Kraussmaffei Technologies Gmbh

Krauss-maffei Aktiengesellschaft

Krauss-maffei Kunststofftechnik Gmbh

Grimm, Günther

Günther Grimm

Markus Betsche

Herbert Pickel

Friedrich Staudacher

Arno Wyrwoll

Dietrich Hunold

A device for operating a machine equipped with a handling device, particularly an injection molding machine, includes a first stationary operating device secured to the machine, and a second mobile operating device. The operating devices can be designed to be touch screen. The stationary operating device is designed for operating both the machine and the handling device and the mobile operating device is likewise designed for operating both the handling device and the machine. Each operating device is fully equipped for comprehensive configuration or programming and for operating the machine and the handling device. The screen of the mobile operating device is smaller than the screen of the stationary operating device, and predefinable regions of a screen page of the screen of the stationary operating device can be shown successively on the screen of the mobile operating device.

Device and method for operating a machine equipped with a handling device

An extruder or injection molding machine with user-specifically monitoring and regulating processing of plastic materials includes a material feed, a plasticizer, and a mold. A process input variable, e.g. cost of the apparatus, raw material, power, and processed quantity, can be inputted with an input device and transmitted to a controller. A process monitoring variable, e.g. the duration of a product cycle, product cost, raw material used/power consumed per product cycle, expected purchase price for a given quantity of a product, and number of product cycles until maintenance, can be determined in real time from a process control variable and/or process input variable. A value of a process monitoring variable, such as the actual desired, or mean value, the value integrated since starting, the history or tendency of this value, can be outputted on an output device in form of a characteristic diagram.

Apparatus and method for user-specific monitoring and control of production

A method for providing comprehensive documentation information of complex machines and systems, in particular an injection molding machine is disclosed. Each of the machine components has a storage device that stores information specific for the machine component; in addition, an individual identification is assigned to each of the machine parts. An overall documentation of the machine is generated by combining the component-specific information from a first documentation memory and the part-specific information from a second documentation memory. The overall documentation is displayed on an output device to allow an operator to determine an up-to-date machine configuration and machine state and to intervene in operation and maintenance of the machine.

Method for providing comprehensive documentation information of complex machines and systems, in particular an injection molding machine

In a method for sequentially programming an injection molding cycle of an injection molding machine comprising one or several injection molds, the injection molding cycle is started manually step by step. The parts of the injection molding machine and/or the parts of the injection mold(s) are manually displaced into the positions or states required for the injection molding cycle in the order required for the injection molding cycle. The movement sequence (the actions and the obtained states) of the machine parts and/or the mold parts is stored in a controller.

Method for sequential programming of an injection molding cycle of an injection molding machine

A protective device for an injection unit of an injection molding machine includes a protective plate which is disposed at an outlet port of a channel of an injection nozzle. The protective plate is moveable between a shielding position, in which the outlet port is covered, and an opening position, in which the outlet port is cleared. Moving the protective plate between the shielding and opening positions is a mechanical switching mechanism which is disposed outside the channel and applies an adjusting force which acts between the protective plate and a molding tool, when the injection unit docks on the molding tool.

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Hilgertshausen, Germany

Günther Grimm