**2. Materials and Methods**

This section describes the systems used to address the low and the high quantity component feeding problem. To solve the former a flexible robotic workcell was developed and experimental tests were performed to find the mean time for a pick and place operation. This is described in detail in Section 2.1. To solve the high quantity components, three configurations were modeled and by mean of simulations was evaluated the impact of some parameters on the system performance. The system analyzed is described in Section 2.2 and the sensitivity analysis of the model is presented in Section 2.2.1. The simulation is treated in particular in Section 2.2.2 and the vision inspection system in Section 2.2.3.
