UNIVERSITY OF

MAURITIUS
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
MECHANICAL & PRODUCTION DEPT
Programmed: BEng (Hons) Manufacturing Engineering

Module: Manufacturing System Engineering (MECH4002Y)

Name: ID:
Mathieu Souris
Soyjaudah Varma 1140438
Arshad Kaudeer 1210642
Vassisth Dassagne 1111814
Bhavish Audit 1112997

Submitted date: 22nd April 2016

Submitted to: Mr Toolsy

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CONTENTS
1.0 Introduction................................................................................................................................1
2.0 aim..............................................................................................................................................1
3.0 Procedures..................................................................................................................................1
4.0 Scaling.........................................................................................................................................2
5.0 Inputs and Outputs of the System..............................................................................................4
5.1 Input of the System.........................................................................................................4
5.2 Output of the System......................................................................................................4
6.0 Truth Table..................................................................................................................................4
7.0 Ladder Diagram...........................................................................................................................5
8.0 Conclusion...................................................................................................................................5

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1.0 INTRODUCTION
A programmable logic controller (PLC) is a digital computer used for automation of
electromechanical processes, which is a type of computer family and they have commercial and
industrial applications. The development of programmable logic controller (PLC) makes it possible
to do the required changes to the program without changing the electrical circuit connections. In
this practical, a PLC was used to control the speed of a conveyor.

2.0 AIM
To design a speed control mechanism which will control the speed of a conveyor which fluctuate
due to load variations using PLC programming.

3.0 PROCEDURES
1. All inputs and Output of the system were identified as discussed in Section 5
2. The system was scaled according to section 4.
3. Using this scale, an offset was set for the system for more accurate results.
4. Different alarms and instructions were designed in the system for different tolerance
limits which are as follows:
 When the speed is lower than the 2% of the required scale a slow down alarm will be
activated and this will trigger the speed regulator to increase the speed.
 When the speed is exceed the tolerance limit of 2%, an over speeding alarm will be
activated and this will trigger the speed regulator to decrease its speed.
 Furthermore if the speed continues to increase an exceed 5% of the set speed, the
conveyor is turn off.
 Also, when the system speed is less than 10% of the set value, the system will trigger a
conveyor failure alarm.
5. The system by varying the voltage of the system.

4.0 SCALING
Analogue I/O modules normally allow the analogue input or output signal to be linearized to
engineering unites corresponding to the particular application. This process is referred to as signal
scaling.

To scale an analogue signal, we need to specify the lower and upper limits of the input or output
data, which are referred to as the minimum scaling value and the maximum scaling value.

The purpose of scaling is to simplify the interpretation of analogue input/output data by creating
a one-to-one relationship between the units of the measured process variable and the input data
or between the data output and the engineering units of the controlled variable.

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 Measured Process Value Analogue Input Voltage Scaled input

1000 W 10 V 1000

900 W 9V 900

800 W 8V 800

700 W 7V 700

600 W 6V 600

Steps to perform scaling:

 The scaling command is chosen from the RSLOGIX software.

 The input I:04 is chosen from the Input command which is found on the left hand side of
the software.

 Afterwards, the destination Integer N7.0 is also selected in the same way as the input.

 A rate of 333 is used because:

i) 10V/3=3.33

The 10 V is obtained from the DC Power supply. It is divided by 3 to get the value represented by
1 byte.

ii) 3.33 are multiplied by 100 as accuracy is very important in the monitoring of the
speed of the conveyor.

iii) Furthermore an offset value of -27 is selected for the DC Power supply signal to
match with that of the PLC.

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5.0 INPUTS AND OUTPUTS OF THE SYSTEM

5.1 Input of the System

The input of the system is the speed of the conveyor which has to be monitored and thus the
outputs will depend on this parameter.

5.2 Output of the System

The Output of the system were identified as shown in were the respective output addresses for
the PLC program:
Table 1: Output of the System

Output Parameters Output Address

Speed regulator increase the speed 1
Speed regulator decrease the speed 2
Stop Conveyor 3
Conveyor failure alarm 4
Alarm for slow speed 5
Alarm for over speed 6

6.0 TRUTH TABLE

Table 2 shows the Truth Table of the system.
Table 2: Truth Table

INPUT OUTPUT
Speed below Speed below Speed above Speed above
0 1 2 3 4 5
-10% -2% 2% 5%
1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1
0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0

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7.0 LADDER DIAGRAM

8.0 CONCLUSION
In this experiment, a control system for regulating the speed of a conveyor was designed to any
damage to the conveyor of the system. This was achieved by identifying all the inputs and outputs
of the system and by programming a PLC for regulating the speed of the conveyor.