The selfoptimizing injection-moulding machine

Good production knowledge is essential for reaching the optimal production cycle times for the production of rubber moulded parts in the injection moulding process. This knowledge is necessary to reach a stable and economic-production which takes all deviations in the material behaviour, the mould conditions, the machine parameters, and the workers efficiency into account. This paper shows how a new system for self-optimization of the injection moulding process is working, which is able to support directly the technical staff with a much closer co-operation between the control system of the machine and a stand alone optimization than in the past. Target is a production which is independent from deviations in all conditions and at the highest level of quality and economics.