SIMULATION AND VISUALIZATION OF THE BELT CONVEYOR STATE IN THE TIA PORTAL V.15.1 SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT (NOTIFICATION 1)

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. Namely, the first stage of creating technological objects used as digital twins to run the induction motor, which is located on the production line. Creation of technological objects will allow to check the correctness of the manipulator in the test mode, to determine and program the necessary speeds and accelerations, places of installation and advanced settings of counters, to track possible errors during the start-up.

Analyzed the necessary process parameters to be set in the digital twin and on the real belt conveyor: setting the main dynamic parameters, setting the self-targeting axis, setting the tolerance time, setting the previous control and amplification of the position controller. Further it will be considered to commission the motor in test mode and develop the necessary program to run the motor in a real technological process, followed by visualization of the technological line.