Method for checking the suitability of a moulding tool for a defined moulding process includes providing an electronic dataset in which each of different features of a moulding tool has a range of possible values; selecting a feature of the electronic dataset as a characterizing feature; establishing an identity of the moulding tool by at least one value of the value range of the characterizing feature, wherein a moulding tool to be checked is regarded as identical to the moulding tool precisely when the established value is present in relation to the characterizing feature; providing an electronic tool dataset including a plurality of different features; allocating the electronic tool dataset to the moulding tool with the established identity by a computing unit; and checking the electronic tool dataset with the computing unit in relation to the suitability of a moulding tool with the established identity in the defined moulding process.

A system for setting injection-molding conditions and a method for setting actual molding conditions of an injection-molding machine are disclosed. The system includes a computer and an injection-molding equipment. The computer is configured to simulate, via computer-aided simulation software, a virtual molding using a plurality of design parameters to generate a plurality of provisional molding conditions. The injection-molding equipment is associated with the computer and configured to perform at least one trial molding using the provisional molding conditions to obtain a plurality of intermediate molding conditions. The computer optimizes the provisional molding conditions to obtain actual molding conditions in accordance with the intermediate molding conditions.

A system for setting injection-molding conditions and a method for setting actual molding conditions of an injection-molding machine are disclosed. The system includes a computer and an injection-molding equipment. The computer is configured to simulate, via computer-aided simulation software, a virtual molding using a plurality of design parameters to generate a plurality of provisional molding conditions. The injection-molding equipment is associated with the computer and configured to perform at least one trial molding using the provisional molding conditions to obtain a plurality of intermediate molding conditions. The computer optimizes the provisional molding conditions to obtain actual molding conditions in accordance with the intermediate molding conditions.

A method for manufacturing an injection molded container includes operating an injection molding apparatus to inject one or more polymeric materials into a mold cavity to form a container. The container includes an energy director ring protruding from an inside surface of the container and extending circumferentially along the inside surface. The method includes welding a filter onto the inside surface by applying a welding force to the inside surface. The energy director ring causes the welding force to be concentrated at a location of the energy director ring, thereby forming a circumferential weld that secures the filter to the inside surface the location of the energy director ring.

Disclosed herein, amongst other things, is a molding system (100) comprising control structure that includes a mold (120) that is configured to mold a molded article (180), a controller (170) with which to control the operation of the molding structure, and a vision system (174) with which to appreciate a parameter of the molded article (180) for control of molding system (100).

Disclosed is an injection molding process control method of a multi-color injection molding machine, and its automated process setting includes a mold-opening ending process setting and a mold-closing ending process setting. The mold-opening ending process setting includes a multiple of action options sequentially carried out after a setting is selected from the mold-opening ending automated process option, and the mold-closing ending process setting is a setting selected from the mold-closing ending automated process option according to each switching action, so that the multi-color injection molding machine can use a page of the automated process setting together with the desired action option to click and select a setting according to different injection molding objects or molds, so as to complete the correction and setting of the injection stroke quickly and improve the operational efficiency of the injection molding.

A control device of an injection molding machine, for controlling operations of multiple elements operating during the period of mold closing or mold opening, includes: an operation starting condition setting unit for, concerning at least part of the elements, setting an operation starting condition of one of the elements that operates in conjunction with another one thereof by an operator operating an operation unit; a group setting unit for classifying the elements based on the operation starting conditions so that elements operating in conjunction with each other belong to the same group; an operation sequence setting unit for setting order of the operations of the elements belonging to the same group based on the operation starting conditions; and a drive command generator for generating drive commands for driving the injection molding machine so as to cause the elements belonging to the same group to operate in the set order.

A computer implemented method for generating a mold model for production predictive control and computer program products thereof. The method comprises receiving first parameters about molding machine sensors and second parameters about mold cavity; classifying each injection cycle of a plurality of injection cycles of a first injection molding machine considering the first and second parameters and quality or characteristics of injected given parts in the machine; processing the first and second parameters to remove undesired or irregular data values thereof; merging the first and second parameters providing a global group of processed parameters; executing a machine learning algorithm on the global group of processed parameters generating an extended mold model; and using said generated extended mold model for further monitoring and control of the mold in further injection processes in the first injection molding machine and/or for optimizing a production process of the mold in the first molding machine.

An injection molding machine includes: a controller configured to instruct an operation indicated by first or second operation information associated with at least either first or second image information displayed on a display, or to execute processing by a system program, wherein the first and second operation information is information about an injection molding operation according to a first or second production condition, and operation information about first and second molds or operation information about a mold clamping mechanism from beginning to completion of the injection molding operation, the display displays a plurality of operating points indicating positions of the first mold, the second mold or the mold clamping mechanism relative to time or process from the beginning of the injection molding operation, and line segments connecting the plurality of operating points, and the first and second image information are displayed on the operating points.

A specific mold status Ac is caused in advance in which the interval of an inner portion Xi in the parting plane direction of a parting gap C between a fixed mold 2c and a movable mold 2m during the injection filling is larger than the interval of an outer edge portion Xo and the interval of the outer edge portion Xo is equal to or lower than a predetermined size Ls including 0. A molding injection pressure Pi is set as an injection pressure at which a non-defective product can be molded and a molding mold clamping force Pc is set as a mold clamping force by which a non-defective product can be molded. During the production, a mold 2 is clamped by a molding mold clamping force Pc and the clamped mold 2 is filled with the injected resin R by a molding injection pressure Pi. After a predetermined cooling time Tc has passed, a molded piece G is removed.