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process transparency and easier operation. With MyAssist, machine data becomes more usable when performing subsequent analysis. Also, the product offers complete documentation and a knowledge-based troubleshooting feature.” At Arburg’s annual open house event in March
Above: The Efficiency Arena at Arburg’s annual
customer event in Germany in March
SmartOperation is the latest addition to the
group’s SmartMachine product family. Among the other products are APCplus and DataXplorer which analyse the injection moulding process on the basis of the data and automatically adjust the process for optimisation. “The result and advantage of all SmartMachine products are significantly higher process stability and thus increased production efficiency in injection moulding,” says KraussMaffei. Sumitomo (SHI) Demag started the roll-out of its new MyAssist digital tool in January following its debut at the K2022 show. This machine-based tool records real-time series data and evaluates information held by the machine’s control unit, including pressure, temperature or injection profiles, and always relates this to a shot or injec- tion, a component or cycle. “This level of process transparency enables a customer to understand every single production state,” says Thomas Schilling, Digital Solutions Product Manager. The corresponding browser application runs within the customer network and can be used on all devices. All data remains with the customer to ensure security. As well as accessing live data collated by individual control systems on injection moulding machines, MyAssist also allows for corresponding comparisons to be performed on historical data. “Through this creation of an interactive database, customers can select, record, trace and analyse the most relevant key perfor- mance indicators in much greater depth,” says Schilling. Historical data can also be used for product-related information in the European Commission’s planned digital product passport. Sumitomo (SHI) Demag says: “When information such as CO2 consumption and recycling rate are recorded during the production of a component, it creates more robust documentation of its corre- sponding ecological footprint. Additionally, rising shortages of qualified personnel requires greater
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at its HQ in Lossburg, Germany – renamed Anniver- sary Days just for 2023 in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the Hehl family business that owns Arburg – the company’s Efficiency Arena centred on the key topics of digitalisation, resource conservation and the circular economy. Here, there were nine stations for visitors, six on the topic of ArburgGreenworld and three on ArburgXworld, where Arburg and selected partners demonstrated how digitalisation and innovative solutions enable a sustainable circular economy. A key exhibit was a hybrid Allrounder machine
that produced Fischer dowels from the Greenline series. The plastic product consists of 50% castor oil. The machine was equipped with the recyclate package and Arburg’s new AXW Control RecyclatePi- lot, which ensures a stable shot weight by means of adaptive process control and can compensate for fluctuating material qualities. In the demonstration, the sprues were ground immediately and fed back into the process as post-industrial recyclate. Arburg also presented its sustainability strategies, the ArburgXworld customer portal and the ALS host computer system in the Efficiency Arena. At the Fakuma 2023 show in Friedrichshafen, Germany in October, Arburg is adding extra elements. In its new ArburgSolutionworld feature, it will discuss how it can support customers facing a shortage of skilled workers, in addition to energy and efficiency needs. The company says its Action Plan: Energy includes energy advice, machine updates and consumption measurements to help customers save resources and energy, especially in these economically and politically tense times. The Arburg host computer system ALS, along with individual processes and customer-specific manufacturing solutions, will be used to demon- strate at Fakuma how high quality standards can be maintained despite price and cost pressures that moulders face. Visitors can also find out how they can use digital services such as the ArburgXworld customer portal and smart assistance functions from the Gestica control system to help deal with the shortage of skilled workers. On every Wittmann Battenfeld machine at its
Fakuma 2023 stand, an energy measurement will be carried out using the IMAGOxt software, a proprietary development from the Wittman Digital business. This provides visualisation of the energy
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