A Low Cost Automation for MFI Analyzer by Using Arduino

Abstract

The melt flow index analyzer is a machine used in many plastics, toys making, goods manufacturing, and also in Automobile industries. Because today's 30-40% components of any device are made by plastic, therefore the use of machine is to decide the quality and grading of the plastic which is to be used for different purposes. As in electrical engineering, there is class A, class B, Class F, class Y etc. types of grading of insulators, similarly, plastics have different types of grading. Now suppose we have to make a dashboard of the vehicle and a drinking water bottle by plastic. So the same material cannot be used for making a dashboard and bottle. The material used for making the dashboard should be tough, strong, and should enough robust. But the material used for the bottle should be light in weight, soft, etc. Above mentioned qualities and properties of plastics are decided by the MFI machine. This paper depicts how to decide a grading of plastic using MFI machine with minimum cost. Currently, industrialists want to design goods with optimal properties and minimum costs. One of the requirements for quality control of thermoplastics is the determination of volume and mass flow rates. To ensure in an industry that production is reproducible we must control this index. Knowledge of the quality of the material (injection molding, extrusion) reduces the time and minimizes the cost of production.