Abstract: Germany announced the concept of Industry 4.0, marking the arrival of the era of intelligent economy centered on intelligent manufacturing.
In the era of comprehensive intelligence, what functions and applications should injection molding machines, as part of future intelligent chemical plants, achieve in order to better promote the development of the entire plastic manufacturing industry?
The future intelligent plastic product production factories should be: equipment intelligence, production intelligence, and service intelligence. Equipment intelligence enables production intelligence, production intelligence enables production data, and production data effectively changes service intelligence.
Future plastic product production factories will develop towards three major intelligent directions
First, requirements for injection molding equipment: in the future, intelligent injection molding machines can use the production system to set production requirements, automatically identify and adjust/install the molds that meet the production needs, automatically connect water and gas, automatically connect neutrons, and other production steps through RF information chips and Big data platforms. All kinds of information data are transmitted to the injection molding machine cloud platform through the Internet. The injection molding cloud intelligently selects molds, automatically installs molds Intelligent adjustment of processes, intelligent arrangement of set raw materials to complete personalized and mass production, and collaboration with processing equipment, assembly equipment, packaging equipment, etc. to complete the overall product manufacturing, packaging, warehousing, and transportation.
Secondly, intelligent production: reversing customer needs to determine the production process. In order to achieve personalized production and small batch production, production raw materials and components are used to run first and guide the entire production process. For example, there are 10 batches of production orders, and each batch is customized by customers. First, the customer customization needs are directly input into the identification chip of raw materials and parts. The intelligent mixing system starts to identify the information and transmit the information to the central controller of the injection cloud in advance, by which it can intelligently judge how to mix raw materials, colors, stickers, inserts, select molds to command the Robotic arm and automatic feeding system to complete production Package and transport to a dedicated warehouse for shipment.
Thirdly, intelligent services:
1) Intelligent active service: In the future, the injection molding machines and auxiliary equipment of intelligent factories will receive the status and data of the factory's injection molding machine production through injection molding clouds in various regions. Through data analysis, it is ultimately determined that the machine needs maintenance, repair, and if a component needs to be replaced, parts can be prepared in advance. Transforming passive service into intelligent active service will provide safer and more efficient service to customers;
2) Productivity and production demand docking service: After completing intelligent production, the enterprise will transform into an intelligent factory, and all equipment in the factory will achieve data connectivity. Through the injection molding cloud, factory decision-makers can always know the production status, making it easy to determine the remaining production capacity of the injection molding machine and whether additional production capacity is needed to complete production and manufacturing together. How to utilize excess production capacity to improve efficiency and reduce investment? If a plastic manufacturing enterprise has 100 injection molding machines of different sizes but has surplus production capacity at a certain point in time, they can be sold through the injection molding cloud. These companies with production demand and production capacity can perfectly connect, enabling the production enterprise to effectively reduce costs and increase profits. Individuals or enterprises with production demand but no equipment have such a cheap opportunity. Ultimately, through the injection molding cloud, each injection molding machine is treated as a service provider, bringing greater returns to investors and allowing more entrepreneurs to easily enter the plastic manufacturing industry to realize their dreams.
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