosier Feeder Company purchased the assets of Industrial Feeding Systems (IFS)

Hoosier Feeder Company is excited to let you know we have recently purchased the assets of Industrial Feeding Systems (IFS) based in Beech Grove, Indiana. These assets include all job files, machine...

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Hoosier Feeder Company purchased the assets of Quality Systems

Hoosier Feeder Company is excited to let you know we have recently purchased the assets of Quality Systems in Wilkinson, Indiana.

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3D Printing at Hoosier Feeder Company

Additive manufacturing (3D printing) is quickly becoming a staple in all kinds of industries, and we found the parts feeding sector to be no different. What we do here at Hoosier Feeder Company...

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How to Define Parts Feeder Systems Effectiveness (Or Quality)

Hoosier Feeder Company understands what makes an excellent feeding system and has the experience to guide you through your purchase. We offer our insight to ask the right questions and give you...

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Why Should I Automate My Product Line?

Here are seven reasons why you should automate your product line

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New Hoosier Feeder Training Center Showroom and NDA-Shop

Since moving into our new facility in late 2016, Hoosier Feeder Company has been growing to embrace the additional space and the capabilities it affords. An exciting project we are working towards is...

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Hoosier’s Sam Tollett awarded Mike Rowe Scholarship

One of the many efforts led by this organization is the Work Ethic Scholarship Program that, in 2017, hand selected 259 hard-working students in the entire United State to receive scholarships to help...

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Validating Feeder System Performance

Hoosier Feeder Company understands the value of production time and the detriment down-time can cause. That is why before your feeding system leaves our facility, we ask ourselves, “How can we make our...

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We Welcome Jim Minchin to the Team

Adding members to the Hoosier Feeder team is always an exciting step. It means that we are growing as a unit and need some additional manpower and expertise to help fulfill our goals and promises to...

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New System for an Existing Line

As new projects roll in, we are confronted with a variety of challenges that vary as much as the different parts we are challenged to feed. Many times we are tasked to design and build feeding systems...

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Hoosier Feeder Company Celebrates 10 Years

Hoosier Feeder Company took the time to celebrate 10 years together as the family we are, away from work and the stresses it brings. We celebrated together on Lake Monroe this October and enjoyed food,...

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Noise Control for Vibratory Feeders

Vibratory feeders are inherently noisy machines. Electromagnetic coils pull and release metal blocks beneath the bowl, usually between 60-120 times per second, to drive part movement causing the parts...

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Feeders for Everyday Projects

While it is extremely unlikely that a vibratory or centrifugal feeder ends up in a household, chances are, a feeder has played a much larger role in the production of goods you find in your house every...

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Our HFC Vibratory Feeder was Delivered. Now What?

In many cases, the arrival of a feeding system to a machine-build is an important stepping stone, as many parts used in the process originate from these feeders. Additionally, the pressures of an...

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Why Vibratory Feeder Projects Fail (And how to prevent it)

Vibratory feeders appeal to many applications, however there are some that provide to be more troublesome than others. At Hoosier Feeder Company, we like to ask questions up-front to fully understand...

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Vibratory Feeder Vocabulary

At Hoosier Feeder Company, part feeders are our “bread and butter”, and we interact with these machines every day. As the parts feeding industry has grown over time, so has the language that is used to...

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How HFC Feeders Help Grow Your Company

Depending on the size of your current operation, adding part feeding systems can be a sizable investment into your company and as a result may require some careful consideration. Anytime you invest...

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Hoosier Feeder Company Flex Feeder

Robotics in the manufacturing industry has changed the way we make our things as a society. From programmed welders on car assembly lines to palletizing robots at the end of a packaging line, robotics...

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Choosing the Right Kind of Hopper or Elevator

The functionality of any feeding system stems from, of course, the vibratory or centrifugal style feeder itself. Even though a hopper or elevator is sometimes an overlooked accessory to the system, it...

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Centrifugal Feeder Vocabulary

Here are some common “vocab” terms that we at Hoosier Feeder Company commonly use to discuss our centrifugal feeder systems so that you can have a deeper understanding of what we do.

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HFC Feeds Parts for Vision Inspection

Hoosier Feeder Company builds feeding systems for a vast number of different processes in the manufacturing realm. One process that is not immediately associated with manufacturing is part inspection....

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Mentorship at Hoosier Feeder Company

For years, there has been a growing shortage of skilled labor in virtually every industry. The well-intended countrywide push to educate young people was pigeonholed to college degrees and bypassing...

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New Employee Spotlight – Nathan Craig

Our most recent addition is Nathan Craig, an IUPUI graduate and our newest Mechanical Design Engineer.

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HFC Releases Heavy Duty Feeder

Centrifugal, or rotary, feeders are not typically known for their ability withstand heavy, hard, or sharp parts. Rotary style feeders generally thrive with light-weight plastic parts that would deform...

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Wagons for Warriors

At Hoosier Feeder Company we get excited about our employees’ efforts and adventures outside of work as much as their efforts inside of our facility.  We are especially excited when those efforts put...

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HFC 2018 Trade Show Circuit

Trade shows are important parts of any industry, and that surely doesn’t exclude the process automation and manufacturing industry.  These shows offer a unique opportunity to gather customers,...

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An In-Depth Installation

Planning a new production line or retrofitting an old one comes with many challenges.  From process planning to machine layouts and facility limitations, there are challenges at every step of the...

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