Development of an Automatic Broiler Feeding System using PLC and HMI for Closed House System

Nowadays, the industrial revolution is changing many aspects of life, including how to raise broilers. The development of modern breeding methods for broilers is by using closed house system innovations. This system has several advantages, including temperature and humidity that must be maintained for broilers. In addition, to temperature and humidity, the broiler feeding systems also needs to be controlled because it will improve the quality of broilers. It is caused by the utilization of the majority of conventional feeding systems. Therefore, this research will develop a prototype of an automatic broiler chicken feeding system for the closed house system that is affordable for conventional chicken farmers. The main components used are PLC for system control applications, HMI for visualization display, and 2 proximity sensors as detectors. This automatic feeding system uses two proximity sensors that are controlled by a PLC, and settings using the SIMATIC Manager software. The prototype of the automatic broiler chicken feed system produced is very effective in use