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Electrical Control Panel, Control System Design & Engineering and Machine Controls for for a leak detection system sold as an add-on to blow molding machines.
- Recycled PET (rPET) resin production
- Blow molding
- Food & beverage
- Plastic packaging industry
50 systems/year initially and decreasing after 3 years
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- Find bottles with defects (specifically a hole anywhere other than the top) and blow them off the blow molding line before they're sent to the filling line.
- Utilize the existing ultrasonic sensor's analog output to signal a defective bottle to the PLC.
- Must be able to track individual bottles inside the blow molder at high speed. Typical blow molders produce 12 bottles/second.
- Intuitive user interface for setup. Must be versatile enough to work on a wide variety of blow molders.
- High-speed graphing capabilities on the GUI.
- After detecting a defective bottle, the system must track that bottle until it reaches either a mechanical or pneumatic reject mechanism for removing it from the line.
- System must keep statistics pertaining to defective bottles and log the data to an SD card.
- The electrical control panel must be Ethernet-ready for connection to the LAN.
- The control panel must use disconnect plugs for all external connections to reduce installation time.
- AMPS designed a compact electrical control system with programmable GUI and integrated PLC from Horner APG as the backbone.
- The PLC interfaces with the customer's existing blow molding machine.
- All external machine connections are made through a high-quality, industrial quick-disconnect plug.
- The system is packaged in an industrial enclosure, either polycarbonate or steel.
- AMPS provided PLC/HMI programming for the entire system to include all the features listed above.
- OCS (PLC with integrated color touch-screen) from Horner APG
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