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weeks of production time on a similar machine it had supplied to one of its other customers, allowing the Molex moulds to be trialled while the production machine was still being constructed at the German factory. This helped hold to the connector maker’s demanding time schedules. Further time was saved at the installation and
commissioning stage by sending the Molex machine direct from the Sumitomo (SHI) Demag factory to the Hofmann Innovation mouldmaking plant. “We were able to test the materials, fit the moulds, complete validation and commissioning so that when the machine got to Molex all we had to do was install the system,” says Nigel Flowers, managing director of Sumitomo (SHI) Demag’s UK subsidiary. The installation team then worked 24 hours-a-day
over the Christmas period at the Molex factory at Shannon in Ireland to have the validated system in
production on time. “This project involved a new customer, new product type and a new sector for Molex globally - we had to be 100% confident that our chosen partners could deliver a manufacturing solution that was both capable and reliable,” says Costello. “Sumitomo (SHI) Demag, in conjunction with the other stakeholders Hofmann, Männer and John Goff [at G&A Moulding Technology], really helped us to de-risk the entire project.” The 350 tonne Multi machine is the largest and most
recent Sumitomo Demag machine to be installed at the Molex moulding operation.
Click on the links for more information: ❙
www.sumitomo-shi-demag.eu ❙
www.hofmann-innovation.com ❙
www.maenner-group.com ❙
www.gandamoulding.co.uk
Above left:
The Sumitomo Demag Multi machine
installed in the Molex plant at Shannon in Ireland
Above right: Finished parts are removed from the 8+8
cavity mould by robot and
placed on an indexing conveyor
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