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Discussion of Software Implementation Results_MG14

After practical implementation was stopped, the software side was focused on, PLC programming was done to implement the PLC logic that is needed to make the project work, so it will take inputs and gives certain outputs accordingly. Due to not having access to the PLC, PLC-Sim was used to simulate having a PLC, and inputs/outputs were possible to be tested to verify that the code and logics work as needed. The overall software part of the project was done well however, some timings are not fine-tuned to best efficiency because actual results from practical implementation are needed in order to fine-tune those timings, such as time for bottle to travel from a spot to another on the conveyor belt. Constraints were mostly met as seen in Table 13, such as filling time criteria, bottle size, the budget is given, etc. The remaining constraints were not possible to get them verified/done as no further hardware implementation was possible, this includes the overall total cycle time of the process, the filling cap size, etc., but the design showed that they would be met if it was possible to continue the combined implementation.