Toothpaste Tube Detector Inside Cardboard Using Proximity Inductive Sensor To Maintain Quantity Of Product

Abstract

To fulfill human needs, in this world there are a lot of factories produce daily goods products or commonly referred to as FMCG (Fast – Moving Consumer Goods). In general, FMCG-based plant machines will work continuously for 24 hours, therefore, errors and mistakes often occur. In the packing line especially toothpaste factory there is a packing machine that serves to insert and pack several boxes of toothpaste products into large cardboard. Due to errors and mistakes, the products inside the cardboard is not filled in full. If those products reached the consumer, it will cause the company to lose consumers' trust, and it definitely can reduce the number of sales. So we made a device that serves to detect whether the product inside the cardboard is full or less. To do so, we are using inductive proximity sensors to detect a tube of toothpaste made from metal. When the cardboard doesn’t contain full products is detected, then the conveyor will stop automatically. And the product will not be processed to the next packing step. This system has an accuracy of 79% of 3 times trial with different conditions and using 10 cardboard for each.