SIMULATION AND VISUALIZATION OF THE BELT CONVEYOR STATE IN THE TIA PORTAL V.15.1 SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT (NOTIFICATION 2)

Abstract

It is well known that transportation of goods over long distances is an important link in most technological processes in industries. Therefore, the use of conveyor transport is quite widespread at the present stage of industrial development, the most common are belt conveyors because of their high efficiency and flexible structure. To improve the efficiency of labor at enterprises the problem of automation of conveyor transport is set, the development of automatic control system with the ability to monitor in real time will allow to implement remote control of the belt conveyor directly from the automated workplace (AWP) of the operator.

This paper presents the results of modeling the belt conveyor made in the software environment TIA PORTAL v.15.1. Considers the introduction of an asynchronous electric motor of a belt conveyor in test mode with the introduction of the necessary technological parameters and checking the occurrence of possible and startup errors.

The used software environment provides the ability to move the axis in manual mode, optimize its settings and test the developed automatic control system, for which the Axis control panel is used, the application of which is described. In addition, the operation of the Tuning dialog box is described - to perform axis movement with a connection via PROFIdrive or via an analog output with real-time control of their position. The Diagnostics function is analyzed, which is used to determine the optimal gain or Kv for the axis control panel. The axis velocity profile is recorded by using the trace function for the duration of the configured positioning motion. The recording can then be evaluated and the gain adapted accordingly.

The paper describes the use of PROFIdrive, a standardized interface used to control Siemens frequency inverters on the PROFIBUS-DP communication bus. When using it, it is possible to control the power parts individually and query their status via parameter services from a higher-level controller. PROFIdrive offers a total of 6 classes of use, of which the 4 most common have been described.