SAVING MONEY USING INTELLIGENT PROCESS OPTIMIZATION SOFTWARE

摘要

Looking at the increasing quality requirements and the potential for time and cost savings in almost all injection molding processes the classical way of optimizing a process has to be reviewed. New and innovative software solutions for process optimization and quality forecasting therefore plays an important role and helps to answer common questions to the shop floor managers:Is the current machine setting the best one in terms of cycle time and process capability? Is there a potential to save time, material or energy? Which machine parameters have the highest influence on the quality?A new software solution using self generating neu-ronal networks now respond to these questions and supports users without requiring a deep mathematical background. It offers a pragmatic solution to be used by all participants on the shop floor level. Practical experience confirmed that on average 10% reduction in cycle time can be achieved.