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Title: Development of a Product Pipeline System to Teach Industrial Manufacturing Automation
Our modern age is being forged by industrialization and automation. Processes that once required tedious handwork can now be completed with higher efficiency and consistent quality by machines and facilities that perform their operations automatically. Examples of automation technology in our daily lives are found in households where washing machines are used, on the streets where traffic lights regulate traffic, or even in buildings that use air-conditioning units and automatic lighting systems. Open-loop control systems or closed-loop control systems are used in all these systems to determine a predefined sequence of processing steps. The Industrial Manufacturing System (IMS) developed at the college intends to address the need for education. This project introduces how the production assembly line develops. The system consists of Sorting, Assembly, Processing, Testing, Storage, and Buffering operations. The Siemens Simatic PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) S7-300 is used in the manufacturing system and TIA (Total Integrated Automation) Portal is used as the programming environment. This project focuses on the automation of an industrial manufacturing system through several tools such as PLC, TIA PORTAL (V16), and PROFIBUS. The control of the whole system is implemented by using Siemens Sematic PLC. The main objective of this project is to create a fully automated production line for college education. The system consists of Buffering, Sorting, Assembly, Processing, Testing, Handling, and Storage to minimize the risk to workers’ health [1] and the occurrence of accidents and increase production efficiency.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2202107
NSF-PAR ID:
10415325
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
The 130th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 25-28, 2023, Baltimore, MD
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Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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