This is a PLC Program for heating and bending glass tubes.
Problem Description
For this process, we will consider two pneumatic rods that force the glass tube through metal support for the bending process.
During this process metal support is continuously heated so that glass does not break while bending.
When the bending process is completed, two cutters are used to cut the bent glass.
Proximity switch detects the length to be cut by the cutter in the cutting process.
Metal supports are mounted close to each other so the bending rod and glass tube can pass through it.
For this application we used S7-300 PLC and TIA portal software for programming.
Master coil will be ON (M0.0) when START PB (I0.0) will be pressed and master coil can be stopped by pressing STOP PB (I0.2).
When glass detector sensor (I0.3) detects the glass, bending process will be ON or bend vale (Q0.0) will be ON.
When glass length sensor is detected (I0.6), relay coil 1(M0.1) will be ON for next command.
If relay coil 1(M0.1) is ON, cutter (Q0.2) will be ON
Timer will start to count time when relay coil 1 (M0.1) is ON after 20sec delay (here we assumed time for cutting) cutter (Q0.2) will turn OFF.
When cutter output is ON (Q0.2) and bend valve (Q0.0) is OFF, return valve (Q0.3) will be ON.
Note :- Above application may be different from actual application. This example is only for explanation purpose only. We can implement this logic in other PLC also. This is the simple concept of heating and bending of glass tube in industry, we can use this concept in other examples also.
All parameters considered in example are for explanation purpose only, parameters may be different in actual applications. Also all interlocks are not considered in the application.
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I/O addressing mismatching as per you description and ladder diagram . Please correct it.