Design of Automatic Truck Loading System for Cement Plant for Robustness

Abstract

Automation in the last decade has essentially changed the future view of the all the industries. In an industry like cement plant, loading of cement bags is a bottle neck in a whole process line. the plant doesn’t work to its fullest production capacity due to this. A semi-automatic truck loading system can load 1200 bags per hour though the capacity of the plant is 1800 bags per hour. So, to enhance the capacity utilization a low cost automatic truck loading system is required to be designed, fabricated and implemented. Present work is aimed to reduce loading time of an Automatic Truck Loading System (ATLS) at a dispatch unit of a cement plant. Software like ProE and ANSYS have been used to design and analysis of the Automatic Truck Loading System (ATLS).

A conceptual design for proposed automation is carried out. A prototype has been developed and it is found to be faster and consistent in loading of the bags.