A new high speed digital motor controller for increasing the packaging speed of a Tiromat machine

Author

Hossain, Akram ; Suyut, Suzali

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. Technol., Purdue Univ. Calumet, Hammond, IN, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1995

fDate

8-12 Oct 1995

Firstpage

1580

Abstract

In the packaging industry the speed of packaging machines is a major factor in determining the quantity of packaged product being produced. For meat and pharmaceutical packaging there are several manufacturers who make packaging machine of various speed. The speed of a standard Tiromat 430 and 560 machine is between 8 to 10 cycle per minute. For product, such as beef jerky and pharmaceutical tablets, operating the packaging machine at higher speed is an advantage because it increases the overall productivity of the machinery. We have designed and fabricated a digital controller system that will increase the speed of the Tiromat machines from 8 to 22 cycles per minute. The performance of the machine has been tested and found to have a significant enhancement in speed compared to a standard Tiromat machine

Keywords

chemical industry; controllers; digital control; food processing industry; induction motors; machine control; packaging; pharmaceutical industry; power engineering computing; production engineering computing; Tiromat machine; beef jerky; high speed digital motor controller; meat packaging; packaging industry; packaging speed increase; pharmaceutical packaging; pharmaceutical tablets; AC motors; Control systems; Digital control; Gears; Indexing; Logic; Packaging machines; Relays; Switches; Wheels;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industry Applications Conference, 1995. Thirtieth IAS Annual Meeting, IAS '95., Conference Record of the 1995 IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

ISSN

0197-2618

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3008-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IAS.1995.530492

Filename

530492