Mejora de diseño para horno industrial con control por PLC para secado de motores

Abstract

CONDITION FOR PUBLICATION OF PROJECT. project aims to design and validate, through simulation, an automation system to optimize the operational control of an industrial convection oven used for motor drying at Electro Industrial Micabal S.A. The solution seeks to improve energy efficiency, safety, and remote supervision, integrating sensors, solenoid valves, safety mechanisms, and a Human-Machine Interface (HMI). The architecture was designed in a modular way, ensuring scalability to other ovens in the plant. The implementation was carried out in TIA Portal with a Siemens S7-1200 PLC simulated in PLCSIM, structuring variables through UDTs and data blocks. External communication was enabled via NetToPLCSIM, allowing integration with Node-RED, where flows and dashboards were developed for automatic and manual operation. To ensure secure remote connectivity, Tailscale was used as a private virtual network. Finally, a digital twin in Minecraft was developed using the CC:Tweaked mod and Lua scripts, which handle communication with Node-RED via WebSocket. The results demonstrate improvements in the control of critical parameters, validating hysteresis operation, actuator activation, emergency stop, and fault detection, with potential replicability in similar industrial environments. Keywords: Industrial automation, Simulated PLC, Node-RED, Digital twin, WebSocket