Industrial automation in laser manufacturing

With the rapid development and proliferation of PLCs and other software technologies, manufacturing in industries has changed drastically from manual to automation.The following report shows one such e ort of fully automating a laser-manufacturing machine that assembles and tests the laser diodes at lower costs. This includes development of hardware and software for a laser testing equipment, which completely eliminates the human error and increases the product manufacturing efficiency. In developing such fully automated system a 3-axis Cartesian Robot is used with the help of LabVIEW and some other sensors& actuators. The code written in LabVIEW to control Robot provides solutions to use LabVIEW as main interface for any automation project. The developed algorithms for testing and pick & place provides the project with the needed time and cost effectiveness.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Bharath Kumar Molakala Jayarama Naid