Mechatronics for Optimal Industrial Plant Operations towards Sustainable Power Infrastructure

Abstract

The demand of electrical power by industries in Nigeria far out rips the
supply. This calls for optimal use of electrical energy in the industries.
Innovations in today’s industrial control system (ICS) are often possible due
to embedded electronic systems. Technologies and developed products
incorporate electronics more and more into mechanisms, intimately and
organically, making it impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins;
a concept referred to as Mechatronics. This study presents Mechatronics in
the optimal operations of a bottling industry, targeting towards optimal use
of power resulting into a sustainable power infrastructural utilization. The
approach uses light dependent resistor (LDR) as a sensing device, an up
counter as a counter, a 4bit magnitude comparator is used to compare set
number (count) on a thumbwheel and the number of crakes on the process
line. Embedded in the control system is a delay and alarm system for optimal
run of the production line, resulting into optimal use of power.