An apparatus for producing pellets from bulk material, in particular soft bulk material provided with meltable fractions, for example waste, plastics material or household refuse. The apparatus comprises a pre-decoding unit, a shifter, first through M-th look-up table address registers, selector, a memory controller, a memory, and a memory searcher. A humidification fluid, originating from a bottle or bag, can be introduced in the interspace. The hub is provided with a vent and encloses a passage that is distinct from the lower drive element and that extends between the vent and the opening to allow escape of air from the volume to a region outside of the bowl. An associated panel assembly includes a conductive substrate panel having multiple separate device arrays comprising numerous electrical interconnect patterns each, a plurality of integrated circuit devices mounted on the conductive substrate panel, and a molded cap that encapsulates the integrated circuit devices and associated electrical interconnect patterns. A communication mechanism can be effectively derived from one or more query statements based on a mapping to the objects of the object-based system.