Physical quantity data indicating a state of a predetermined part constituting an industrial machine is acquired. The acquired physical quantity data and time data indicating an acquisition time of the physical quantity data are stored in association with each other. A function for estimating a change in a parameter value correlated with a life of the predetermined part over time is calculated on the basis of the acquired physical quantity data and the time data. A failure time or a failure probability of the predetermined part is calculated using the calculated function.

A container treatment system comprising a production machine for producing a preform, in particular an injection molding machine, at least one container treatment machine arranged downstream of the production machine in a transport direction of the preform, and a control unit, wherein the production machine and the at least one container treatment machine are integral with one another, wherein the control unit is designed to synchronize a first operation of the production machine and a second operation of the at least one container treatment machine with one another.

A molding monitoring apparatus acquires an image of a molding molded by an injection molding machine, determines whether abnormality is present in the molding, and specifies an abnormality occurrence position thereof when the abnormality is present. Further, the molding monitoring apparatus calculates the number of abnormality occurrences for each abnormality occurrence position, and compares, among the calculated number of abnormality occurrences for each abnormality occurrence position, the number of abnormality occurrences for each abnormality occurrence position in a certain term with the number of abnormality occurrences for each abnormality occurrence position in another term.

An injection molding system includes a plurality of inspection apparatuses for inspecting molded article quality, a unit that transports a molded article molded by an injection molding machine, a molded article containment unit that is provided for each of types of post-treatment operations needed for the molded article, a transport destination designation unit that selects and designates the molded article containment unit to contain the molded article on the basis of a combination of inspection results from the plurality of inspection apparatuses, and a molded article sorting and transport unit that sorts and transports the molded article into the molded article containment unit designated by the transport destination designation unit.

A management system of injection molding machines includes molding cells, each of which including at least an injection molding machine and a temporary storage device configured to store data from devices in each molding cell at prescribed intervals, and a management device that is connected with the molding cells through communications lines and stores the data stored in the temporary storage device. The temporary storage device overwrites the data sequentially from the oldest data to the newest data in cycles, and stores the data for a prescribed number of cycles. A signal that is selected in advance from signals generated by the devices in each molding cell or by the management device is input to the temporary storage device as a trigger signal, and when the temporary storage device receives the trigger signal, the temporary storage device outputs the stored data to the management device.

Apparatus for checking a state of a machine part of a shaping machine, comprising an evaluation unit, at least one power loss sensor for ascertaining a power loss measurement signal which is representative of a power loss in and/or at the machine part, and at least one movement sensor for ascertaining a movement measurement signal which is representative of a movement of the machine part, wherein the evaluation unit is adapted to compute a damage indicator for the machine part from the power loss measurement signal and from the movement measurement signal.

In order to calculate a ball screw abrasion amount of an injection-axis ball screw or a mold-clamping-axis ball screw, a position of a ball nut fitted to the ball screw is photographed by a camera installed in an injection molding machine. Then, if the photographed position of the ball nut is found, as a result of analysis of an image captured by the camera, to be deviated from the position of the ball nut when a ball screw has no abrasion, it is determined that the ball screw is abraded.

First training data including a set value related to a molding machine, a measured value obtained by measuring a physical quantity related to molding, and a degree of quality of a molded product generated by the molding machine is collected, a first learning model for outputting a degree of quality of a molded product when a set value and a measured value are input is generated by machine learning based on collected first training data, second training data including a defect degree for each defect type of a molded product, a measured value, and a set value capable of reducing the defect degree is collected, and a second learning model for outputting a set value capable of reducing a defect degree when a defect degree and a measured value are input is generated by machine learning based on collected second training data and a degree of quality output from the first learning model.

An injection molding machine management system, which manages an injection molding unit including an injection molding machine and a peripheral device that performs a previous step or a subsequent step of a molding step, includes a first display unit that displays a first screen for displaying a state of the molding step of the injection molding machine. The first screen includes a first screen area and a second screen area. The first screen area displays a first indicator related to quality in the molding step of the injection molding machine, and the second screen area displays a second indicator related to quality in the previous step of the molding step or the subsequent step of the molding step.

A molding machine management device that is able to couple to a molding machine includes a storage unit configured to store, in chronological order, numerical value information on a molding process when a molded product is molded by the molding machine and four-factor information on four factors of production which includes a man, a machine, a material, and a method when the molded product is produced, and an output control unit configured to classify the numerical value information into a plurality of groups for periods divided according to time when the four factors of production changes, and output the numerical value information classified into the plurality of groups to an output unit in group units.