Machines Made Smarter!
Petri Dish Filling Machine!

Purpose:

Manufacture of an existing machine for the purpose of accurately filling petri dishes to varying levels and then stacking ready to be packaged, while upgrading to an advanced

control system

capable of storing and recalling parameters in a database, providing security features and diagnostics.
automation design and manufacture filling and sealing petri dishes accurately filling special purpose machine programmable
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Technology:

The Petri dish filling and stacking machine incorporated multiple

servo motors

. There are 3

servo controlled

peristaltic

pumps

, 2

servo controlled

conveyor2 and an outfeed sweep arm. The machine was controlled by a

PLC

and interfaced via a WinXP based HMI.