Pneumatic Control System of Automatic Production Line Using Two Method of SCADA/HMI Implement PLC

Abstract

This study focuses on the implementation of interfaces for human machine interaction (HMI) control and monitor automatic production line. The automatic production line can performance feeding, transportation, sorting functions. The objectives of this study are implemented two SCADA/HMI system using two different software. TIA portal software is used to build HMI, alarm, and trends in touch panel which is helped an operator to control and monitor the production line. LabVIEW software is used to build HMI and trends in the computer screen and is linked with Microsoft Excel (ME) to generate information table helped to monitor the performance of the pneumatic equipment. The production line can do performance feeding, transportation, sorting functions, is designed and simulated in FACTORY IO software and implemented. S7-1200 PLC employed to control the automatic production line using ladder logic diagram on TIA PORTAL V13 software. Two methods are adopted to create Human Machine Interface (HMI) for monitoring the status of the system (touch panel interface and LabVIEW interface). The communication between master program TIA PORTAL V15 software and slave program LABVIEW is through OLE Process Control (OPC) service. OPC offers greater flexibility and lower costs of development, integration, and assembly for controlling and monitoring the industrial process, as well as OPC involves a wide variety of data resource. As a result, the realized system enables two human interfaces for controlling and monitoring the physical values of the pneumatic system processes and parameters. In addition, it provides a way for different software packages to access values from control device (PLC) assisting to monitor the performance of the pneumatic equipment. The implemented system can be applied the laboratory for reducing the distance between theoretical knowledge and practical applications for engineering students. It plays a significant role in developing the ability of innovation and practical application. furthermore, the implemented system of the production line is a prototype with an actual production situation which is very close to the actual environment control process in the factory.