Overview of an application

Let us take the example of a ketchup-filling application. We can use the same visualization as shown previously in Figure 6.4.

Let us look at how such applications are managed. There are several other elements in the machine apart from those shown when a machine builder is building their machine. However, the ones highlighted in Figure 6.4 and Figure 6.5 are some of the essential ones. In order to simplify things, let us consider a machine with a single load cell and a single can that is being filled with edible oil or a lubricant:

Figure 6.5 – A filling application with a single station

Ideally, an edible oil and a lubricant oil would have a similar consistency, thus making it easier to work with in this example. The conveyor is responsible for bringing the cans to the filling station. This conveyor is fitted with a strain gauge load cell. When the conveyor is moving without cans, the load cells will not be sending...