Abstract
Businesses around the world automate their outbound profiling and sortation process for an increased productivity. Sorting plays a key role in any industrial automation, particularly in the field of packaging industries. This paper aims at providing significant low-cost automation in packaging industries that calls for sorting and how the implication of pneumatics can yield a desirable solution. The prototype of the automatic sorting machine allows a systematic sorting of the carton boxes corresponding to their sizes using a pneumatic system, which is achieved by using pneumatic cylinders and direction control valves. The sorted carton boxes are shoved from the main line conveyor to the sub-line conveyor using the pneumatic cylinder, which is then collected and dispatched to the next division for the packaging purposes. Using this approach, the packaging industries can attain the maximum benefits thereby enabling a surge in their production.
Highlights
Over the last two decades, it is clearly evident that automation is being implemented in all the labour-intensive industries
This can be achieved by using the pneumatic system, which saves labour cost and time, thereby increasing the accuracy and overall efficiency leading to increased productivity and profits
WORKING OF THE PROTOTYPE The air compressor that stores the compressed air in it releases the compressed air to the system that is under control through the FRL unit
Summary
Over the last two decades, it is clearly evident that automation is being implemented in all the labour-intensive industries. Recent trends in automation are very well discerned in the packing industries. Packaging industries were born right after the surging need for packaged products to be transported and stored with no damage. As the trends in the packaging industries keep increasing, there is a necessity for the automation of sorting the cartons according to their size. This can be achieved by using the pneumatic system, which saves labour cost and time, thereby increasing the accuracy and overall efficiency leading to increased productivity and profits
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