Automated Assembly Line Sorting Using LabVIEW as SCADA

Abstract

With the increasing demand of the products along with competitors in market, there is need of very high rate of production which can only be possible with automation in industries. With the help of automation various problems associated like human error are avoided and there is a tremendous increase in the reliability as well as quality of the final product. This paper focuses on the construction and development of a simple low cost solution to supervise and control automated assembly line sorting for local small scale product industry using LabVIEW software and a microcontroller which replicates the use of SCADA in major process industries. With the help of this project, various parameters like temperature and level are measured on a real time basis. Process control is also made available by varying parameters like motor speed and direction. With the help of LabVIEW software a complete logging of this acquired real time parameters is possible which is then stored in databases like excel sheet where further operations can be carried or can be transferred to other systems. This project is mainly divided into hardware part and software part. Hardware part mainly consists of a microcontroller along with various sensors necessary for detection and parameter sensing and actuators like various motors and their drivers. A dedicated printed circuit board was specially designed for this purpose. On the other hand a VI was created in LabVIEW software through which the logic was implemented.