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integrated injection molding production to new levels of quality and efficiency. For many years now, customers in the plastics
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processing industry have been able to rely on ComoNeo: high-precision cavity pressure monitoring turns injection molding into a transparent process with vasty improved quality and optimum use of resources. Users can choose from a whole series of monitoring and control functions to improve their specific injection molding processes – even including model-based prediction of part quality, assisted by artificial intelligence (ComoNeoPREDICT). And now, monitoring of the pressure curves in
The 9323AA press force sensor from Kistler monitors both the drug insertion step and the reintegration of the actuator module into the auto-injector (Source: Kistler Group)
version of the maXYmos TL process monitoring system is one result of these activities; it offers an FDA- compliant user management system and makes process validation even simpler than before thanks to predefined routines.
Close Collaboration with the medteCh seCtor and pharmaCeutiCal industry
“The whole venture - from providing the machines and implementing the processes to completing the first customer project at Ivers-Lee - took about six to eight months,” Balasso continues. “Thanks to the time that both we and Ypsomed invested, we now have an ideal platform that can efficiently meet varying customer requirements for product development.” The trend is towards extremely high-quality, high-end products that are often
During final assembly of an auto- injector at Ivers-Lee – monitored by Kistler systems – the drive unit is removed, the prefilled syringe is inserted and the drive unit is then replaced (Source: Ivers-Lee)
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elaborately packaged to give the patient a sense of confidence.” Reto Maffioli adds: “Time-to-
market is often the decisive factor nowadays, and this is where force- displacement monitoring from Kistler gives us the critical edge. It also helps to ensure process capability and guarantees the quality of the final product. And it offers another huge benefit: the analysis of force-displacement curves gives me a solid basis of data - the basis I need for discussions with customers throughout the world. That often simplifies and accelerates process assessment and decision-making procedures because it's clear that everybody is talking the same language.” This will also apply to future app-controlled “smart” systems for patients to administer their medication. These systems will do much more than ensuring that the device is operated correctly; they will also allow patients to use the stored data as the basis for clear, responsible answers to doctors and health insurers - so they will be able to continuously improve their self- medication or adapt it to new circumstances.
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all cavities is even more accurate: thanks to a new function integrated into ComoNeo 4.1, profiles can be checked for deviations with outstanding precision. This function calculates an “envelope curve” on the basis of any desired number of curves, providing a reference for stable injection molding processes. This is especially helpful when users need to evaluate individual events or even (almost) the entire profile for compliance with critical tolerances - and they can also set the quality criteria manually. ComoNeo 4.1
also includes two new software modules that respond to increased requirements for electronic production records in the medtech industry: With ComoNeoLDAP, ComoNeo can use your company’s existing Windows user management - the key to direct, automated management of existing user guidelines. Another innovation is ComoNeoLOG: this feature ensures secure, time-indexed electronic storage of all user activities that involve changing or deleting electronic records - the audit trail, as it is known. To ensure an even more comfortable user
experience, ComoNeo from Kistler now includes WLAN functionality: a normal commercial USB stick with Wi-Fi capability is all that is needed to integrate the system into a company’s existing network via WLAN. The benefit: users can now connect the process monitoring system to the production environment via wireless. To raise connectivity and usability to even
higher levels, ComoNeo’s user interface (UI) has been expanded in both directions: with the “External UI” function, users can now view external data on ComoNeo's display. And the ComoNeo UI can also be viewed on the machine control (or elsewhere) via VNC (Virtual Network Computing). This means that customers can now assemble their individual HMI on a variety of devices.
Kistler
www.kistler.com August 2022 Instrumentation Monthly
istler has added a whole series of new features to its ComoNeo process monitoring system – taking
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