Rehabilitación y automatización de un prototipo de lavadora de botellas del laboratorio de Control de Procesos Industriales

Abstract

The present project deals with the rehabilitation and automation of a bottle washer prototype of the Industrial Processes Control Laboratory of the Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the National Polytechnic School; The realization is born of the need to strengthen theoretical and practical learning in students, since the laboratory lacks plants and systems that simulate industrial processes. The development includes the study of industrial processes of washing and drying bottles, evaluation of the operation of the elements of the initial control board and devices installed in the supply modules, followed by the restoration of machinery, sizing of electromechanical and electronic devices which are required in the process for the machinery to come into operation, design of force diagrams, program for the PLC that controls the machine in manual and automatic mode, design and implementation of the new control board, design of the HMI for remote operation of the operation and functional tests that verify the correct functioning of the implemented prototype. The titration work once executed will allow the operator to perform variables monitoring with manual and automatic control, water temperature control, order and time of wash cycles, insertion and extraction of bottles in such a way that the user configures the machine depending on the needs of the process.