Modernização de um processo de ensacamento de cimento, através de retrofit

Abstract

This work is the result obtained through the study of a retrofit process, which is the term used when modernization of equipment that is already obsolete, with the purpose of extending the useful life of these machines, which represents a saving of costs for the industry and increased productivity of the outdated machine. It was the empirical object of this study to modernize the programmable logic controller and supervise the three bagging lines of 50 kg cement bags and the silo three extraction process present at the Votorantim Sobral Unit Cement Plant, which have been in operation for more than 15 years, making the retrofit a positive alternative to keep the industrial machines in operation longer than the supplier's established service life, and may even act after the supplier stops manufacturing and technical support of the machines.