Diseño y puesta en marcha de sistema de automatización para máquina inyectora de plástico en la empresa HIGH WATTS S.A.S

Abstract

This document describes the work carried out with the company High Watts SAS, focused on automating a plastic injection machine of the Semeraro brand. This work was conducted under the supervision of Professor Fernando Martínez Santa, affiliated with the Curriculum Project in Medium and Low Voltage Electricity Technology, Faculty of Technology, Francisco José de Caldas District University. The objective of the internship was to revitalize an underused asset and increase its value through automation.

As part of the academic activities of this internship, various activities were carried out to understand the internal functioning of the machine and its physical components, which would enable the proper design of an implementation for process automation. The practical component of the internship involved replacing the manual operations of the injection machine with other components such as buttons, switches, and contactors, among others, to enable autonomous operation using a programmable logic controller (PLC) as an essential part of the new system.