Case Study
Project objective
The project consists of developing a control and supervision system for a bottling plant. The current system controls the palletizing and transport processes of bottles and packs of three production lines.
The processes to be controlled are:
- Palletizers and stretch wrappers process.
- Conveyor line processing.
- Communication processes with other machines: filler, shrink-wrapper, labeling machine...
Technology used
The control system is based on Siemens technology:
- The controllers are S7-300 CPU313C developed by Step7 v5.4 and S7-200 CPU226 developed by MicroWin.
- The operating panels are developed using WinCC Flexible.
- Communications between S7-300 and Panels: they are done through MPI network.
- Communication with variable speed drives: they are made through Profibus network.
- Increased throughput of all production lines due to improved layout after the refurbishment.
- Space for a new production line.
- Easy handling of equipment, process operations and alarm diagnostics.