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Injection molding set-up.


Together with German software company CAS (Computerunterstutzte Automatisierungs Systeme), this company is said to have developed an injection molding machine Injection molding machine (also known as injection press) - a machine for making plastic parts. Manufacturing products by injection molding process. Consist of two main parts, an injection unit and a clamping unit.  that can set itself up and do a better job than even the best process engineer.

One example is in the manufacture of an ice hockey ice hockey: see hockey, ice.
ice hockey

Game played on an ice rink by two teams of six players on skates. The object is to drive a puck (a small, hard rubber disk) into the opponents' goal with a hockey stick, thus scoring one point.
 puck, a disk of solid SBR SBR - Spectral Band Replication  compound, 25 mm thick and 75 mm in diameter. In a conventional injection molding machine, the cure time is said to typically be five or six minutes. Using the new control system, the cure time falls to 100 seconds or less.

The aim of the system, however, is not cycle time reduction, according to according to
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 the company. It is extreme repeatability of cure condition on de-molding. Constant quality is the main target. The optimization always works with constant quality, to reach the same cure condition, according to the company. The main target is quality, and the next aim is cost, i.e., cycle time.

In operation, the optimization software Free and Open Source software
  • ASCEND — mathematical modelling system
  • OpenOpt (license: BSD) — toolbox with connections to lots of solvers, for Python language programmers
  • COIN-OR SYMPHONY — integer programming, Common Public License
 and the machine control system talk to each other in an iterative process over a series of molding cycles.

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Publication:Rubber World
Date:Dec 22, 2006
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