Machinery makers focus on smarter injection moulding processes

摘要

Machinery "connectedness", new applications, technology upgrades and extensions to injection moulding machinery ranges were the theme of this year's Fakuma show in Germany. Wittmann Battenfeld unveiled a new line of servo-hydraulic machines, dubbed Smartpower, which it says completely recaptures the energy released in the machine's deceleration channeling it back into its operations, along with a series of new auxiliary equipment and robots. The Smartpower uses the company's kinetic energy recovery system, or KERS, to change the energy released by the machine's deceleration into electrical energy for the drive system, heating the barrel or powering the control system.