Abstract

At the beginning of the path of automation, the first simple machines substituted one form of effort in another form that was operated by humans. Later machines were able to substitute natural forms of renewable energy. The most visible part of today's automation may be industrial robotics. Some advantages are repeatability, tighter quality control, increased efficiency, integration with enterprise systems, increased productivity and labor reduction. By the mid-20th century, automation had existed for many years on a small scale, using simple mechanisms to automate simple manufacturing tasks. However, the concept only became truly practical with the addition (and evolution) of digital computers, whose flexibility made it possible to handle any kind of task. Digital computers with the required combination of speed, computing power, price and size began to appear in the 1960s. Before that time, industrial computers were exclusively analog and hybrid . According to Arbones, an automated system is an assembly that, after receiving instructions from an operator, decides and acts, thus substituting man. Such substitution produces faster execution, better regulation of results and avoids repetitive and tiring tasks for man. The automation proposal for the section of a finished product warehouse for personal hygiene products companies, where the product selection, palletizing and palletizing of the final product is done. It was proposed to automate part of this process by means of retro-reflective photoelectric sensors to have a general count of the entry of boxes and vision sensors for specific channels for the distribution of boxes by products, pistons to perform movement of output change and finally palletizing station that helps to obtain the final product, so that the staff does not have to be doing repetitive and tiring work, so you can take an inventory control automatically.