In company Iskraemeco I had started working in year of 2003 as a graduate of faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, in »Electronic Meter« business unit, as a development technologist.
At that time a need appeared for automation of production line for residential single-phase electronic meter ME160, which until then had been produced on manual assembly line.
A need for this automation appeared because of increase of demand for those electronic meters, and the goal has been best price quality ratio. Also quantity of made electronic meters had been considered. The thesis discuses production of applications (software) for calibration of single-phase electronic meter, which is one of the working processes on automatic production line.
The thesis consists of five chapters. The first part of the thesis is meant to show the structure and action of residential single-phase electronic meter ME160, after that a design of automation production line is described, thus all building block in details.
The main part of the thesis is presentation of my work in production of automatic production line thus developing of software for calibration of meter. I have presented the specification, the design document and code implementation in C++ programming language.
At implementation of source code I put most of the attention to architecture of code, and to communication protocol (RS232 mostly), which is needed for communicating with controllers.
In the conclusion chapter I am presenting possible improvements of source code on base of few months of testing on production line, and passed results of the production line.
The appendix holds:
• C++ source code.
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