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Medical tubing assembly machine
My senior design project was to design and build a machine to automatically assemble some medical tubing
My first foray into industrial automation and controls!
As part of a senior design project, we worked with a local medical device manufacturer to try to automate a tubing assembly process that was at the time entirely manual.
The company loaned us some old equipment including some solenoid valves and an old Omron PLC. We built a system to clamp a piece of tubing and insert two other parts using a certain amount of known pressure. I had to learn ladder logic (man it was weird at first!) and learn how to control a sequential process.
It was an awesome learning experience but I don’t think the company ever ended up doing anything with it.