Designing a system for moving pallets from palletizers to a cold warehouse

The system should provide automatic movement of pallets with control of movement time from position to position.

Danone daily produces a large number of products that are palletised and transported to a cold storage warehouse. The main tasks in the project were: introduction of an automatic pallet transport system from palletizers to a warehouse providing:

Monitoring travel time;

Emergency alerts when driving time is exceeded;

Control of line occupancy;

Automatic accumulation of pallets.

Automate the process of moving pallets in order to:

• Faultless execution of the technological process;
• Exceptions to the human factor;
• Minimizing the risks of product losses when performing technological operations;
• Ensuring safety at work;
• Reduce the number of personnel (truck drivers) at the factory.

Number of I / O points: 250

Controller: Siemens 1200 – 2pcs

Visualization: WinCC flexible

The company “Danone” introduced an automated system for moving pallet from palletizers to a cold warehouse in the warehouse.

The advantages:

• Reliable and timely response to extraordinary situations (equipment accidents, violation of production technology, etc.);
• Increased safety in the workplace by reducing the human factor;
• Optimized pallet travel routes with full control of each operation;
• High level of performance due to operational efficiency.
• Determination of the optimal route of movement.

1. Preparation of terms of reference for the company;
2. Identification with the customer of the main components of the system;
3. Experts of the company “VEKAS” and representatives of the company “Tekleor” have determined the necessary equipment for installation in the enterprise.
4. Departure of VEKAS specialists to the enterprise and discussion with the customer of the installation details of the system.
5. Production of the system.
6. Delivery of equipment by specialists of the company “VEKAS” to the place of installation to the customer.
7. Installation, testing of the system. Putting the system into operation. The commissioning works on the adjustment of the interaction of electrical equipment systems in various modes are being carried out.

The composition of these works includes:

• maintenance of mutual relations, adjustment and adjustment of characteristics and parameters of separate devices and functional groups of an electrical installation with the purpose of maintenance on it of the set operating modes;
• testing of the electrical installation according to the complete scheme at idle and under load in all operating modes to prepare for a comprehensive testing of process equipment.