Monitoring and Controlling of Material Handling Equipment

To understand the process and working of different kinds of material handling equipment in real- time from the industry. To monitor and control the working of material handling equipment. And to design material handling equipment whose overall operating efficiency of a facility. Simulate the working of the Tower crane which consists of a trolley, hoist, and a jib. Also, coordinate all the parts of the tower crane for safe and efficient material handling. In doing so, we can plot the operating torques of the trolley, hoist, and jib for a time along with the load applied on each of them while moving the container. The hoist can raise and lower a load, and therefore the trolley moves the load towards and far from the tower. Blocks from the belts and cables library are accustomed to model the pulleys that control lifting the load and moving the trolley. A plot of load vs time and torque vs time is obtained for the tower crane. The working animation is also obtained from the simulation using simscape tools. The model uses a signal builder to coordinate the commands for the jib, trolley, and hoist which acts as input to the tower crane. For the future expansion of the project, it is recommended to implement a variable voltage variable frequency drive in place of the signal builder.