Week 10

 FLOWCHART OF THE PROJECT

Meeting Purpose:         To produce a flowchart for the automatic bottle filling machine
Meeting Date:               7/4/2021 (Wednesday)
Meeting Time:              9 P.M

Meeting Location:        MS Teams Platform

Meeting Facilitator:     Mohamad Saifullah bin Zolkefly

Attendees:                     Muhammad Firdaus bin Khaled, Muhammad Nasir bin Aziz.

Decision Made:

 1. Flowchart:

Figure 1: Project flowchart.

Discussion:

    Figure 1 shows the finalized version of the flowchart used in this project. The flowchart is basically on the running operation for the filling machine. The process begins when the machine is turned on by the users or operator. MCU then starts to execute the machine programs by turn on the DC motor for moving the conveyor. At this stage, operators can start placing the empty bottle or monitoring and fix the position of the bottle nicely before entering the filling section. If the bottle has reached in front of the IR sensor then the sensor going to send the signal to the MCU for turning off the conveyor. The filling process begins when MCU turns on the water pump for 5 seconds and then turns off back. The timers are not a constant parameter for this project since it just an example taken for 500 ml bottles. If there are bigger bottles used, therefore the timers need to adjust a little bit by increasing the filling times. In other words, the timers used in this project are adjustable for the multipurpose filling process. After the filling process is done, MCU going to turn on back the conveyor motor for the next operation. During the movements, if the bottles reached in front of the second IR sensor, then the completed filling process is count. The counting data then being transfer to the Arduino IoT Cloud based which is in the Blynk. The supervisor can monitor the counting yield in the Blynk platform either on the smartphone or the computer.

Conclusion:

In the conclusion, the outcome we get is able to finalize the project flowchart. The flowchart consists of multiple input and output processes for the filling machine operation. 

Updated by: Mohamad Saifullah bin Zolkefly