Economical Automation: Design and Fabrication of Bottle Filling and Capping Systems Using Arduino

Abstract

Bottle filling and capping is a vital task for many industries. When this process is automated, industries require minimum human effort to complete the job in the least possible times. This paper aims to design a simple and economical system which can fill and cap bottle automatically with readily available apparatus. Accordingly, the system reduces costs and increases productions in small industries. Unlike PLC, used in many industries, Arduino is extensively cheap, and it has the capability of multitasking. With this feature of embedded concurrent execution, this research facilitates the filling of one bottle and the capping of another bottle simultaneously; consequently, the production becomes faster. Therefore, the proposed bottle filling and capping system, accompanying low-cost rapid bottling, could be augmentation in automation to the existing small-scale industries such as juice shops, coffeehouses and other beverage manufacturing.