Susanne Schröder will become editor-in-chief of the magazines Kunststoffe and Kunststoffe international on December 1, 2020. The current editor-in-chief Dr. Karlhorst Klotz will leave the company by mutual agreement.

Susanne Schröder will become editor-in-chief of the magazines Kunststoffe and Kunststoffe international on December 1, 2020. Until now she has been editor-in-chief of the trade journal FORM+Werkzeug

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Werkzeuge für Leichtbauwerkstoffe

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Qualitätssicherung

Change in the Chief Editorial Office of Kunststoffe

A tool logbook on paper is often not to hand just when you need it most. Or it is incomplete, since it is time consuming to keep the information up to date. A cloud-independent, electronic tool log, which is directly integrated into the tool could make all the relevant data available directly.

The installed ImPro module in use on a demonstrator tool under production conditions 

The Electronic Tool Logbook as a Combination of Operating Manual and Check List

Werkzeuginnendrucksensoren

Sensoren / Messwertaufnehmer

Messdatenerfassung und -verarbeitung

Software

Papierlose QM-Dokumentation

Qualitätsmanagement

Dokumentationsmanagement

Werkzeugkonstruktion

Mobile Datenerfassung

Logistik

Lagertechnik

Digitale Transformation

Wirtschaft

Innovationen und neue Technologie

Fernwartung / Ferndiagnose

Instandhaltung

Dokumentenmanagement, CAQ

Data Management at the Tool

To respond to different and rapidly changing market requirements as a medium-sized compounder, all production ranges must be compatible. To achieve this, a complete, globally standardized concept for flexible compounding was developed in partnership with a machinery manufacturer. 

Quality, Efficiency, and Flexibility through Standardized Compounding and Extrusion Technology 

Supply Chain Management

Compound

Extrusion

Compoundieren

Q-Management(system), Strategie

Compoundeure

Standardized Production Concept Guarantees Quality 

Implementation of a factory 4.0 concept in the plastics processing industry requires "scheduling 4.0". Two management experts explain that this term does not just describe a vision but is already a reality at a well-known injection molder of pond accessories. In the best case, the extra revenue from this essential exercise can finance a company’s own 4.0 strategy. 

Scheduling "Crashed" in the Computer by Simulation to Determine Optimized  Parameter Settings 

ERP-Systeme

Prozesssimulation

Auswerte- und Analysesoftware

Industrie 4.0

Scheduling 4.0 for Factory 4.0 

Toolmaking plays an important role as the link between product development and series production. Competition in the sector has been intensifying since toolmaking companies in high-wage countries have faced rivalry from new suppliers from low-wage countries. Since international competitors catch up quickly, differentiation with higher-value technical products will probably not be sufficient in future to ensure a competitive edge. Action is required. 

Operational Excellence: Toolmaking in Transformation 

Sorel Forge Co., St-Joseph-de-Sorel (Quebec) Canada, a company of the Schmolz+Bickenbach Group, Emmenbrücke, Switzerland, presents the new highly polishable pre-hardened steel grades SF-2000 LQ40 and SF-2050. 

High Polishability and Excellent Machinability 

Steel Grades SF-2000 LQ40 and SF-2050 

Competitors from low-wage countries have a growing technological competence and force German tool manufacturers to revise their current range of products and services. To prevail in an international competitive environment, they must develop from pure tool manufacturers into "full service" suppliers and knowledge managers throughout the tool lifecycle. This means tapping the available potential of digitization and employing smart services to generate a difficult-to-imitate benefit for their customers in the plastics processing industry. 

Toolmaking as a Smart Service for the Plastics Processing Industry 

Instandhaltung, Wartung in der spanenden Fertigung

Diagnosesysteme

Customer Benefit that Is Hard to Imitate 

For toolmaker Werkzeugbau Ruhla in Seebach/Thuringia, Germany, precision and reliability have a long tradition. The company, whose roots lie in the watchmaking industry, has been using DLC-coated standardized parts from Hasco since 2012. The coating reduces wear and thereby increases the service life of high-performance molds in particular. Also the associated freedom of lubricants promises competitive advantages. 

Werkzeugbau Ruhla Relies on Standardized DLC-Coated Components 

Normalien und Heißkanaltechnik

Beschichten von Metallen, allgemein

As Precise and Reliable as Clockwork 

"Industry 4.0" is a forward-looking project that seeks to interconnect production machines and associated processes completely, primarily with a view to boosting the efficiency of process optimization, procurement of operating equipment and planning of maintenance intervals and to conserve resources. If this vision is to be realized, new concepts will be needed for injection molding machines and their molds. In practical terms, this means computerizing injection molds along the lines of "Moldmaking 4.0". 

The Use of Embedded Diagnostic Systems in Injection Molds Benefits  Mold-Makers and Users alike 

Spritzgießen

Mehrkomponenten-Spritzgießen

Druck- / Kraftsensoren

Temperatursensoren

Instandhaltungsmanagement (TPM)

DOE-Software

It’s the Inner Values that Count 

Milacron Holdings Corp. announced that its DME product brand, a leader in mold components, molding supplies and industrial supplies, has partnered with Linear AMS (a Moog Company) to offer metal 3D printed Conformal Cooling products to help improve productivity in the molding industry. 

Complete and Isolated Thermal Control  

Conformal Cooling Solution TruCool 

The signs point to growth: more exhibitors, more internationality and (as far as predictable) more visitors – this is only the second edition, but nevertheless, the Moulding Expo trade show is on its way to establish itself as the leading fair of tool, model and mold making in Europe. Booth bookings from the core area of the industry are over average, which is proof of the acceptance of Messe Stuttgart, Germany. 

Moulding Expo Will Take Place at the End of May, with More than 700 Exhibitors 

Verbände, Institutionen, Messen

Messeveranstalter

"We Want to Be more International" 

Right from start, the goal was to create a trade show "by the industry, for the industry." Mission accomplished: about half of the roughly 700 exhibitors at the second Moulding Expo were from the tool, model and mold making industry. Here is a small selection from the range of topics. 

Mold and Tool Makers Now Have a New Home: Moulding Expo 

Oberflächentechnik

Unmissable 

The production of plastic profiles and film is carried out with highly developed dies in which the geometries are coordinated precisely to the flow properties of the plastics. This coordination often requires long iteration loops in simulation and experiment. These loops represent a considerable cost and time factor, and threaten the prospects of manufacturing in high-wage countries.  

Additively manufactured demonstrator die (© IKV/Fröls) 

Excellence Clusters Studies Additively Manufactured Extrusion Dies 

Additive Fertigung

Extrusionswerkzeuge

Technik Trend

kunststoffe-international.com

Fast Product Change in Extrusion  

The core of an underwater pelletizer is the die plate, a perforated plate. It contains numerous holes through which the plastic melt is pushed and cut to the desired length on the blades rotating on the plate. Together with its clients Coperion and Gala Industries, Deutsche Edelstahlwerke (DEW), a member of Schmolz + Bickenbach Group, have developed a material for the die plates that has more than doubled the service life of the systems: the new Nikrodur. 

Material for Die Plates  

Granulieren

Nikrodur 

Some 38 years after it was founded, the tool manufacturer Haidlmair celebrated its first technology open day with an extra special obstacle course. The highlights were the demonstration of a new CNC automation system and an enhancement of an open hot runner nozzle system promising higher productivity chiefly for the production of logistics containers and technical parts. 

Haidlmair Combines the Advantages of Injection Molding and Extrusion in One Tool 

Gate Quality under Control 

By means of the overall Condamos solution from Sauer & Sohn, plastics processors with several manufacturing sites can now keep an eye on the status of their molds, thereby preventing cost-intensive downtimes.

Networked machines and peripheral equipment for series injection molding operations generate data that are usually provided via sensor technology. The drawback hereby is that these data are used exclusively for the own machine. Condamos now makes this collective machine data transparent in a special data format from all processes worldwide. The mold Monitoring-Box Eagle networks the systems integrated in the process, and focuses the process-relevant data in one unit. Hereby, the realtime data from the mold are used to make predictions about malfunctions. With the help of the analysis software Tool Lifecycle Management, the entire history of a mold is displayed. The tool collects, analyzes, and documents data on maintenance, repairs, and many other details. Via a dashboard, the status of every mold can be requested at any time. Also its history can be visualized clearly, and tracked on a dashboard. As soon as the system detects deviations from defined parameters, it warns of possible failures. If deviations in component quality or faults in the process of an injection molding machine at a remote site are detected, the corresponding data is transmitted e.g. to the headquarters in realtime. Simultaneously, the self-learning analysis enables predictive maintenance suggestions to be made. These can also be processed, documented, and updated by the LifeCycle Management module, and be included in the analysis. Also predictions about the remaining time until the next scheduled maintenance support the planning of the plastics processor and the mold maintenance technician before partial or complete production downtimes can occur.

Moreover, Sauer & Sohn offer comprehensive mold support for series manufacturers of thermoplastic and duroplastic injection molded products. The portfolio includes the repair of or modifications to molds in one of the Sauer & Sohn mold support centers, or on the customer‘s site, including transport. Another important activity is the optimization of mold concepts or of existing molds. As the interface between mold maker and Tier 1 and 2 OEM, Sauer & Sohn handles design, layout, and the all-inclusive international management of the respective project.

SAUER & SOHN GmbH & Co. KG CONDAMOS 

https://www.condamos.com

Condamos provides data about malfunctions during the injection molding process – worldwide, and in realtime.

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