Design And Fabrication of an Automatic Bottle Filling, Counting and Missing Detection System.

Abstract

The field of automation has a notable impact in a wide range of industries beyond manufacturing. Automation plays an increasingly important role in the world economy. Filling is a task carried out by a machine that packages liquid products such as cold drinks or water. In past, humans were the main method for controlling a system. More recently, electricity has been used for control and electrical control is based on microcontrollers for various purposes like medicines, pharmaceutical plants, chemical plants etc. There microcontrollers control the complete working of the system. It is common to use microcontrollers to make simple logical control decision. The automation in bottle filling industry comes with increased electrical components. Essential requirements of each component in the system is important to be studied in ordered to understand how each part works in coordination with other parts in the system. This study mainly includes design, fabrication and control system for automated bottle filling system. The main part is control system which includes C programming in Arduino microcontroller to control various components in system. A conveyor system with sensors and electromagnetic valve is fabricated for this purpose. The entire sequence of operation is controlled by Arduino microcontroller. In small industries bottle filling operation is done manually. The manual filling process has many shortcomings like spilling of water while filling it in bottle, equal quantity of water may not be filled, delay due to natural activities of human etc. This problem faced by small industries compels to design this system. This proposed system is meant for small industries. It aims to eliminate problem faced by small scale bottle filling system. With this system which operates automatically, every process can be smooth and the process of refilling can reduce worker cost and operation cost.