There is provided a molding management system including a server communicably connected to a terminal device, the molding management system managing production of a product in a production process including an injection molding process for the product by an injection molding device. The server includes a storage unit configured to store a plurality of pieces of lot information in which lot identification information for identifying a lot of the product and lot related information including one or more pieces of information concerning the lot of the product are associated with each other and a control unit configured to cause the terminal device to display a lot movement image for receiving lot moving operation for moving the product between a selected pair of the lots among the lots indicated by the plurality of pieces of lot information stored in the storage unit.

A molding management system including a server communicably connected to a terminal device, the molding management system managing production of a product in a production process including an injection molding process for the product by an injection molding device, wherein the server includes: a storage unit configured to store one or more pieces of lot information in which lot identification information for identifying a lot of the product and lot related information including history information indicating a history concerning the product of at least the lot as one or more pieces of information concerning the lot of the product are associated with each other; and a control unit configured to cause the terminal device to display a history information display image for displaying the history information included in the lot related information of the lot information indicating a selected target lot among the lots indicated by the one or more pieces of lot information stored in the storage unit.

A molding management system that manages production of a product in a production process including an injection molding process of the product by an injection molding device. The molding management system including a server with a storage section configured to store one or more sets of lot information in which lot identification information for identifying a lot and lot related information are associated with each other and a control section configured to cause a terminal device to display a material consumption action related information addition image that receives a material consumption action related information addition operation for adding material consumption action related information related to an action of consuming the material used for molding the product for adjustment a target injection molding device to the lot information indicating a target lot selected from the lots indicated by one or more sets of the lot information.

A controller of an injection molding machine includes a detection part configured to detect whether or not a process in each process performed in the injection molding machine has started based on preset conditions in the process, and an output part configured to output waveform information representing a change of a performance value detected in the process or a subsequent process that is subsequent to the process when the detection part detects that the process has started.

An injection molding machine including an injection device which performs an injection filling process of injecting and filling a molding material into a mold composed of a movable mold and a stationary mold and having a predetermined mold gap therebetween, a mold clamping device which performs a compression process of applying a predetermined mold closing pressure to the mold into which the molding material has been injected and filled, thereby compressing the molding material, and a molding machine controller which controls the injection device and the mold clamping device, wherein the molding machine controller is configured to allow setting of mold clamping conditions for the clamping device, the mold clamping conditions including a predetermined mold gap between the movable mold and the stationary mold, a predetermined mold clamping force, a predetermined back pressure for the movable mold, a predetermined mold closing pressure, and a predetermined mold closing pressure adjustment condition associated with a compression state of the molding material, the injection device performs the injection filling process of injecting and filling the molding material into the mold of the mold clamping device for which the mold clamping conditions have been set, and the mold clamping device performs the compression process for the mold, into which the molding material has been injected and filled, on the basis of the mold clamping conditions including the mold closing pressure adjustment condition.

An injection molding machine includes an injection apparatus that injects an injection material into a mold and a clamping apparatus that clamps the mold. An injection control device that controls injection of the injection material by the injection apparatus is connected to a clamping control device to communicate data therewith, the clamping control device controlling a magnet clamp of the clamping apparatus.

An injection molding machine, includes: a storage device configured to store change information entities related to a plurality of items included in a molding condition; a display device configured to display a set screen for setting a set value to at least one item of the plurality of items; an input device configured to input an item selection operation to select one item from the items in the set screen displayed on the display device; and a control device configured to cause the display device to display an item setting history screen including a change information entity display section to display only the change information entity related to the item selected by the item selection operation superimposed on the set screen.

A hot runner process controller configured to monitor the status and operation of a hot runner system to autonomously generate information to improve the quality of injection molding process of a hot runner system having an inlet nozzle, one or more manifolds and one or more nozzles with actuator or without actuator, and one or more heating elements, the hot runner process controller is self-operating, and independent from the injection molding machine, includes: one or more sensors located on, in or at the hot runner system to detect the status and/or the operation of the hot runner system, and a processing unit and a memory. The processing unit is connected to the one or more sensors, wherein the memory stores data and program codes. The processing unit is configured to load and execute the program code to compare sensor information with the stored data and to determine if the hot runner system is in an operable status, and in case the hot runner system is in an operable status, configured to generate status information to activate the one or more heating elements and/or the one or more actuators enabling a production operation of the injection molding machine. In case the hot runner system is not in an operable status, configured to generate status information to deactivate the one or more heating elements and/or close or deactivate the one or more actuators disabling a production operation of the injection molding machine.

A setting support system includes: a first reception unit that receives, regarding a setting of sequence control that controls a series of operations in a machine, inputs of component information indicating an operation component that operates in the series of operations and operation order information indicating an operation order of the operation component; a processing unit that specifies a time range in which each of a plurality of target operations constituting the series of operations is executable based on the component information and the operation order information and a logic of a sequence for the series of operations; and a display control unit that displays, on a display device, a sequence image in which a plurality of target images corresponding to each of the plurality of target operations are disposed in an execution order, based on the time range specified for each of the plurality of target operations.

An operation screen of a magnet clamp is displayed on a controller of an injection molding machine. A mold clamping device of the injection molding machine is provided with the magnet clamp. The operation screen is for controlling the magnet clamp to perform clamping or unclamping of a mold.