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Electrical engineering

International Journal of Engineering Applied Sciences and Technology

today, the concept of retrofitting is a common principle in the pursuit of renewing outdated machine tools.The involvement of automation in conventional cutting machine becomes a must.It will improve meantime between failures, mean-time to repair and will save energy as well.The wire cutting and straightening machine is selected to be retrofitted, because the machine is mechanically good. .And the retrofitting is based on a PLC control scheme.The machine used has specified length to suit the required length for the shelves and basket used in air cooler refrigerators plant, so it is a very important machine in the company production line, any failure in any part will cause a considerable delay in the final production line.PLC is a suitable the manufacturing environment [1].This paper an attempt is made to replace the conventional control system with a PLC system in old machine.The result shows a good improvement in down time.There drop in down time percent from 86% and 23% in years 2014 and 2015 respectively to .0.08% in year 2018 after implementation of PLC..

INTELLIGENT PLC SYSTEM TO CONTROL WIRE CUTTING MACHINE