Group management system for injection molding machines
First Claim
1. A group management system for injection molding machines, comprising:
- a plurality of injection molding machines;
individual input means associated with each injection molding machine for each inputting data indicative of a type of a molding defect appearing in a molded article produced by one of said injection molding machines; and
a general-purpose high-performance computer connected to said plurality of injection molding machines, installed with a multi-user operating system, adapted to use a molding condition determining program and a molding condition determining database, and operable to automatically modify molding conditions of the individual injection molding machines in accordance with the data indicative of the type of molding defect inputted by said individual input means, through the use of the molding condition determining program and the molding condition determining database.
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Abstract
A group management system for injection molding machines, capable of rapidly determining molding conditions of a plurality of injection molding machines. Data is supplied through first to eleventh input devices (13a-33c), which indicates types of molding defects appearing in molded articles respectively produced under tentative molding conditions by first to eleventh injection molding machines (12a-32c) which form first to third injection molding machine groups (12, 22, 32). First to third work stations connected to the first to third injection molding machine groups (12, 22, 32) determine one or more molding conditions to be modified and the amount of each modification, with respect to the individual first to eleventh injection molding machines, by using a multi-user operating system, and program and database for molding condition determination. The results of the determination are sent to corresponding ones of the injection molding machines, and the individual injection molding machines retry injection molding under the modified molding conditions. This molding condition modifying process is repeated, and when optimum molding conditions that incur no molding defect are determined for all injection molding machines, the process is ended.
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8 Claims
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1. A group management system for injection molding machines, comprising:
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a plurality of injection molding machines; individual input means associated with each injection molding machine for each inputting data indicative of a type of a molding defect appearing in a molded article produced by one of said injection molding machines; and a general-purpose high-performance computer connected to said plurality of injection molding machines, installed with a multi-user operating system, adapted to use a molding condition determining program and a molding condition determining database, and operable to automatically modify molding conditions of the individual injection molding machines in accordance with the data indicative of the type of molding defect inputted by said individual input means, through the use of the molding condition determining program and the molding condition determining database. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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