Automatización de máquina de apilamiento inferior de láminas de cartón para la empresa Cartorama C. A.

Abstract

The company Cartorama C.A. has a corrugating line with a capacity of 2500 tons of corrugated cardboard per month, in said facility operates a manual stacking system for cardboard sheets called stacker, which was equipped with obsolete control devices, no longer available in the Ecuadorian market, control devices such as pneumatic timers, 24 VAC voltage sources, contactors not in accordance with the IEEE electrical standard, among others. The purpose of this project is to fully implement the automation of the stacking system in order to reduce unscheduled downtime caused by failures due to missing and out-of-date devices in the Ecuadorian market. The approach adopted is based on a quantitative, qualitative and experimental methodology, for which a cost/benefit evaluation was performed to justify the investment by maintaining the performance indicators below the monthly limits, in accordance with the established goals.