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Week 7 and 8 (A) - Production Line Control

The document discusses production line control and how robots are used extensively in industry for tasks like filling bottles and applying labels. It provides examples of how robots could be used in a bottling plant, including using sensors to detect bottles and liquid levels and actuators to control filling and conveyor belt movement to automate the continuous production process.

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Week 7 and 8 (A) - Production Line Control

The document discusses production line control and how robots are used extensively in industry for tasks like filling bottles and applying labels. It provides examples of how robots could be used in a bottling plant, including using sensors to detect bottles and liquid levels and actuators to control filling and conveyor belt movement to automate the continuous production process.

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Production line control

This is systematic planning, coordinating, and directing of all manufacturing activities


and influences to ensure having goods made on time, of adequate quality, and at
reasonable cost.

Production line control using robots is used extensively in industry. For example:

 Filling bottles with a liquid, capping the bottle and applying a label
 Define and describe the intended market segments and indicate the number of customers.

The production line will be continuous, with various robots at each station given a specific task. Using
robots in this way leads to:

 Faster operations (the number of cans of baked beans filled is 120 per minute)
 Much greater productivity (the production can run 24 hours a day for every day)
 Greater consistency (every can contains exactly the correct weight of baked beans)
 Built-in quality control (automatic testing for foreign material, such as metal filings, which would
result in automatic rejection from the production line)
 Reduced cost to the consumer (although initial robot arms are expensive, there are far fewer
staff in the factory who would need wages).

How robots could be used in a bottling plant.

 Sensor 1 (a pressure sensor, light sensor or camera) detects the presence of a bottle; this sensor
is constantly sending signals back to the computer.

When the signal from sensor 1 indicates a bottle is present, the computer sends a signal to an
actuator which opens a valve allowing liquid to flow into the bottle.

 Sensor 2 (a level sensor) is used to detect the correct liquid height in the bottle; this sensor
sends continuous signals back to the computer.
 When the signal from sensor 2 indicates the bottle is full, the computer sends a signal to an
actuator to close the valve.
 The computer then sends another signal to a second actuator which operates a motor to move
the conveyer belt to allow the next empty bottle to take its correct position.
 The whole process is continuous until stopped for maintenance, errors occurring or a change in
the process.

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