Automatic Process With Conveyors

The automation process with conveyor  has
been designed and carried out with industrial criteria and
components, to be a high level equipment in an automation
laboratory for the study of:
• Electropneumatics
• Electronics
• Electrical engineering
• Mechanics
• Automation with PLC
The system  mainly consists of two
independent units with conveyor belt that together can
reproduce a complete machining cycle. The first unit develops
the following functions:
• Taking of the machining pieces from a vertical
magazine
• Detection of the machining pieces
• Pieces conveyance toward the conveyor unit 2, by means
of “Pick and Place” unit provided with suction cup The second conveyor unit carries out:
• Machining pieces detection
• Pieces deposit in final tool magazine
The components present on the system  are:
• Electropneumatic (single- and double-acting cylinders,
solenoid valves, depression unit)
• Electrical (single-phase asynchronous motors, relays)
• Electronic (inductive, capacitive, magnetic sensors)
• Mechanic (motion reducing systems)
Each unit has a control board with front panel reporting the
electrical diagram of the contacts and the actuators. On the
panel, there are connectors for connection to the control
system. In this way, the system  can be
considered an application of the trainers with PLC . The I/O interfacing of the automation process with conveyor  to the trainers is made via accessory connection terminals. The control of the whole system is performed by the user from a pushbutton board connectable to the PLC. This includes the pushbuttons, with signaling lamp for START, STOP, EMERGENCY and others which function can be defined by the application. In this way, it is possible to develop a wide range of programming examples for the machining cycle,
without changing the structure of the system.
The development of the exercises is supported by the
theoretical-experimental handbooks provided with the
automation process with conveyor .
TRAINING PROGRAM
The automation process with conveyor
enables the theoretical analysis and the experiments on the
following main exercises:
• Principles of electropneumatics
• Pressure regulators
• Monostable solenoid valves
• Single-acting cylinders
• Double-acting cylinders
• Manipulation unit with suction cup
• ON/OFF electrical drives of single-phase asynchronous
motors
• Mechanical reducers for the motion
• Capacitive sensors
• Inductive sensors
• Magnetic sensors
Exercises with PLC trainer
• I/O control of a PLC for interfacing to sensors and actuators
• Software writing starting from the basic sequences of the cycle
• State representation of the system
• Manual control of a production cycle
• Semi-automatic control of a production cycle
• Automatic control of a production cycle
• State initialization of the plant
• Technical safety of the plant
• Plant control in case of STOP
• Plant control in case of EMERGENCY
• Production optimization
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
CONVEYOR UNIT No. 1
• Sheet steel structure, chemically treated and painted with
epoxy paint
• Conveyor belt in linenized rubber
• Teflon rolls, complete with iron support pin
• 230-Vac single-phase asynchronous motor with motor
reducer. Rotation speed of about 15 RPM
• Mechanical transmission system for the motion at the output
of the belt conveyor roll reducer
Pieces container
• Transparent Plexiglas tube
• Mechanical support for piece container
• Single-acting cylinders
Pieces detection
• Inductive sensors
• Capacitive sensors
Horizontal motion mechanism
• Rodless cylinder
• Magnetic limit switches for rodless cylinder
• Bidirectional flow regulators
Pieces lifter
• Mechanical support for lifter
• Single-acting cylinders
• “Pick and Place” unit provided with suction cup
Electropneumatic control
• Support for solenoid valves
• Packet with 5 3/2 monostable solenoid valves with 24-Vdc
electrical control
• Bidirectional flow regulators
Electrical control board
• Plastic external structure
• Panel in insulating material with silk screen diagram of the
electrical contacts
• Red and black safety connectors
• Single-phase power supply socket
• Protection fuses
• Cable for networked single-phase power supply
DIMENSIONS: 900x300x400 mm