PETpla.net Insider 10 / 2017

TRADE SHOW PREVIEW PET planet Insider Vol. 18 No. 0/17 www.petpla.net 49 iQ weight control sold more than 1,500 times Smart machine Hall A5 | Booth 5204 Engel Industry 4.0 has arrived in the injection moulding industry. With production cells becoming more and more complex due to increasing process integration and automation, steering and controlling them must become that much more simple and intuitive. This is an important goal in the smart machine area. Self-adapting assistance systems play a decisive role in this. They increase process consistency and quality without requir- ing the machine operator to acquire special expertise. To demonstrate the functional- ity of these solutions, Engel will be producing inject 4.0 logos on an Engel emotion 80 TL injection mould- ing machine at its booth. The CC300 machine control is capable of simulat- ing process fluctuations; the automatic readjustments by the intelligent assis- tance systems can then be tracked on the display of the machine. While iQ weight control maintains consist- ent injected melt volume throughout the entire injection moulding pro- cess, iQ clamp control monitors the mould breathing in order to calculate and automatically adjust the optimal clamping force. iQ weight control was the first of the Engel iQ systems to enter the market five years ago. Initially, the software was only avail- able for injection moulding machines with electric injection units, but now hydraulic machines can also be equipped with iQ weight control. www.engelglobal.com