SHOW REVIEW | FAKUMA 2017
FAKUMA 2017 | SHOW REVIEW
Left: Arburg has qualified a new PP 3D print grade and support material for use with its Freeformer machine
2016 consolidated turnover of €636m and predict- ed at least as good a performance for 2018. Part of that success comes from the automotive sector, where the company has developed several technological solutions to meet demands for lighter parts that do not compromise on cost or performance. It currently has seven machines in its Customer Centre at its headquarters at Lossburg in Germany dedicated to lightweight moulding methods such as the Profoam and MuCell foaming processes and its own Fibre Direct Compounding (FDC) process. Arburg Managing Director of Sales, Gerhard
The Gestica control system is based on the
structure of Arburg’s Selogica system and data sets are fully compatible. It differs in its HMI, which uses freely configurable hardware keys and a new “Easy Slide” touch function to allow movements to be controlled by a finger swipe down the edge of the high resolution touch screen. The new control system also offers more power to support sophisticated networked assistance systems for the future, such as machine learning. Arburg Managing Director of Technology and Engineering, Heinz Gaub, explained that machine learning is not an artificial intelligence technology but a smarter approach to capturing and using data. “It means the control system is able to recognise certain patterns and characteristics, such as a reference curve. If there is a disturbance or deviation the delta will be stored and if I have 20 or more Arburg machines I can share this data. That’s what we mean [with machine learning], developing a database beyond the operation of one machine and using that to develop patterns.” However, recognising that some Arburg custom- ers will prefer the familiarity of the Selogica system, the company has decided to retain it as an option for the 920H. “Selogica will look a bit different,” Gaub says. “But Selogica has extensive functionali- ties and is a control that is well proven. We will continue to provide it.” The Allrounder 920H was demonstrated at
Fakuma producing a 710g housing in glass reinforced PA6 on a 75s cycle time. The machine was equipped with an Arburg Multilift V40 beam robot, which removed the parts and collated them into sets of five at an interim station before packag- ing and placing on a conveyor. The company said the 920H machine will be available for order from March next year. Arburg Managing Partner, Michael Hehl, said the company was on course this year to exceed its
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Böhm, said the FDC technology, which uses a special material feeding system that allows direct compounding and production of long fibre thermoplastics (LFT) parts on the moulding machine, has proven extremely successful. Arburg’s customer ROS Coburg is using it, for example, to produce parts for automotive door mechatronics firm Brose. “We are not talking about a lot of companies using it,” Böhm said. “It is a handful of companies, but we can see the demand for lightweight moulding of bigger parts.” The FDC technology was developed for Arburg by the German SKZ institute. It is currently carry- ing out further detailed research to determine how stable the fibre distribution is in industrial production. Arburg also displayed its latest innovation in the 3D printing arena, demonstrating its Freeformer additive manufacturing system producing parts in a fully qualified polypropylene resin for the first time (semi-crystalline resins such as PP are difficult to process in additive manufacturing systems due to their high shrinkage). A special water soluble support material – Armat 12 – has been developed for processing the Moplen PP grade from Lyondell- Basell. The material was demonstrated procing a cable tie with snap-lock feature. “By qualifying PP and developing the Armat 12
support material specifically with PP in mind, we’ve achieved a significant breakthrough in extending the range of materials suitable for industrial additive manufacturing,” said Dr Eberhard Duffner, Director Research and Development and Plastic Freeforming at the company.
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