The Fakuma exhibit presents the automatic balancing of a four-cavity mould for industrial precision parts with a reliable reproduction of surface details even under challenging filling conditions. This machine with its production efficiency modules was specially designed to accommodate the high precision requirements of manufacturers of industrial parts from the E+E, optics and automotive industry.
In mid-2015, the IntElect all-electric high-precision injection moulding machine from Sumitomo (SHI) Demag was equipped with a range of new standard features, which will be presented at the Fakuma trade show for the first time. As a result, production processes with IntElect machines are now more reliable and repeatable, while the parts are produced with higher precision and higher quality. In addition to this, the new features improve the machine's usability both in operation and during mould changes.
The IntElect's interactive user navigation facilitates and accelerates mould set-up procedures significantly, while a new reference run option for clamping units and other enhanced purging functions make machine operation even easier.
Several injection units for IntElect machines are now available with screws in five instead of three different diameters, which allows more versatility for processors and compliance with required residence times even for variable product ranges.
Sumitomo (SHI) Demag will present the El-Exis SP 200, an exhibit with extremely short cycle times for injection moulding plus automation: the high-speed machine produces four 125 ml polypropylene gourmet containers and also completes their removal by a special handling robot in less than two seconds. Together with its partners Brink B.V., Harskamp/Netherlands, for the automation and the mould, and Borealis, Vienna/Austria, for the polypropylene (PP), the manufacturer of injection moulding machinery again demonstrates its potential as an excellent system partner for producers of plastics packaging products and its expertise in the optimisation of high-speed production lines.
Brink supplied the 4-cavity hot-runner mould as well as the complete automation equipment for fast container removal. Four containers, each with a weight of only 3.4 g , a diameter of 83 mm, a wall-thickness of 0.32 mm and a flow path/wall-thickness ratio of 213 are removed from the side by a robot that moves into the mould parting line. They are placed behind the machine, stacked and conveyed along the machine's lateral axis. The automation plus all required modules are integrated into the compact protective housing with a footprint of no more than one square meter without a conveyor-belt.
Less weight, more functions, attractive appearance – these attributes describe the result of the latest advancement presented by Sumitomo (SHI) Demag and its technology partners at Fakuma 2014, where a production unit will manufacture a lightweight nutcracker, which is then systematically reinforced by UD tapes a complex production method. The finished product with better functionality weighs 35 % less than its predecessor. It demonstrates the integration of lightweight engineering and decoration requirements such as those needed for semi-structural optical parts in automotive applications, and proves Sumitomo (SHI) Demag's expertise as a reliable partner for complex injection moulding system solutions. The partners involved in this brand new development, which was never shown before in this specific combination, were automation specialist M.A.i GmbH & Co. KG of Kronach/Germany, decorative foil specialist Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG of Fürth/Germany and plastics processor HBW-Gubesch GmbH of Emskirchen/Germany.