A molding machine is provided with a basic information setting function unit for setting basic information including resin data relating to pellet material, screw data relating to screw, and molding condition data relating to molding conditions, computation processing function unit comprising a provisional plastication time computation processing unit for calculating a provisional plastication time from the basic information, a melt film heating amount computation processing unit for calculating a heating amount of a melt film from the provisional plastication time obtained from the provisional plastication time computation processing unit, and a plastication delay time conversion processing unit for converting the heating amount of the melt film obtained from the melt film heating amount computation processing unit into a plastication delay time, and an output function unit for outputting plastication delay time or plastication information obtained based on the plastication delay time.

A molding assistance device includes: a resin item selection section 6 for selecting an item Drc relating to a type of resin and an item Drm relating to a predetermined physical property of the resin from resin data Dr set in a resin data setting section Fmr, a physical property value input section 7 for inputting a plurality of different resin temperatures Et relating to the selected resin and physical property values Em corresponding to the respective resin temperatures Et; a physical property value conversion section 8 for obtaining a physical property value Em corresponding to any resin temperature Et; and a data conversion processing functional section Fe which operates, when a molten state is estimated, so as to provide to a calculation processing functional section Fe a resin temperature Et at the time of the estimation and a physical property value Em corresponding to the resin temperature Et and obtained by the physical property value conversion section 8.

An injection molding machine pass/fail determination system includes: a monitoring data extraction module that extracts non-defective article monitoring data and defective article monitoring data from basic data in which a pass/fail determination result on a molded article formed by an injection molding machine is associated with monitoring data; a high-influence monitoring data extraction module that extracts high-influence monitoring data having a high influence on a defect type from among the extracted monitoring data; a molding parameter calculation module that calculates a molding parameter being a parameter to be used when pass/fail determination of the molded article during molding performed by the injection molding machine is performed based on the monitoring data of the same type as the high-influence monitoring data; and a pass/fail determination module that compares the molding parameter with a determination threshold being a threshold for the molding parameter and determines whether a defective article has occurred.

An industrial machine management apparatus for managing multiple injection molding machines includes a management information calculating unit configured to calculate, based on information concerning production by each individual machine of the multiple injection molding machines which are classified into at least one group according to predetermined criteria, a statistic of information concerning the overall production by the injection molding machine that belong to the group, as management information, and a display unit configured to display the management information of the group.

A molding assistance device includes: a data input section for inputting resin related data including reinforcing fiber data, and molding machine related data including at least screw data; a calculation expression data setting section in which solid phase rate calculation expression data are set, the solid phase rate calculation expression data being used for calculation of a solid phase rate of molten resin containing reinforcing fibers in a heating cylinder on the basis of input data inputted from the data input section and molding condition data set by a molding condition setting section; and a calculation processing functional section which includes at least a solid phase rate calculation processing section and a fiber state calculation processing section. The solid phase rate calculation processing section obtains an estimated solid phase rate of the reinforcing fiber-containing molten resin at the time of completion of metering by calculation processing based on the solid phase rate calculation expression data. The fiber state calculation processing section obtains an estimated breakage rate of the reinforcing fibers at the time of completion of metering.

A die casting machine includes a plurality of ejector pins capable of advancing and retracting together with respect to the internal portion of a die; an electric motor capable of driving the plurality of ejector pins; a position sensor capable of detecting the positions of the plurality of ejector pins; a force sensor capable of detecting the pressure which is given to the molding material inside the die by the plurality of ejector pins; a display device capable of displaying images, and a control device controlling the electric motor and display device. The control device includes a drive control part which controls the electric motor so as to generate a driving force making the plurality of ejector pins advance to the inside of the die after the start of injection and before die opening, and a display control part which controls the display device so as to display the position detected by a position sensor and the pressure detected by a force sensor along a common time axis.

The invention describes a method of determining a number of process parameter values within an injection mould (1F) during an injection moulding process, which method comprises the steps of determining geometric data of the injection mould (1F) and/or of a form part (1, 1, 1) to be manufactured, determining a virtual part-specific pressure curve (p.sub.S) of an injection moulding process, determining a part-specific event pattern (M.sub.S) on the basis of the virtual part-specific pressure curve (p.sub.S), carrying out an injection moulding process using the injection mould (1F) and determining a measured pressure curve (p.sub.m) during the injection moulding process and determining a measurement event pattern (M.sub.m) on the basis of the measured pressure curve (p.sub.m). Process parameter values are derived on the basis of the virtual event pattern and the measurement event pattern. The invention further describes a corresponding process parameter value determining apparatus and an injection mould arrangement.

Touch screen operator control panel for industrial machines, in particular for the control of manoeuvring of the axes of injection presses for plastics, including an operator interface on which icons are displayed indicating the various axes of a press, the icons being individually selectable in order to be dragged into an area of manoeuvring where they are translatable in the two ways of a prefixed direction to impart the corresponding movements to the selected axis, wherein the possibility is provided of simultaneously displaying in the manoeuvring area icons of several press axes correlated one to the other and of actuating sequentially/selectively the movements of these press axes by dragging a central zone of the manoeuvring area in the corresponding different directions wherein the respective icons of the press axes are displayed.

An operating unit includes a touch-sensitive display screen for displaying an operating program, a control or regulating unit for communicating operating signals to injection molding machine elements, and the operating program is stored in the control or regulating unit, and at least one operating button, upon the actuation of which the control or regulating unit triggers an action of an injection molding machine element. The operating program has a hierarchical system architecture with at least one upper installation-specific level and an upper task-specific level. A selection can be made between different installation regions in the installation-specific central level, between different task regions in the task-specific central level, and a plurality of sublevels. Process-relevant program pages associated only with the selected installation region or only with the selected task region can be displayed in each selected sublevel.

Provided is an injection molding machine management system that includes an injection molding machine and manages one or a plurality of injection molding units that produce a molded article. The injection molding machine management system includes a display unit configured to display a display screen on which operation information on an operation status of the injection molding unit and at least one of container shortage information on a shortage of a container that accommodates the molded article and material shortage information on a shortage of a material for molding the molded article are displayed on an injection molding unit basis. The container shortage information is displayed on the display screen in association with the operation information when the container is insufficient in the injection molding unit, and the material shortage information is displayed on the display screen in association with the operation information when the material is insufficient in the injection molding unit.