Case Study 2
PRJ21-0122: 5 Lane Transport Conveyor System



What were the project requirements?

JV Controls were approached to provide the software to a 5-lane transport conveyor system within a commercial food processing plant. The intended system would allow operators to call product to their selected lane and goods would then be diverted via a priority system to those selected lanes. Up until the completion of this project, the process was manual and labour intensive.

What software and hardware did we use?

  • GX Works3 on a Mitsubishi Fx5U – Mitsubishi CPU.
  • Easybuilder Pro on a MT8102iP – Weintek 10.1” HMI.
Looking for a cost effective solution, the customer steered us towards a Mitsubishi FX and Weintek HMI.
JV Controls had not used the Weintek platform, despite this fact the customer was confident in our ability to produce a working project quickly and effectively. To this end, our engineer liased with Lamonde, the WeinTek distributor.

He quickly learnt how to utilise the EasyBuilder Pro software to produce the HMI application, and tied this in with the Mitsubishi FX code. Thankfully the Weintek software (EasyBuilder Pro) was the only new bit of software they had to learn, Mitsubishi software is something JV Controls know well.

The LV control panel was supplied and installed by others. All electrical and mechanical commissioning was also carried out by others.

How did it go?

The project was produced and tested over a short period of time and taken to customers factory for testing. Limitations were encountered on the Weintek HMI which meant our engineer found the project took longer than we expected but still completed in time for the testing. Modifications were carried out to suit the customers requirement and ultimately the product was taken to site where it remains.

Which engineers from JV were involved?

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John Jackson


Commissioning Engineer

Which companies / sub-contractors did we work with?