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A system and method for monitoring the configuration of component feeders in a placement machine having a series of feeder slots for holding the component feeders. The system includes slot markers for installation on the placement machine to correspond to the feeder slots, feeder markers for install

A system and method for monitoring the configuration of component feeders in a placement machine having a series of feeder slots for holding the component feeders. The system includes slot markers for installation on the placement machine to correspond to the feeder slots, feeder markers for installation on the component feeders of the placement machine, and a marker detector (e.g., a bar code scanner) adapted to monitor the arrangement of slot markers and feeder markers in the machine while the machine is in operation.

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A system and method for monitoring the configuration of component feeders in a placement machine having a series of feeder slots for holding the component feeders. The system includes slot markers for installation on the placement machine to correspond to the feeder slots, feeder markers for install

A system and method for monitoring the configuration of component feeders in a placement machine having a series of feeder slots for holding the component feeders. The system includes slot markers for installation on the placement machine to correspond to the feeder slots, feeder markers for installation on the component feeders of the placement machine, and a marker detector (e.g., a bar code scanner) adapted to monitor the arrangement of slot markers and feeder markers in the machine while the machine is in operation. els emanating from top edges of at least two of the sidewalls, for creating a closure of the top of the carton. 3. The carton according to claim 2, further comprising a top panel emanating from the top edge of each of the sidewalls, wherein at least two of the top panels have free edges operably configured to interlock with one another to provide a closure of the top of the carton. 4. The carton according to claim 1, wherein the first bottom panel and the first deployment panels are contiguous and monolithically formed. 5. The carton according to claim 1, wherein the second bottom panel is discontiguously formed with respect to the first bottom panel. 6. The carton according to claim 1, wherein the first bottom panel, the first deployment panel and the second deployment panel are contiguously and monolithically formed. 7. A carton, having a self-deploying bottom, comprising: four serially connected rectangular sidewalls, each sidewall being pivotably connected to the two sidewalls serially adjacent to it, so that the four sidewalls may be articulated from a substantially flattened orientation, to a set-up orientation, in which the four sidewalls are positioned in a rectangular configuration; a first bottom panel pivotably connected to a first one of the sidewalls, the first bottom panel having a first portion emanating along a first bottom panel first fold line from the first one of the sidewalls and a second portion, emanating from the first portion of the first bottom panel along a first bottom panel first fold line extending at an oblique angle to the first bottom panel first fold line; a first deployment panel pivotably connected to a second one of the side walls serially adjacent to the first one of the sidewalls, the first deployment panel having a first portion emanating along a first deployment panel first fold line from the second one of the sidewalls and a second portion, emanating from the first portion of the first deployment panel along a first deployment panel second fold line extending at an oblique angle to the first deployment panel first fold line; the second portion of the first bottom panel and the second portion of the first deployment panel being pivotably connected along a first deployment panel third fold line extending substantially normal to at least one of the first bottom panel first fold line and the first deployment panel first fold line, when the carton is in its set-up configuration; a second deployment panel pivotably connected to a third one of the sidewalls, serially adjacent to the first one of the sidewalls, at an end of the first one of the sidewalls opposite the first deployment panel; the second deployment panel having a first portion emanating from the third one of the sidewalls along a second deployment panel first fold line, and a second portion emanating from the first portion of the second deployment panel along a second deployment panel second fold line; the second portion of the second deployment panel being pivotably connected to the first bottom panel, along a second deployment panel third fold line to a third portion of the first bottom panel, that is in turn, connected to the first portion of the first bottom panel along a third bottom panel fold line that extends obliquely to the first bottom panel first and second fold lines; an inside surface of the first portion of the first deployment panel being juxtaposed to and connected to an inside surface of the second one of the sidewalls; an inside surface of the first portion of the second deployment panel being juxtaposed to and connected to an inside surface of the third one of the sidewalls; a second bottom panel, pivotably connected to a bottom edge of a fourth one of the sidewalls; whereupon when the carton is in its flattened configuration, the first and second portions of the first bottom panel are juxtaposed and parallel to the inside surface of the first sidewall, the third portion of the first bottom panel