A special rubber gasket is now available to seal the parting line between head and die. First pilot projects have shown several promising benefits. The technique is suited for pipe extrusion, film blow molding and extrusion blow molding. 

Blasfolienextrusion

Extrusionswerkzeuge

Rohr- und Profilextrusion

Extrusionsblasformen

Ring-shaped Dies: Tilting Technique Improves Centering and Other Features 

With innovations in metrology, processing and automation, the film industry is again pursuing the goal of process optimization and digitalization this year. But efficiency and sustainability are also the focus of the machine manufacturers, who will be serving up pioneering innovations at K 2019.

The Circular Economy – Sustainable yet Efficient?

Flachfolienanlagen

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Maschinen und Komponenten

Extrusionsanlagen

Flachfolien- und Plattenextrusion

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Verfahren

Extrusion

Verpackungstechnik

Logistik

Folienabzug- und -aufwickelmaschinen

Faserverarbeitung

Werkzeuge für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Folien

Halbzeuge und Zwischenprodukte

Kunststoff-Halbzeuge

Folienreckanlagen

Folienblasanlagen

Kreislaufwirtschaft

A Perfect Concept All Round

The multitude of software applications often requires the handling of information in different data formats. It is not uncommon for information to be lost in the process, which is why PIC 4.0 is researching methods for implementing continuous simulation chains.

Stages of an exemplary product development process for a load-balanced saddle equipped with different tapes

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Part 6 of the Series: How a Web-Based Interface Supports Data-Handling

Digitale Transformation

Wirtschaft

Innovationen und neue Technologie

Simulation

Software

Spritzgießsimulation

Industrie 4.0 für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Industrie 4.0

Virtual Reality für die Qualitätssicherung

Industrie 4.0 für die Qualitätssicherung

User-Friendly Data-Exchange in the Digital Engineering

Simulation programs are widely established as aids for designing flow channels. However, the programs lack the option of allowing the flow-channel geometry to improve itself autonomously. This deficit is now to be made good by an automatic optimization tool in the XNS software. 

Die Design: Automatically Optimizing Profile Dies 

New polymer composites for the production of multi-layer small tubes are being developed to give products specific functions. With suitable co-extrusion dies and a thermal barrier option, even complex layer composites with melt temperature differences of more than 50 °C can be processed reliably and in high quality.

CV-T 5-layer co-extrusion die in pilot plant operation: tubes with small cross-sections that fulfill a multitude of demands can be produced by  co-extrusion

Combining Polymers with Very Different Processing Temperatures

Temperiergeräte

Gießanlagen

Temperiertechnik

Baugewerbe (Hoch- und Tiefbau)

Medizintechnik (KU)

Kunststoffverarbeitung

Bautechnik, Sanitär

Extruder-Folgeeinrichtungen

Extrusions-Zubehör

Automotive

Fahrzeugbau

Co-Extrusion with Thermal Control

In the area of pipe and profile extrusion, the focus remains on increasing efficiency. In addition to energy-saving systems, the focus on efficiency increasingly includes flexibilization of plants and processes, as well as reproducibility of quality in production.

Optimization of Components and Expansion of Plant Control Systems Offer Potential  for Improvement

Energieeffizienz

Efficiency Remains the Order of the Day

Combining additive manufacturing with a digital, simulation-based design process makes it possible to develop even highly complex extrusion dies in a time-saving and economical manner. Experts from the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences and ETH Zurich have successfully applied this technique using the example of a novel co-extrusion die.

Field test: for the test, the co-extrusion die is connected to three extruders followed by a calibration unit

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Additive Manufacturing and Simulation-Based Design as a Duo for Extrusion Dies

Additive Fertigung

Rethinking Co-Extrusion

HASCO Hasenclever GmbH + Co KG was founded in 1924 in Lüdenscheid, Germany.

HASCO Hasenclever GmbH + Co KG  

https://www.hasco.com

Angießeinsätze

Spritzgießmaschinen

Antriebselemente

Lineartechnik

Maschinenelemente

Armaturen

Mechanische Konstruktionselemente

Drucklufttechnik

Betriebsausrüstung / Betriebsmittel

Beratung und Consulting

Dienstleistungen

Beschichten (CVD, PVD)

Chemisches Bearbeiten (Auftragen)

Oberflächentechnik

Beschichtungen

CAD Werkzeug-, Formenbau

Dichtungen

Druckluftarmaturen

Druckmessgeräte (Gas, Wasser, Dampf)

Messung von Gasen und Flüssigkeit

Messtechnik

Edelstähle

Stähle

Metall Werkstoffe

Erodiermaschinen

Werkzeugmaschinen für die spanende Fertigung

Filter

Konstruktionselemente-Fluidtechnik

Getriebe

Gießmaschinen / Urformen

Maschinen für die spanlose Fertigung

Gleitlager

Lager

Heizung

Haustechnik

Heißkanaltechnik

Messung von Umgebung (Klima)

Hydraulik-Komponenten

Hydraulikzylinder

Fluidtechnik

Antriebe

Induktive Sensoren

Sensoren / Messwertaufnehmer

Kunststoff Werkstoffe

Kupplungen

Kühlelemente, aktive

Kühlkörper

Elektromechanik

Linearführungen

Markiersysteme

Messzubehör

Mathematik-Software

Medizintechnik

Messdatenerfassung und -verarbeitung

Messgeräte

Messgeräte, sonstige elektrisch

Elektrische / Magnetische Messtechnik

Normalien und Heißkanaltechnik

Komponenten für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Normteile

Normteile / Normalien

Näherungsschalter

Platten

Pneumatik-Komponenten

Reinigung

Schläuche aus Kunststoff

Schmelzefilter

Kunststoff-Aufbereitung

Schrauben

Spanneinrichtungen

Systemperipherie

Montagetechnik

Spritzgieß-Zubehör und Einzelteile

Spritzgießen

Spritzgießwerkzeuge

Steuern, Regeln

Steuerungen (Hardware und Software)

Automatisierungstechnik

Stähle, hochfeste

Temperaturmessgeräte

Tribologie

Umformwerkzeuge

Werkzeuge

Ventile

Verbindungstechnik

Waschen und Entfetten

Werkzeug- und Formenbau

Werkzeug-, Formen- und Modellbau

Werkzeugstähle

Werkzeugwechselsysteme

Werkzeugwechselsysteme, Spritzgieß

Wälzlager

Zahnräder

Zähler

Mechanische Messtechnik

Once again, the K 2019 in Düsseldorf, Germany, lived up to its claim to be the leading trade show for plastics technology. At least in the field of injection molding, there were exciting global innovations to see – if you looked closely.

Injection Molding Trends at K 2019

Schaumspritzgießen

Smart Factory

Mikrospritzgießen

Mehrkomponenten-Spritzgießen

Spritzgießmaschinen, allgemein

Fließpressen

Handling, Handhabungstechnik für die spanende Fertigung

Handling, Handhabungstechnik

Spritzgieß-Sonderverfahren

Elastomer-Spritzgießen

Linearroboter für die Kunststoffverarbeitung

Industrieroboter

Montage-Spritzgießen

Knickarmroboter

Co-Injektion (Barriere-/Sandwich-Spritzgießen)

Hybrid-Spritzgießen (Metall / Kunststoff)

Ressourcenmanagement

Produktion

Technical Excellence thanks  to Digital Assistance

The resource-economical determination of an optimized operating point in injection molding is still a challenge. Machine learning offers great potential for re-using knowledge from a flow simulation that has already been generated.

Significant reduction of the effort for determining the optimum operating point by machine learning

Machine Learning: Combining Simulation and Experimental Test Data

DOE-Software

Qualitätsmethoden

Digitaler Zwilling

Quicker Evaluation of the Optimum Operating Point

Foam injection molding is a processing technology to produce foamed plastic parts in serials production, attaining an increasing interest and use in industry. However, the applications are limited due to insufficient knowledge of processing and mechanical properties, limited use of light-weight potential as well restricted surface qualities. All these drawbacks are associated with the cellular structure. The structure characteristics like skin layer thickness, cell size, density and uniformity are developed during procedure. Thus, controlling the cell formation process is the key to work against the restrictions and optimize mechanical properties.

Schaumstoffe

Schaumstoffe und Vorprodukte

Schäumen / Reaktive Verarbeitung

Controlling cellular structure in thermoplastic foam injection molding – influence of processing and mold technologies

iQ process observer, the new process monitoring platform from Engel monitors hundreds of parameters from the injection molding cell in the background.

A Process Monitoring Platform Monitors Several Hundred Parameters Simultaneously

An Eye on the Process –  a Handle on Quality

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