Automation project

Programming a Pick&Place robot with a Siemens PLC

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Aside from vocational school, inter-company professional training at Swissmechanic and practical work on aerosol machines for customers around the world, automation engineer apprentices at Pamasol also work on projects which focus on specific parts of the education.

The Pick&Place robot represents the PLC automation project of the education. It consists of a pneumatic claw from Festo Didactic.

The robot is controlled by a Siemens ET200SP PLC (programmable logic controller). The PLC is programmed with the Siemens TIA Portal, where you can choose between the following coding languages:

  • Instruction list IL
  • Ladder logic
  • Function block diagram FBD
  • Structured Control Language SCL
  • S7 graph AS

The apprentices create with the help of YoutTube Videos a PLC program including the visualization of a touch panel. The program places lids on containers, similarly like the aerosol machines at Pamasol. Here spray cans get assembled with a valve, spray button or a cap.