Investigation Of Mini Food Processing Automation

Gobal, Satya Narayana (2018) Investigation Of Mini Food Processing Automation. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Food manufacturing industry is gaining its important in terms of monitoring quality and quantity mainly. After processing certain types of food they are graded in terms of quality for further processes. As the food processing industry grows it demands more on automation or robotics to ease human effort. In this project it is not only attempt to improve the production of tart shell it also to enhance the image processing technique by detecting color during the baking process through threshold after the conversion of Red, Green and Blue medium to Hue, Saturation, Value medium. The concept of pneumatic press was use to replace human from manually pressing the dough for the tart production analysis. This ensures the consistency of the shape of the tart for the analysis on the upcoming experiment. During the pressing process it requires the conveyor to be stationary with the mold platform so that pressing process can run without any flaws. This is done via placing two ultrasonic sensors to detect the mold platform with appropriate distance in order to stop under the pneumatic cylinder for the pressing process. To run the whole program spontaneously a Raspberry Pi 2 is used to connect all the instruments such as power window motor, pneumatic cylinder and the ultrasonic sensors. Raspberry Pi 2 operates the system when it is programmed with the python programming. Through this it can ease and improve the production of the tart shell instead if using the PLC which can be complicated in terms of connections and understanding. This may also save plenty of time in producing tart shell from human efforts such as the manual pressing of the dough. The perfect shape of a tart is identified by calculating the success rate of a perfect press and imperfect press to determine the number of circle formed in a tart after the pressing process.

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