25-10-2014, 03:29 PM
Abstracts: In this era of competition, manufacturing industries are facing many problems like unavailability of labour, waste of material,increase in raw material price etc. Before world war ii there were many food Industries. Poland had unique reputation in the field of food but due to gradual increase in labour cost in European countries, Food Industries in Poland had to face many problems and in 1980-1990 it was almost dead. Today food industries are developed in countries like India, China where labour cost is low as compared to the other developed countries. In future, India may like to face problems of high labour cost. To cope up with this, we have thought about developing automatic sorting based on weight which will be used in food industry and it will eliminate the labour used for checking weight of the cut piece. It is a mechatronic machine which will receive in the form of digital scale. Than the weighing scale will measure the weight of the product and will compare it with our desired range of weight entered. If the weight falls within the range, the table will tilt by use of pneumatic cylinders operated by microcontroller and guide the product on one side. If the weight is above the range, the cylinders will actuate in such a manner that they will tilt the table on other side. And if the weight is below the range, than the table will tilt on other side .The benefit of this system is that it is operated by pneumatic system which requires no maintenance and the labour cost is saved as it is completely automatic. It also gives accurate results.