The Novel Design of Thai Sausage Making Machine

Abstract:

Thai sausage or Isan sausage is a type of north eastern Thai cuisine which is famous for being served as an appitizer. Recently, Thai sausage production depends solely on manual tasks on stuffing and belaying the product, and as a result, it is hardly that the production can be well managed in terms of quantity, quality, and time. In this paper, we propose a novel design of semi-automatic system to improve the traditional Thai sausage production. Particulary, the machine is developed with a set of 24-volt, 36-watt,100-rpm DC motors used in both stuffering and belaying the materials, and it is mainly controlled by a programmable logic controller (PLC). Our design can yeild the product with short size of 4.5 cm and long size of 9 cm in length and both have the same 4 cm in diameter. On average, the output rates for the short-size products and the long-size products are 57 cm per minute and 71 cm per minute, respectively. This machine can improve production time compared to the previous process using manpower which can make short-size sausage and long-size sauge at 40 cm and 60 cm in one minute, respectively.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 848)
• Pages: 15-18
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.848.15
• Online since: July 2016
• Authors: Prasert Wirotcheewan*, Somjai Peanprasit, Piyapan Yingcharoen
• Keywords: Design, Isan Sausage, Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), Thai Sausage

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