Laminate and Wood Bonding and Press Line

This project entailed a full control system upgrade of a wood bonding line, where laminate sheets were adhered and pressed onto pre-cut slabs of pressboard. There were multiple control elements involved: Feed conveyors, de-stacker system, gripper lift, transfer cars, hydraulic lifting tables and hydraulic presses, all controlled via a Siemens S7-1500 PLC architecture and a WinCC Unified HMI. With very little available information and electrical drawings for the original concept, the project had to be reverse engineered from a Siemens S5 PLC, and re-written for an entirely new set of equipment and control philosophy. The project made use of multiple soft-starters, VSD's, instrumentation and IO-Link modules.