PHARMACEUTICAL GRANULATOR MACHINE USING ETHERNET MODBUS PROTOCOL AND LAB VIEW

Tandel Mayureshkumar B, Ashish G Patel

Abstract: Industrial Automation have remained area of interest and focus globally since its rapid growth have started signifying its strength for real-life applications and have attracted researchers attention worldwide. Pharmaceutical Granulator Machine incorporates various technologies at different hierarchical levels for automation of Granulating process. This PG Paper puts forth Laboratory Ethernet Modbus Interfacing of mimic with PLC and Lab View HMI and Results of Pharmaceutical Granulator Machine using Ethernet MODBUS Protocol and Lab VIEW in manual mode. The work included detailed design and MODBUS Interfacing of the system for process industries. MODBUS-compliant PLC is wired to RJ 45, which is connected to a PC, based HMI. Thereafter, a simple, but effective model for the proposed system has been prepared for Demonstration purpose. MODBUS is selected because of interoperability, vendor independence and similar other relative advantages have been tested with model for Demonstration purpose which has been one of the major contribution of the work presented in the Dissertation. Various functionalities of the proposed system have been validated in laboratory.

Keywords: Automation, Human–Machine Interface Design, MODBUS, Virtual Instrumentation

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0401025