Tag: injection
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ICON sees 20 percent production boost and 40 percent cost reduction through Formic robotics
Formic, a provider of automation across American manufacturing, says its automation partnership with ICON Injection Molding, which involved the deployment of Formic’s Tend solution, has been “successful”. Arizona-based ICON Injection Molding, which produces plastic parts for laboratory use and defense equipment for clients like Axon, recognized the need to automate but was unable to overcome…
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Machine Vision: Pick and place with FLIR thermal imaging cameras
Machine vision inspections using visual cameras can occasionally cause recognition problems if the product and background have too little color contrast. In such cases, thermal imaging cameras can be a practical solution – especially if the product has a different temperature than the transport medium. In many cases such temperature differences are caused by the…
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Micromolding Service for Droplet Microfluidic Chips Market
Droplet microfluidics is a recent trend of laboratory automation technologies, which allow scientists to explore the biological world at an unprecedented resolution and throughput. The new infrastructure is powered by innovative instrumentation, software as well as the consumable reagents and chips. In this context, plastic chips play a key role in enabling these applications, as…
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Plastic Injection Molding Machines: Types and Benefits
Injection molding is a manufacturing process for producing parts from both thermoplastic and thermoset materials. Injection molding machines are used to inject molten plastic into a mold cavity, where it cools and hardens to the shape of the cavity. There are many different types of injection molding machines, each with its own set of benefits.…
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Different Injection Mold Machines and What They’re Used For
Manufacturing plastic products requires the use of injection molding machines. These come in a variety of sizes and types, each of which is designed for specific applications. In this article, we will take a look at some of the more popular types of injection mold machines and what they’re used for. Injection molding machines are…
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Quaternium and Löweheiser claim ‘new flight record’ with Hybrix drone
Quaternium has partnered with Löweheiser to achieve what it claims is “a new flight record” of 10 hours 14 minutes with HYBRiX drone. (See video below.) The inventor of hybrid drones is making history again with an impressive hovering flight of 10 hours and 14 minutes with their world leading fuel-electric multirotor HYBRiX. For this…
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How Robotics Work in the Plastic Injection Molding Industry
Driven by the never-ending increasing demand for more flexible solutions, industrial robots are extensively used in today’s plastics industry in all areas of the production process, including injection molding related operations. Industrial robots can be used to automate the injection molding process by using a pick-and-place robot to load plastic parts into the machine or…
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New Universal Robots interface enables ‘fast’ implementation of injection molding applications
Universal Robots has launched a new interface which it says enables faster implementation of injection molding applications. With the Injection Molding Machine Interface (IMMI), Universal Robots says it has launched a “user-friendly and quick solution” for plastics manufacturers to integrate Universal Robots with injection molding machines. Plastics manufacturers are increasingly turning to collaborative robots to…
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Fanuc and SICK develop new safety integration for robot machine tending
A collaboration between Fanuc and SICK has pioneered new safety integration for robot machine tending that points the way towards simpler, more cost-effective and adaptable solutions in future. ROBOTS excel in heavy, repetitive and high-speed tasks, far surpassing humans in their repeatable, reliable performance. For this reason, the manual operation of machine tending – ubiquitous…
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Volume Graphics partners with industry consortium to improve rapid-prototyping of plastic mold inserts
Volume Graphics, a provider of industrial computed tomography software, is partnering in a second joint project on “rapid tooling” with companies from a wide range of industries. The company’s partnership is with the Kunststoff-Institut, in Germany. As a project partner, Volume Graphics brings expertise in quality assurance and process optimization to the team via its…