Proposta de automação do processo de lavagem de bandejas agrícolas

Abstract

Influenced by globalization, today's consumers have become more demanding, new entrepreneurs went into market by increasing competition, and companies were led to invest in quality and technology to increase productivity and achieve their goals. The implementation of automation in production processes is one of the most efficient outputs to achieve this goal. This work is based on a study of automating the process of agricultural washing trays in order to speed washing and improve human working conditions. The proposed system is controlled by the PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) XC100 and supervised by the CoDeSys software. The automation system consists of a pneumatic pops that make the trays unstuck and wash them. The work has proved be feasible, the goals proposed were achieved. Moreover, studies have shown the decrease of energy consumption of the automated process, when compared to the traditional system of washing trays.