A PLC-Based Control System in Wheelset Disassembly Machine

Author

Jun, Xiao ; Wen, Ma

Author_Institution

Sch. of Mech. & Electron. Eng., Wuhan Univ. of Technol., Wuhan, China

Volume

2

fYear

2010

fDate

5-6 June 2010

Firstpage

99

Lastpage

102

Abstract

A wheelset disassembly machine is newly designed for dismounting wheelsets using a double-side disassembly technology. This NC machine tool integrates such functions as hydraulic controlling, mechanism positioning and process monitoring with a user-friendly Human-machine interface (HMI). A control system using Siemens S7-200 series PLC is introduced to accomplish these functions. After analyzing three main architectures of PLC-based control systems in NC machine tools, this paper presents details of the machine´s control system design and PLC program. Especially, the communication mode and protocol between PLC and master computer is discussed.

Keywords

hydraulic control equipment; machine tools; numerical control; programmable controllers; railway engineering; NC machine tool; PLC based control system; Siemens S7-200 series PLC; double side disassembly technology; hydraulic control; mechanism positioning; process monitoring; user friendly human machine interface; wheelset disassembly machine; Axles; Communication system control; Computer numerical control; Control systems; Displacement control; Engine cylinders; Pins; Programmable control; Valves; Wheels; Communication; Machine tool; PLC; Wheelset;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computing, Control and Industrial Engineering (CCIE), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-4026-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCIE.2010.143

Filename

5491912