Automatic spray system for mixed production

Products are conveyed to the machine on a conveyor belt in mixed-mode operation. There, they are identified by barcode and weighed. The weight (quality characteristic) is written to a database together with the barcode. Based on the barcode, the manufacturing parameters are read from a database and the 8 axes are positioned to achieve an optimal spray pattern.

Workflow:

• Transport and identification of the product (barcode)
• Weighing the product and sending the weight to the QM database
• Reading the manufacturing parameters from the production database
• Positioning the 8 axes according to manufacturing parameters
• Spraying the product

Technical data:

• Controller: Simatic S7-315 PN/DP
• SQL4Connector V2.x
• Connection to 3 databases (ERP production database, recipe database with manufacturing parameters, quality database)
  

Note:

These applications are examples intended to demonstrate the possibilities of a PLC/SQL database connection. Modified solutions are always possible. For data protection reasons, images and process-specific details have been omitted. However, we are happy to answer any questions.