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BASF automates test sample production
BASF has installed a fully automated cell for injection moulding of test specimens at its Injection Moulding & Extrusion Pilot Plant at Ludwigshafen in Germany. The cell was developed with injection moulding machinery maker Sumitomo (SHI) Demag and is said to be capable of producing more than 4,000 test settings/year. It is linked in to a new MES system, which maps and records each test sequence. “Unlike our former MES
systems, this one logs every single aspect of a trial and the results, giving us insight for every single shot. This data is extremely valuable as it represents the entire processing sequence and enables us to draw deeper conclusions about how materials perform under certain conditions and how a customer might later
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BASF’s new automated test specimen production cell
process it,” said Angelika Homes, Senior Project Engineer at BASF. The cell is based on an all-electric 100 tonne IntElect moulding machine equipped with two robots — a linear robot is used to select and place one of 12 interchangeable mould inserts and to extract the
moulded specimen while a small articulated robot removes the sprue using a punch.
All samples are produced
in accordance with the ISO 294 standard and are moulded in thicknesses from 0.8mm to 4.0mm. �
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