Diseño y construcción de un sistema contador de envases tetra Pak basado en Arduino.

Abstract

This project aims to demonstrate the process by which the automated counter system of a Tetra Pak packaging coil was built using an Arduino Uno board and an Arduino laser sensor model VL53L0X which obtains the exact measurement of the distance from the sensor to the coil, so that the value of surplus containers can be reflected in the coil by means of an LCD screen. With the aim of automating a system of the company Arca Continental which was still done manually, taking the measurements by the operators with the help of a flexometer and based on an established table they saw the amount of leftover containers that were still in the coil. That is why it has been possible to automate this procedure so that the measurements are taken by means of the laser sensor and according to the coding that is integrated in the Arduino Uno board shows in an exact way the amount of containers that are still to be made in the coil. This will help to lower the rate of waste of the containers, since by measurement factors or by difficulty at the time of empirical measurements these were erroneous and in turn the amount of approximate containers that were left in the coil was also erroneous, which made it generate loss of unnecessary raw material to the company and in turn also a representative economic loss.