A control system and a control method of manufacturing injection molding products are provided. The control system includes an injection molding machine, an information input interface, a computing server and a data conversion device. At first, product information is inputted through the information input interface. The product information is transmitted to the computing server, and then the computing server determines injection molding parameters according to the product information. The injection molding parameters are transmitted to the information input interface. After data conversion through the data conversion device, the injection molding machine is controlled to manufacture the injection molding products according to the converted injection molding parameters.

An apparatus for controlling the rate of flow of fluid mold material from an injection molding machine to a mold cavity, the apparatus comprising: a manifold having a fluid delivery channel, an actuator interconnected to a valve pin having a tip end drivable between a first position, a second position upstream and a third position upstream of the second position, the actuator and the valve pin being translationally driven by a valve system adjustable between a start position, a plurality of intermediate drive rate positions and a high drive rate position, a pressure sensor and a controller, the pressure sensor sensing a metered pressure of a drive fluid, the controller instructing the valve system to drive valve pin continuously upstream and including instructions that instruct the valve system to move according to a predetermined profile of metered pressures from the start position to selected intermediate drive rate positions and subsequently to the high drive rate position.

An injection molding machine system includes an injection molding machine, a cloud server, and a terminal apparatus. Cloud server is configured to communicate with injection molding machine, and stores data indicative of an operating state of injection molding machine. Terminal apparatus is configured to communicate with cloud server, and display information from cloud server. Injection molding machine is configured to transmit the data to cloud server at a predetermined timing and when injection molding machine is not performing a molding operation.

An injection molding machine management system includes an injection molding machine, a first detecting section configured to detect at least one of a physical quantity of the injection molding machine and a physical quantity of a molded article, an on-premise server, and a Cloud server. The Cloud server includes a first storing section configured to store information concerning at least one of the physical quantity of the injection molding machine and the physical quantity of the molded article detected by the first detecting section and a virtual machine configured to generate a control rule for the injection molding machine based on the information. The on-premise server includes a second storing section configured to store the control rule and a control section configured to perform, based on the control rule, control of the injection molding machine corresponding to at least one of the physical quantity of the injection molding machine and the physical quantity of the molded article detected by the first detecting section.

A molding machine management system includes: an injection molding machine including a mold, an injection unit, and a mold clamping unit; a management server coupled to the injection molding machine via a network; a first camera configured to capture an image of the mold; a second camera configured to capture an image of a drive unit provided in the injection molding machine; and a storage unit that stores first moving image data which is moving image data of the mold captured by the first camera, and second moving image data which is moving image data of the drive unit captured by the second camera, in association with a shot number of the injection molding machine. The management server includes a control unit configured to cause a display unit to display the first moving image data and the second moving image data in association with the shot number.

An operation state management system includes one or a plurality of servers configured to manage operation states of a plurality of industrial machines, and one or a plurality of terminals configured to communicate with the server. Information on the operation states of the plurality of industrial machines is periodically transmitted to the server and stored. The server includes an operation state management screen displayed on the terminal in response to a call from the terminal. A plurality of cards corresponding to each of the plurality of industrial machines are displayed on the operation state management screen, and each of the cards displays an industrial machine identification name, an operation rate, and a current operation state of the corresponding industrial machine.

An injection molding system is disclosed. The injection molding system includes: a mold; a hot runner including: a manifold; one or more injection nozzles coupled to the manifold; a plurality of heaters in thermal contact with the manifold and the one or more injection nozzles, the heaters being arranged into one or more defined heating zones within the hot runner; and at least one temperature sensor associated with each heating zone, and a system controller coupled to the plurality of heaters, the system controller being configured to: for each heating zone: determine a setpoint temperature associated with the heating zone; obtain, via a temperature sensor, measurement of a current local temperature of the heating zone; determine a control gain value associated with the heating zone; and compute a predicted heating time for the heating zone based on the setpoint temperature, the current local temperature, and the control gain value, determine a heating schedule for the hot runner based on the predicted heating times for the heating zones; and operate the plurality of heaters in accordance with the heating schedule.

An injection molding machine includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire, during a mold opening operation of a mold, at least one of a first measurement value relating to a resistance when a protrusion operation of an ejector pin to release a molding product from the mold in a mold-opened state is performed and a second measurement value relating to a resistance when an accommodation operation of the ejector pin is performed; and an estimation unit configured to estimate an amount of deposition of a mold deposit deposited on the mold, based on at least one of the first measurement value, excluding an element before the molding product is released or lowering a priority of the element, and the second measurement value.

a molding management system for managing 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 includes an information processing device communicatively connected to a terminal device, wherein the information processing device includes a storage section configured to store data relating to an injection molding and the data is associated with information unique to the injection molding device as device identification information for identifying the injection molding device.