Disclosed is a method of adjusting a motion profile of a shooting pot plunger for use in a molding system, the shooting pot plunger slidably movable within a shooting pot cavity, the method comprising: sensing a characteristic at a predetermined location in an injection circuit of the molding system; determining that the sensed characteristic is outside of a threshold range; adjusting the motion profile of the shooting pot plunger to account for determining that the sensed characteristic is outside of the threshold range; and storing the adjusted motion profile in a memory.

Disclosed is a method of adjusting a motion profile of a shooting pot plunger for use in a molding system, the shooting pot plunger slidably movable within a shooting pot cavity, the method comprising: sensing a characteristic at a predetermined location in an injection circuit of the molding system; determining that the sensed characteristic is outside of a threshold range; adjusting the motion profile of the shooting pot plunger to account for determining that the sensed characteristic is outside of the threshold range; and storing the adjusted motion profile in a memory.

An injection molding machine includes a screw provided in a cylinder having a nozzle at a tip so that the screw is allowed to be driven in a rotational direction and an axial direction, a drive device configured to drive the screw, and a control device configured to control an operation of the drive device, wherein the drive device has a rotatably provided ball screw shaft and a nut screwed onto the ball screw shaft and moved forward and backward in response to rotation of the ball screw shaft, and includes a ball screw configured to drive the screw in the axial direction by forward and backward movement of the nut, and the control device sequentially moves a screw position before injection and a screw position after injection in a molding process cycle so that a forward/backward movement range of the nut in the molding process cycle is dispersed.