Development of a Microcontroller Based Tray Dryer Machine

Abstract

To obtain higher quality products, reliable controller is one of the significant requirement. There are several types of controllers which are utilized in industrial automations. The common controllers are Programmable Logic Controller (PLC). The total cost of PLC-based automation is very expensive and does not allow using in small systems. However, Microcontroller is the other processor component which is very low-cost processor. It is being employed in many semi-industrial projects and small factories. Meanwhile in this research, ATMEGA-16L microcontroller that is high performance and low-cost component was used and the systems block diagram is described below (Fig. 1).