Diseño de un sistema de control automatizado utilizando PLC para el llenado de botellones de agua en una empresa envasadora de la isla Santa Cruz, Galápagos.

Abstract

This curricular integration work focuses on designing and simulating an automated control system using PLC for filling water bottles in a bottling company on Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos. TIA Portal software is used to recreate the simulation in a PLC, where we will take advantage of its main window for programming in Ladder diagram and the image window for the projection of the graphic simulation of the system on the HMI screen, guaranteeing an efficient approach to the control and monitoring of the system. The objective of implementing this system is to improve the efficiency in time and liquid loss in the general production of the filling line. In which bibliographic sources, books and university repositories were investigated and compiled as references to the theoretical bases of electronics, automation and filling of water bottles. This work is presented in two parts: the theoretical framework, which highlights the concepts associated with automated control systems, and the simulation part of the control system of this project, which covers the current state of the bottling company and an explanation of the methodology and description of the simulation of the automated control system for filling water bottles in the software used.