Programming a stacking & packaging machine and a pick & place robot using omron CJ1M PLC

Abstract

Today, automation became critical in the field of industry. Eliminating the need for human labor is the main objective by making the different devices and machines do their specific operations and tasks without human intervention. In our project entitled “Programming a Stacking & Packaging Machine and a Pick & Place Robot”, we used our background in the industrial automation to automate the process of two machines. Stacking and Packaging machine is a machine that is the ending station of plinth production line, its task is to stack a certain number of plinth pieces and prepare it to be packaged in a box, then, these boxes will be dealt with by a Pick and Place robot that is responsible of placing the boxes on a pallet in a defined order. The two machines are related through a conveyor. Basically, these machines depend on the readings of sensors and buttons, those readings are collected by PLCs that treat this data and then give output signals depending on an already transferred PLC Program. The Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) provide the visualization and control of the process, by displaying the different parameters and variables which will allow the operator to supervise the operations. We created a PLC program and an HMI for both machines ,we only implemented the Stacking and Packaging machine program because the Pick and Place robot is not ready yet.