If you can make a pick and place you'll have no problem advancing the tape. Your going to have to hook up to whatever software your using to run the steppers(emc2 or mach3 I would imagine), use there api and everytime a piece is taken you advance the tape. Also you have to program where the items are in the first place. If you have a little programing experience it shouldn't be to hard or maybey it's time to learn? Plus I'm sure someone has the whole process documented maybey...Also rotating the head is important which adds another axis and when you pick and place sometimes it's not perfectly aligned so a little feedback is needed...usually from a camera but i've seen other ways of dealing with that online.