The present disclosure provides a method for operating a molding system. The molding system includes a molding machine and a mold disposed on the molding machine, wherein the mold has a mold cavity for being filled with a molding material from the molding machine. The method comprises a step of obtaining a predetermined state waveform expressing a predetermined volumetric variation of the molding material. Next, the method further comprises obtaining a measured pressure and a measured temperature of the molding material in the mold cavity while performing a molding process for filling the molding material into the mold cavity. Next, the method includes obtaining a detected volumetric property of the molding material corresponding to the measured pressure and the measured temperature. Subsequently, the method comprises displaying the detected volumetric property of the molding material with the predetermined state waveform.

A method of controlling a manufacturing process having a machine to form a material in to a component. The method comprises the steps of establishing an initial set of operating parameters for the machine, producing an initial component from the machine, inspecting the component to determine its acceptability relative to a desired component, determining a variation in the operating parameters to improve the acceptability of the component, effecting changes in the operating parameters and inspecting subsequent components to determine their acceptability.

The present disclosure provides an Industrial Internet of Things system conducive to system function expansion and system adjustment and control method thereof. The system comprises a user platform, a service platform, a management platform, a sensor network platform, and an object platform. The service platform and the sensor network platform adopt independent layout, and the management platform adopts centralized layout. The management platform is configured to store a control program that drives operation of production line equipment. The management platform is configured to call the control parameters in the database through communicating with the service platform and configure the control parameters in the control program to control the operation of production line equipment; and a data interaction mode between the user platform and the service platform is modifying and deleting the control parameters in the service platform through data transmission between the user platform and the service platform.

A control device of an injection molding machine, the injection molding machine including: a mold clamping device that advances and retracts a movable mold with respect to a fixed mold; and an injection device that injects and fills a molten material into a cavity formed between both the molds, the control device including: a display unit that displays a setting screen for setting molding conditions of the injection molding machine; and a setting unit that sets the molding conditions based on information displayed on the setting screen.

A central management device for managing operation states, including an abnormal state, of injection molding machines, includes a plurality of the injection molding machines respectively connected to shared appliances of the same kind, and includes: an operation state acquisition unit for acquiring data relating to the operation states of the respective injection molding machines; an individual information acquisition unit for acquiring data relating to connection states between the injection molding machines and the shared appliances; and a display control unit that controls a display unit so as to simultaneously display, on the display unit, the operation states between the respective injection molding machines and the shared appliances.

A diagnostic apparatus includes a control unit configured to control a diagnostic operation for driving a belt, a first tension calculation unit configured to perform, based on data obtained from the diagnostic operation, a calculation to estimate a first belt tension value that is a tension value of the belt when the belt is not worn, a second tension calculation unit configured to calculate a second belt tension value in a case where a tension reduction factor of the belt and a wear factor of the belt are included, and a third tension calculation unit configured to calculate the degree of wear of the belt based on the first belt tension value and the second belt tension value. Accordingly, the diagnostic apparatus can support estimation of the degree of wear of a belt or abnormality diagnosis.

Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a method comprising, via computer aided design, designing parts of an object that comprises an outer shell and an inner body, at least one of the outer shell and the inner body defining a specific volume negative space relief. In certain exemplary embodiments, the specific volume negative space relief defines a channel constructed to pass at least one of a fluid and a gas.

An abnormality determination device includes: an oscillating signal sending unit configured to send out an oscillating signal which causes a rotary shaft of a servomotor to rotate and swing in a predetermined pattern, to a motor control unit configured to control the servomotor; a measuring unit configured to measure a physical quantity representing the state of the servomotor when the rotary shaft of the servomotor is swung; a comparing unit configured to compare a measurement signal of the measured physical quantity with a reference signal; and an abnormality determination unit configured to determine occurrence of an abnormality in a drive system which includes the servomotor and the motor control unit and ranges from a driven object to be driven by the servomotor to the motor control unit, based on comparison result from the comparing unit.

An information processing method for detecting conditions of a plurality of manufacturing devices respectively used by a plurality of entities includes acquiring sensor value data obtained by detecting physical quantities related to the manufacturing devices; individually storing collected sensor value data in a plurality of databases; generating by machine learning a plurality of learning models based on the stored sensor value data; and calculating a condition of the manufacturing device of one of the entities by inputting sensor value data acquired from the manufacturing device of the one of the entities to the one or more of the learning models selected by the one of the entities.

A control device for an injection molding machine has a first operation condition setup unit for setting an operation condition for a setting operation, a conversion table for storing in pairs an operation condition for the setting operation and an operation condition for a pull operation, a second operation condition setup unit for setting, by reference to the conversion table, an operation condition for the pull operation in correspondence to the operation condition for the setting operation set by the first operation condition setup unit, and a driving command generation unit for generating driving commands which drive the injection molding machine to perform the setting operation and the pull operation in accordance with the operation conditions set by the first operation condition setup unit and the second operation condition setup unit.