Moldmakers and manufacturers of injection molding machines or peripheral equipment will present some of their collaborations.

Spritzgießen

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Verfahren

Werkzeug- und Formenbau

Dienstleistungen

Werkzeug-, Formen- und Modellbau

Messe Moulding Expo

form-werkzeug.de

Spritzgießmaschinen

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Maschinen und Komponenten

Betriebstechnik für Kunststoffverarbeitung (Peripherie)

Production Concepts for Moldmaking

At Fakuma 2021, Engel is expanding its product range of intelligent assistance systems. The new iQ motion control allows Engel viper series linear robots a reliable early start combined with fully automatically optimized motion planning. Users benefit twofold: from a time-saving in teach-in and shorter production cycles.

iQ motion control operates with automatically optimized motion planning

Folientechnik (IMD, IML, FIM, u.a.)

Messe Fakuma

kunststoffe-international.com

Handling, Handhabungstechnik

Automatisierungstechnik

Linearroboter für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Medizintechnik

Kreislaufwirtschaft

Optimized Motion Planning for Shorter Cycle Times

With Moldex3D 2021, the supplier of software in German-speaking countries SimpaTec, by its own account, succeeded in improving both prediction accuracy and tailored solutions. Thus, for shrinkage and warpage predictions, which are frequently required in injection molding, the new version now combines the material and stress properties of the plastic at the phase-switchover to the holding pressure phase.

Moldex3D 2021 offers users improvements that make routine workflows easier

Spritzgießsimulation

Software

Simulation

Virtual Product Development – Precise and Tailor-Made

“At our trade show presentation this year, we are concentrating on the automation and digitalization of our injection-molding machines,” says Alfred Schiffer, marketing partner at Dr. Boy GmbH & Co. KG, explaining the activities planned for Fakuma. Three of the four applications at its own tradeshow booth – four more can be seen at its partners – are equipped with Dr. Boy’s own LR 5 linear handling unit.

On the Boy 35 E, the LR 5 compact telescopic handling system is use for a medical LSR application

Mehrkomponenten-Spritzgießen

kunststoffe.de

Elastomer-Spritzgießen

Individual Automation and Digitalization

After a year’s forced break of Fakuma, Wittmann Battenfeld is announcing the new servohydraulic SmartPlus machine as the highlight of this year’s trade show. It is claimed to be characterized by high economic and energy efficiency and repeat accuracy.

The new SmartPlus machine is equipped with the HiQ Flow software and the CMS Light condition monitoring system

Schaumspritzgießen

Mikrospritzgießen

Spritzgießmaschinen, allgemein

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Industrie 4.0 für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Industrie 4.0

Injection Molding Innovations In-House, Live and in Color

Apart from injection molding and in-mold labeling (IML) additional automation steps are necessary to make the entire process for producing container packaging as efficient as possible. For this purpose, Beck Automation offers customer-specific solutions for the downstream handling of such packaging.

Downstream automation, like the packaging of drinking cups in cartons, increases efficiency and reduces the risk of contamination by persons

Automatisierungszellen

Verpackungstechnik

Logistik

Verpackungsmaschinen

IML Processes Rounded off by Efficient Packaging Automation

As an all-inclusive injection molding supplier, the Wittmann Group will also use the Fakuma to showcase its latest innovations in automation and peripherals. In 2019, the Sonic range of robots replaced the high-speed UHS series robots. Sonic robots now come with a new design and are fitted with the latest R9 robot control system.

The Sonic 108 is optimized for fast parts removal in packaging and “pick & place” applications

Extensions to Several Robot Series

Since many years, the South German plastics processor/finisher Varioplast Konrad Däbritz GmbH has focused on the subject of resource conservation. At the Fakuma, Varioplast will present its latest inline production options.

Networked processes reduce the number of rejects, cut energy demand, and shorten transport routes, thereby contributing towards resource conservation

Beschichten (CVD, PVD)

Oberflächentechnik

Chemisches Bearbeiten (Auftragen)

Lackierroboter

Montagetechnik

Industrieroboter

Lackieren

Inline- / Online-Messsysteme

Qualitätssicherung

Qualitätssicherung Kunststoff

Resource Conservation with Networked Process

Before Covid 19, some 65 % of pipette tips were used without filter, but meanwhile, a majority of pipette tips now has filters. What does this mean for manufacturers?

Filters on the pipette tips protect the pipettes and samples from unintentional and unnoticed contamination – especially with automated laboratory tests

Montageeinrichtungen

Medizinprodukte

Filtergewebe

Halbzeuge und Zwischenprodukte

Kunststoff-Halbzeuge

Filter Assembly System for Pipette Tips

Kebo has developed a new needle valve system called MultiValve to specifically address the needs of medical customers.

Kebo will be showing its MultiValve valve gate system in its maximum configuration of eight cavities in Friedrichshafen

Heißkanalsysteme

Komponenten für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Reinraumsysteme / -technik

Miniaturization is a Megatrend

Emilio López has been appointed as the new managing director of Engel de Mexico SA de CV. He succeeds Peter Auinger, who retired on 1st September 2021.

Emilio López is the new managing director of Engel de Mexico SA de CV

New Managing Director in Mexico

iQ motion control from Engel now allows reliable early start combined with fully automatically optimized motion planning. The assistance system has been part of the standard kit of all new Engel viper-type linear robots since October 2021.

If the robot travels into the mold area already during the mold opening movement, this can shorten the cycle time. The effect is particularly large in the case of parts with long cores, such as boxes

16:9

iQ Motion Control Brings the Injection-Molding Machine and Robot Closer together

Steuerungen (Hardware und Software)

A Production Cell with Fluid Movements

NP Germany’s turnkey system around a vertical Arburg injection molding machine takes up a quarter of the production hall.

Benedikt Niglis, head of project (left), and Plant Manager Mario von der Heyde are more than proud of their complex turnkey system

NP Germany: Extraordinary Turnkey System for Automotive Products

Inspektionssysteme

Fertigungsautomation

Bildverarbeitung

Knickarmroboter

Hybrid-Spritzgießen (Metall / Kunststoff)

Dance of the Robots

Based on interviews in industry, this article describes a common understanding of the most important use cases. The results capture the current direction in the plastics industry.

Part 1 of the Series: Use Cases Based on Strategic Priorities in Plastics Processing

Strategie und Organisation

Wirtschaft

Compoundieren

Kunststoff-Aufbereitung

Implementation of Industry 4.0 in Injection Molding and Compounding

For a cutlery series made of a new biopolymer, three full hot runner molds with digital process monitoring were developed in close cooperation with mold maker Uniform and hot runner specialist Ewikon.

The 16-drop family mold on the machine. The removal and packaging of the parts are fully automated

Complete Digital Hot Runner Solution for Automated Biopolymer Processing

Condition Monitoring / Prozessüberwachung

Instandhaltung

Spritzgießwerkzeuge

Werkzeuge für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Biokunststoffe

Kunststoff Werkstoffe

Virtual Reality für die Qualitätssicherung

Industrie 4.0 für die Qualitätssicherung

Process Reliability Is Crucial

Over the last few months Wittmann Battenfeld has succeeded in winning new customers in many markets with its SmartPower injection molding machines.

Over the last few months Wittmann Battenfeld has succeeded in winning new customers in many markets with its SmartPower injection molding machines. The appealing design of the SmartPower, its near-silent operation, the highly repeatable process capabilities, wide platens and class-leading compactness are perhaps some of the main factors influencing a purchase. However, once in operation, the bonus of the SmartPower’s extreme energy efficiency performance also becomes an inescapable fact, says the company.

In numerous meetings with customers held by Dan Williams, Managing Director of Wittmann Battenfeld UK following the installation of SmartPower machines, energy efficiency has come up as a topic of particular significance. According to the company, the magnitude of actual savings realized on the production floor by comparison to similar machine models has exceeded expectations and surprised many users.

A typical example is White Horse Plastics (WHP) based in Oxfordshire, which recently ordered a SmartPower 60. WHP Managing Director Paul Bobby says that “after labor and raw material costs, energy and utilities present us with the next most significant overhead. I always expect to see some significant improvement when comparing old to new, but these outcomes were far more impressive than could ever have been hoped for. In fact, the greatly reduced running costs from the SmartPower machine were so incredible that it led to us repeating the exercise in order to check our methodology. But when repeated these results were exactly the same. These machines are called SmartPower for a very good reason” says Bobby “and the energy savings achieved are truly world class.”

At Thomas Dudley-owned Rugby Plastics similar experiences have emerged: Dr Steven Pepper has been leading the company drive towards factory efficiencies. In this case a SmartPower 50 injection molding machine was the basis for the energy measurement work. The machine was supplied with servo power and a HiQ quality control package and it also deployed the regenerative KERS braking system so effectively used by the Wittmann Group.

The SmartPower was compared to a machine that had been supplied in the early 1990’s. Unsurprisingly perhaps the test results were astounding, revealing that the SmartPower injection molding machine was six times more energy efficient and six times less costly to run than the older machine.

Joint Wittmann Battenfeld UK Managing Director Tracy Cadman says that “my accounting background and expertise tells me that the low running costs of Wittmann Battenfeld designed equipment has to be a primary consideration for our customers in any purchasing decision. Customers are increasingly factoring these numbers into a lifetime of machinery performance – over ten, fifteen, twenty years.”

Tracy also notes that the company is able to confidently model and forecast the reduced energy cost they will save prospective customers with SmartPower based technology. “Our leading customers in the UK and Ireland are increasingly realizing that low energy production is helping to future proof businesses, not only for cost but also in terms of transparent Industry 4.0 production and securing a low environmental footprint.”

Wittmann Battenfeld GmbH  

https://www.wittmann-group.com

Tracy Cadman and Dan Williams in front of a SmartPower 90 (f. l.)

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