Automation a tool for the transformation and upgrading of the molding machine industry

Source：Updated：2017-07-27 08:31:57

With the plastic industry production flexibility, product life cycle, complexity of components to ask for more and more high, how in the shortest possible time to complete adjustment to adapt to the demand and changeable plastic manufacturing, has become an important subject of industry transformation and upgrading. In recent years, injection molding manufacturers are accelerating projects seeking higher productivity levels, minimum overall project investment and minimum return on investment. And the automation system that takes the robot as the important carrier is undoubtedly the "magic weapon" in the eyes of injection molding manufacturers. 
 
Over the past decade, automation has developed rapidly worldwide. By applying automation technology, industrial manufacturers have effectively reduced production costs and increased productivity and production flexibility. At the same time, product quality and production safety have been greatly improved. As one of the industries that runs through all the industrial sectors, the application of the plastics manufacturing industry to automation is changing with the increase of production flexibility and the complexity of the process. 
Automation: a tool for the transformation and upgrading of the molding machine industry 
Automation has become an inevitable trend in the development of plastics industry. Therefore, the key to the development of enterprises is to choose the strong robot partners and promote the transformation and upgrading of plastic manufacturing industry. At the 2017 Chinaplas exhibition, kraussmafil automation co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as "kraussmafil"), general manager Thomas. Ma Jiake about their stories, "Klaus murphy has more than 34 years of experience in the field of automation. In 1995, the first time, we in the injection molding machine integrated industrial robot. By 2009, Klaus murphy in injection molding industry automation technology have accumulated very rich experience: it's time to determine our future industrial robot partner. So, Klaus murphy investigated many manufacturers of industrial robots, finally we chose the kuka." 
 
The start of the collaboration is often based on brand awareness and industry reputation, and krausmaffei is no exception. Thomas. Ma Jiake said: "the KUKA has very strong brand advantage. As the same two companies from Germany, we are entering the Chinese market had to know the name of KUKA. Around 2009, KUKA is not the highest sales manufacturers of industrial robots, but they are very good reputation in the plastic industry. We were faced with an important choice, whether to choose what kind of partner to better serve customers. In the end, we selected the KUKA." The successful long-term cooperation proved that both sides had made the right choice at the time. 
 
From Thomas. In magak's account, we learned that 2010 was the beginning of the partnership between krausmaffei and KUKA. Over the next few years, kraussmaffey was on the fast track to launch new solutions. It is worth mentioning that KUKA and KUKA jointly developed the new control unit, MC 6, in 2012. "This is a very unique control unit, and its biggest advantage is the integrated control concept," Thomas said. Ma Jiake then explained, "first of all, the integrated control allow mutual control injection molding machine and manipulator; second, through the MC 6 can be simple and easily switch between robot and injection molding machine, thus saving a lot of time; finally, Klaus murphy package USES the user-friendly programming way, bring more friendly operation interface for users. Based on this, the MC 6 is very suitable for large scale system, the user can through the bus model for efficient data management, and this is the most automation company can't do it." 
 
Krausmaffei and KUKA have extensive global cooperation. Both in Germany and China, both sides have benefited from mutual participation and cooperation. Thomas. Mr Magacek told us that krausmaffei had always insisted on using the same product standard worldwide. "As a group company, China for Klaus murphy is not an independent market. In our hearts, KUKA is our preferred industrial robots partners, and we have to KUKA products into the global procurement system, because KUKA has a high professional and technical personnel, in the face of problems can always put forward efficient and reliable solutions." 
 
It's not just the picking 
 
Shanghai Klaus murphy machinery co., LTD. Plastic injection department China hao singh said in an interview, "the Chinese market is full of opportunities and challenges. In recent years, as China the rapid growth of the injection molding industry automation market, plastic processing industry is eager to meet more complex application automation solution." 
 
In the impression of a lot of people, plastic processing industry automation is often in the injection molding machine peripheral with a linear manipulator or industrial robots, and they are constantly repeating take put a mechanical action... In fact, the plastic processing industry for the use of robots has gone way beyond the category, such as the common used mould labeling, complex embedded application, some more material product assembly, product follow-up clip and flame treatment, etc. These applications can be implemented with appropriate automation solutions. 
 
Kraussmaffei and KUKA have forged an excellent automated solution. Hao singh site cited a case: in a car dashboard production project, rouse, murphy USES a KUKA KR 60 L30 machine, after fulfilling the fetching of molded parts, robot can grabbed the dashboard to continue finish cut gate, flame treatment, labeling and code, finally put the product on the conveyor belt. "This set of movements such as flowing, reveal our leading automation level and KUKA in plastics manufacturing. We chose to KUKA robot, mainly based on three aspects: first, the movements for a robot repeat accuracy requirement is very high, but for KUKA robot function; second, Klaus murphy interface VisuX system can be installed in the KUKA robot, so that we can more easily to check the system data parameters; third, adopting Klaus murphy's helper ProgTechX, KUKA robot commands directly from the command library calls, simplify programming, help customers to reduce the complexity of the programming operation." 
 
The best is the right one 
 
As a basic industry throughout the national economy, the plastic processing industry involves many downstream application industries, such as automobile, packaging, medical, electronic and electrical, construction and other fields. And every downstream industry has a different demand for automation solutions: the automotive industry has the most extensive automation requirements. The packaging industry is looking for a fast automated system with stacking capabilities and pluggable tags. The healthcare industry needs automated solutions for clean rooms... 
 
Through a variety of market demand, we can see a few things in common: all of the manufacturers hope in the process of molding or injection molding after post-processing stage, try to reduce manual labor, by increasing the production repeatability reduce rejection rate, shorten production cycle, and these points can be the most greatly reduce the production cost. 
Automation: a tool for the transformation and upgrading of the molding machine industry 
Klaus marfi is one of the best. Hao singh concluded: "we mainly choose automation solution, according to the project in accordance with the requirements of the customer's automation to determine the type of robot. With the help of a trusted partner, Klaus murphy can provide a wide range of automation solution combination. KUKA very pay attention to the cooperative development and downstream customers, not only for application of different plastic industry to develop advanced technologies, and accumulated a lot of advanced experience of the project. By Klaus murphy and KUKA cooperation, users can more easily grasp the configuration program, this is one of the benefits of such cooperation with KUKA: we can provide customers with the most suitable to the application of robots and automation solutions!"