PACKING LINE CONTROL USING MICROCONTROLLER

SYNOPSIS

To increase the productivity and to overcome skilled labour shortage,

most of the manufacturing industries are going for automation. The main
aim for us to select this project work is to acquire practical knowledge in the
field of automation using microcontroller.
We

selected

PACKING

LINE

CONTROL

USING

MICROCONTROLLER as our project work and we used principles of

Mechatronics in developing this project.This project consist of two
conveyors, the first conveyor(feeding conveyor) is used to feed the job and
it is mounted above the second conveyor(packing conveyor) .The packing
conveyor feeds the packing box .The jobs are feeded from the feeding
conveyor to the packing conveyor through the IR sensor which is used to
count the job while feeding to the packing box.
When the switch is pressed, the packing box slides on the packing
conveyor and the packing conveyor is stopped by the magnetic sensor at
packing station. The jobs are fed by the feeding conveyor to the packing
box through the IR sensor which sends the signal to the microcontroller. The
microcontroller stops the feeding conveyor after the counter reaches the
preset value and the same process is repeated again.

BLOCK DIAGRAM;

IR SENSOR

Power
supply

KEY PAD

Processor
PIC 16F 870
INTERFACE
CARD
DC MOTOR TO
FEED THE BOX

LCD
DISPLAY

INTERFACE
CARD
DC
MOTOR
TO FEED
THE JOB