Software Design of Automatic Vacuum Forming Machine for a Small Food Industry

This paper explains the design and testing of software for control vacuum forming machine. The design and testing is carried out using LabView software which is intended to test the feasibility of the control system before it is implemented on the actual device or vacuum forming machine. The testing arrangement also used an Arduino controller via serial communication protocol to USB in realtime. Moreover, Labview software is integrated with Arduino is capable of rendering remote automation from experiments and using an easy interface. The objective of this study is to make the automation system of thermal vacuum forming machine for small food industrial applications. Therefore, it is suited with the machine design to provide efficient operation automatically. In testing the control for vacuum forming machine software has been running and integrated with Arduino. The result shows that the temperature control can stabilize the heat after 3 minutes of heating. Meanwhile the software of Human Machine Interface monitors and helps an operator to use the machine easily. After this testing phase will be evaluated and implemented on a real machine.