Total control over the process, exponential increase in productivity and excellent cost-benefit ratio. These are some of the benefits that manufacturers around the world add to their business when using Nexto Xpress PLCs on your machines. Josmaq, a company specializing in the development of packaging machines and bottling plants, is one of these manufacturers. Located in the city of Muritiba/BA, the company looked in Xpress controllers for the necessary technology to automate its new line of machines for filling yogurt and dairy drinks.
Developed by four hands by the client's engineering team and experts from our OEM team, the architecture applied to the machine has the XP300 controller as the centerpiece of the control system. programmable from the Nexto Xpress family.
PLC Nexto Xpress as a control solution
Compact, with a high-speed processor, various communication interfaces and support for multiple protocols, Altus' most advanced line of programmable controllers has the capacity to meet the most various Industry 4.0 demands and processes.
The XP300, the model chosen for the application, has 16 digital inputs, 16 transistor digital outputs, an Ethernet port, a standard RS-485 Serial channel, a CAN port and a USB interface. Because it has a high density of I/O points, the Xpress was the PLC chosen to interact with the equipment used to control the machine's various processes.
The complete architecture has a 7 touchscreen HMI ” from the P2 family, six Optidrive Series E3 frequency invertersand a sequence of sensorsand solenoid valves. In the developed application, the HMI is used to insert recipes and supervise the application, communicating with the controller through the Modbus TCP protocol.
The inverters are responsible for controlling the bottle transport belt, the table turning mechanism and the four pumps and dosing nozzles that comprise the yogurt filling process. Devices receive commands to operate through a CANopennetwork connected to CAN interface embedded in PLC Xpress.
The solution also has sensors to identify the exact position of the bottles throughout each stage of the filling process and a set of solenoid valves, activated through the quick outputs available on the XP300, used to control the flow of yogurt released to fill each of the jars.
See the machine in full operation in the video below, published on the Josmaq channel:
Expertise and availability: the strengths of our OEM team
Joziel Pereira dos Santos, co-owner of Josmaq, highlights the ease of programming the Nexto Xpress PLCs and the availability of the team of specialists as Altus' differentiators in the execution of this project. For him, the high technology of the products together with the experience of specialists from our OEM team promoted an important improvement in performance in this new line of machines. “I am super satisfied with Altus products” says Joziel, who ends by saying that “the service is 100%”.
Made up of qualified professionals and with extensive market experience, our OEM team has helped manufacturers across the country to enhance the performance of their machines . Present from the beginning to the end of the project, our team is able to identify needs, propose improvements and, in certain cases, even assist in the development of the application.
Just like everything we do here at Altus, this dedication aims to offer a different experience to users of Altus technology so that they can deliver highly efficient solutions that add real value to their customers' businesses.
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