Design and Simulation of an Automatic Filling Line for Different Sizes using Programmable Logic Controllers

Abstract

Filling is a task, which carried out by a machine that packages liquid products such as cold drinks or water. Traditional methods of bottle filling involved placing bottles into a conveyor and filling only one bottle at a time. This method is time consuming and expensive. The present work represents the design procedures and the simulation of an automatic filling line of different bottle sizes by using Programmable Logic Control (PLC). The system works automatically by filling liquid products into the bottles of different heights and is fully controlled by the PLC, which acts as the heart of the system. The system sequence of operation is designed by using ladder diagram technique, and the PLC programming software. The input signal that has been sent from the sensor to the PLC has being made as a reference signal. Farther more this reference signal used to determine the output signal, which is exactly is the same with the PLC programming language signal. The entire system is more flexible and time saving.