WECON HMI and PLC application in charging machine
1) Intro
Charing machine is the machinery that is used for automatic feeding and evenly loading.as the picture show,it is the charing machine,the bottom right corner part is for the charging process,beside,it is the control box;the upper left corner part is for material pressing and feeding process,.below part is for delivery process.
Charing machine
Below is the close-up view of control box.This machine use WECON 4.3 inch HMI and 20 I/O PLC control.
features of control box
2) Features
1、Charging machine has manual and automatic switching,the user can switch it on its own.
2、HMI offer intuitive touch experience to customers,PLC achieve stable operation.
3、HMI is responsible for the setting of relevant parameters, manual and automatic switching of production line and relevant bottom control.
PLC is for communicating with HMI, external input signal acquisition and frequency converter control, output pressure machine, etc.
3) Component
1、HMI part:The below picture is manual operation interface. While the operation is in the manual, the user can manually select binder, feeding and conveying,simply click again to stop the corresponding button. each screen has an emergency stop icon to indicates the current status in the emergency stop
Manual operation
The below picture is automatic running interface,used to switch the manual and automatic operation.
Automation Screen
The below picture is the parameter setting interface,set the register value of PLC,make the PLC control more accurate.
Parameter setting
2、PLC part:Automatic state, the conveyor belt drive loading cup, electric eye detect signals and stop time delay, and then began to material pressing and feeding, after the delay stop time setted run out,stop pressing material, start deliver,then into the next feeding, automatic operation, the feed automatic, full, stop charging.in automatic mode, manual operation is invalid, interlock that two movement patterns.
The below picture is the signal position anti-shake part in the program,when PLC collect a rising edge of position signal,the electric eye detection delay time start, if collect falling edge of the position signal within fixed time,will determine the position signal is invalid; If time up,but still haven't detect the falling edge, will consider the signal is valid. This program is mainly aimed at filter the invalid position signal,since due to the conveyor belt,the loading cups in the process of transport, electric eye often produce invalid stop signal, need to filter, so it is necessary to add the electric eye detection stabilization function.
electric eye detection
The below picture is the button part.HMI and control box both has a button to control stop or run,one is physical button,the other is software button of HMI, both of them realize switching function and influence each other.Therefore adopt a counter, calculate the times of snapping the button(the times of physical and software button),one time is ON, two times is OFF.
Button part
4) Summary
In the industry,charging machine is widely used and especially fine to powder .It can satisfy the market because of high efficiency and stable.WECON PLC has been on the measured in the charging machine that meet the process requirements and work stably.
WECON PLC and HMI is used together to make the whole control processed more intuitive,convenient and got the customer’s recognition.