Automatización de una máquina envasadora de productos pastosos en vasos y tarrinas para la empresa Astimec S.A. en Quito

Abstract

The company Astimec S.A dedicated to the design and construction of machinery for the food industry providing solutions in industrial processes with local manufacturing of high quality. Currently has a semiautomatic machine for the supply and sealing of pasty products, the time of independent way the time of production. The human factor causes that the times of production increase, besides the intervention in the manipulation of the foods, everything what happen, as it can be during the process of product or during the sealing of the container, what can cause the contamination to the product because it is done in the manual way. The main objective of this technical project is to carry out the automation of a packaging machine of pasty products, from the selection and implementation of instrumentation based on food industry standards because you only have the mechanical structure, In addition, an electronic system was designed and implemented for the control and monitoring of the same as that which is responsible for the drive of the engine and all the stations that make up the packaging machine, in addition to the display on the main screen of the number of packages filled, the number of packs per minute being performed, temperature parameters, machine alarms such as low pressure, emergency stop or lack of packaging.