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Abstract— In today’s world of technology and due to interested in controlling certain time varying, non-linear
speed running industries, the production rate has increased process.
tremendously. Generally, manufacturing industries keep
manufacturing same models with little variation in height, Automation is one of flourishing field in today’s
colour, weight, shape. And here sorting plays an important world and it has become the backbone of control engineering.
role. In such cases industries can’t bare human errors for PLC are the most efficient and widely used tools in industrial
sorting these products. Thus it become necessary to develop automation. With the rapid development in technology, the
Low Cost Automation (LCA) for sorting these products in more focus is on selection of application oriented Controllers
accurate manner. Industrial automation mainly focuses on and tools. For using digital I/O’s it becomes easy and efficient
developing automations having low cost, low maintenance, to use PLC.
long durability and to make systems user friendly as possible.
Finally, here we have developed a LCA system for sorting the Programmable Logic Controller is type of Control
light weight objects on the basis of height variation using DC Logic controller and product Siemens of as well as Siemens
geared motors which is controlled by Programmable Logic software in lab which is used for our project. The Object
Controller (PLC) and the conveyor in the system passes the sorting system uses the PLC Siemens for the purpose of
object in front of sensors and thus sorting logic is decided. Automation. This automation technique is been accomplished
Key Words: Automation, Programmable Logic using an Interfacing Panel which is consisting of relays and
Controller, Low Cost Automation, Manufacturing, Sorting electronic circuits. The automatic sorting system has been
reported to be complex and a global problem. This is because
of the inability of sorting machines to incorporate flexibility
I. INTRODUCTION
in their design concept. at the same time move objects
automatically to the basket as defined by the regulation of the
The primary goal of the control engineering is to distill and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) with a IR sensor to
apply knowledge about how to control process so that detect a value range of objects.
resulting control system will reliably safely achieve high
performance. Over recent years, PLC has emerged as
practical alternative to classical control schemes when one is
II.WORKING PRINCIPLE 6. Pusher
7. Base Board
The control system arrangement of the proposed
8. Switching Mode Power Supply(SMPS)
operation of the belt conveyor system, which makes the
sorting material to appear in series. The conveyor belt receives II. SOFTWARE
the signal from IR proximity sensor in order to actuate and
process the program logic and at the same time to run the
1. Compiler: Keil-uVision3
conveyor to work as intended. The conveyor belt actuates as
soon as an object is placed on it. The object is then transported 2. Programming languages: assembly
III. ADVANTAGES
V. REFERENCES