A method of monitoring and controlling a molding clamping apparatus in an injection molding or other molding process is disclosed. The method includes creating a target strain profile, receiving a deviation limit, receiving a change in strain relating to a mold while it is closing from a first strain gauge, identifying a deviation from a target strain profile based on the output from the first strain gauge, determining that the deviation exceeds the deviation limit, and adjusting the rate or force of clamp movement. The target strain profile may have a first portion relating to a clamp closing process, a second portion relating to a filling process, and a third portion relating to a clamp opening process. The first portion relating to the clamp closing process may include an intermediate portion relating to a coining process having an intermediate clamp force setpoint.

In an injection molding machine in which intermediate molds are disposed movably in a mold opening/closing direction between a movable platen attached with a movable mold and a stationary platen attached with a stationary mold, setting is simplified when individually setting a setting value related to molding using the movable mold and the intermediate mold and a setting value related to molding using the stationary mold and the intermediate mold. In a method for controlling an injection molding machine 11 in which intermediate molds 18 are disposed movably in a mold opening/closing direction between a movable platen 15 attached with a movable mold 14 and a stationary platen 17 attached with a stationary mold 16, single setting enables setting of both of a setting value related to molding using the movable mold 14 and the intermediate mold 18 and a setting value related to molding using the stationary mold 16 and the intermediate mold 18.

A technique for providing assistance in setting the time to increase the clamping force is provided. A control device of an injection molding machine includes a clamping control part and a monitoring part. The clamping control part is configured to change, in a filling step of filling the inside of a mold device with a molding material during clamping, a set value of clamping force from a first set value to a second set value that is larger than the first set value, at a predetermined pressurizing timing in the middle of the filling step. The monitoring part is configured to monitor changes in the actual value of the clamping force due to changes in the set value of the clamping force.

An injection molding machine uses a controller to effectively control its operation. The controller may determine and/or receive information regarding the machine's maximum load capacity, and may also determine a current operational load value of the machine. The controller may cause the machine to operate at any number of combinations of settings of operational parameters which result in the machine operating at or below the maximum load value by adjusting any number of machine parameters associated with the injection molding machine based on feedback sensors measuring real-time operating conditions of the machine.

A control device for controlling an injection molding machine includes a mold device having a fixed mold and a movable mold; a mold clamping device to open and close the fixed and movable molds; and an injection device to inject a molding material into the mold device; and circuitry to acquire an allowable amount between the fixed and movable molds for preventing discharge of the injected molding material from the mold device, and acquire a gap size for discharging a gas between the fixed and movable molds, and adjust a mold clamping force of the mold clamping device such that a value obtained based on an opening size between the fixed and movable molds generated by injection of the molding material and the gap size satisfies a condition according to the allowable amount when the molding material is injected into the mold device closed by the mold clamping device.

The resin molding device comprises: a lower mold on which a substrate is placed; an upper mold in which a cavity is formed by a side block and a cavity block provided so as to be capable of rising and descending vertically with respect to the side block; a clamp mechanism for clamping the lower mold and the upper mold; a transfer mechanism that supplies a resin material to the cavity by means of a plunger; and a controller that uses the relationship between the position of the plunger and a resin filling rate for the cavity calculated on the basis of the volume of a chip arranged on the substrate and the volume of the resin material when performing filling rate correspondence control for controlling operation relating to resin molding triggered as a result of the plunger arriving at a position corresponding to a predetermined resin filling rate.

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.

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 information processing system includes: a first estimation unit that uses a simulation model of a first movable portion, which is a portion among movable portions of a control target device and whose operation is not affected by a usage mode, to perform estimation related to an operation of the first movable portion based on a command for controlling an operation of the control target device; and a second estimation unit that receives an estimation result of the first estimation unit and that uses a simulation model of a second movable portion, which is a portion among the movable portions of the control target device and whose operation is affected by the usage mode, to perform estimation related to an operation of the second movable portion.

A molding machine includes: a clamping device configured to open, close, and clamp a mold; an injection device configured to inject a molding material into a cavity of the clamped mold; a display device configured to display information; and a control device configured to control the clamping device, the injection device, and the display device. The control device causes the display device to display a warranty list screen displaying respective identifiers of a plurality of components constituting the molding machine in a list for each warranty period.