Design and Construction of Automatic Bottle Filling and Counting and Liquid Tank Level Monitoring

Abstract

The world is increasing moving towards Automation, the process of performing various tasks without or with minimum human intervention. It increases the overall efficiency and output of a process. It involves establishing control loops using microcontrollers like Arduino or PLCs, which control the working of the entire plant. Filling is an operation in which a predetermined amount of liquid needs to be precisely filled in the bottle. It is used by soft drinks industry, packaged water industry and various pharmaceuticals. The operation was earlier carried out by humans and involved placing one bottle at a time on the conveyor belt and filling it. The process then was slow, involved spilling of liquid and unequal quantities of liquid in bottles. The process is now we try to do carried out by PLCs in large manufacturing units now. PLC machines are very expensive. Due to their high costs, filling is still carried out manually in small manufacturing units. This results in shortcomings in the operation and at drives up labor costs. This problem compels us to design a system with reduced costs. This can be achieved by using Arduino as a microcontroller. The proposed project will reduce cost for small scale industries and help them in setting up automated plants. In this project, we aim to study the industrial process as carried out by a microcontroller, then design a bottle filling, counting and liquid tank level monitoring system.