Perancangan Alat Pemantau Produksi dari Mesin Forming di PT. Kepuh Kencana Arum

Abstract

Productivity monitoring is important in a business because the data obtained becomes a reference. Lack of monitoring in production can lead to several losses such as errors in recording by officers or manipulation of data carried out by workers that can harm the company. PT. Kepuh Kencana Arum monitors every process that the forming machine does manually, starting from the opening of the base material (galvalume) to producing a product form (Wave Roof, Hollow). Therefore, the system design is done in this thesis to meet the monitoring needs of PT. Kepuh Kencana Arum to be able to monitor the productivity of each machine in each city in real-time. To fulfill one of the back-end parts in the Telemetry system, the final project was made using Arduino UNO as a microcontroller. Arduino UNO here works as a tool to facilitate monitoring of forming machine performance (yield / number of products) by utilizing readers of sensors that have been installed in the forming machine accurately and precisely. From the results of the tests that have been carried out, the use of Arduino UNO can monitor the performance of the forming machine by reading the rotary encoder, push button, limit switch installed on the forming machine using an optocoupler circuit. By using a rotary encoder optocoupler circuit, push button, the limit switch on Arduino UNO has errata below 2%.