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Injection moulding
News Release from: Moldflow Vertriebs | Subject: Moldflow Manufacturing Solutions 1.0
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 02 May 2003
Software aids process and production
monitoring
Collaborative Manufacturing Management system for plastics injection moulding and metal diecasting captures and makes available extensive process and production data for performance management.
At the 2003 International Moldflow User Conference, Moldflow released Moldflow Manufacturing Solutions (MMS) 1.0, new software which integrates a series of applications based on Moldflow Plastics Xpert (MPX) and Moldflow Shotscope MMS 1.0 is a Collaborative Manufacturing Management (CMM) system for the plastics injection moulding and metal diecasting industries that captures and makes available extensive process and production data for use in real-time business performance management
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 31 Aug 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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* MMS/Process Control - a plastics injection moulding process control system designed to maintain optimum processing conditions.
* MMS/Production Scheduler - used for production scheduling of various mould/machine/material combinations.
* MMS/Production Manager - provides "at-a-glance" information on machine uptime/downtime, part counts, defect tracking and machine efficiencies.
* MMS/Operator Station - the "at-the-machine" interface for users to login, enter part defect and machine downtime causes and view job-specific information.
* MMS/Statistical Process Control - used to monitor the process and alarm or divert parts should process limits be violated.
• MMS/Statistical Quality Control - SQC data can be recorded and associated with shot-specific process data for correlation with SPC data.
* MMS/Process Analyzer - used to display and analyse real-time or historical process profiles.
* MMS/Production Reporting - used to communicate critical process and production data in near real-time so informed business decisions can be made.
MMS 1.0 can be installed on virtually any plastics injection moulding machine, and interfaces to more than 30 process controllers from leading plastics machinery manufacturers, including Arburg, Battenfeld, Billion, BMB, Demag Ergotech, Engel, Ferromatik Milacron, Italtech, Krauss-Maffei, Maicopresse, MIR, Netstal, Stork, Van Dorn Demag and UBE.
MMS 1.0 also supports metal diecasting machines from many leading equipment manufacturers, including Buhler, Frech, HPM, IdraPrince, Italpresse, Toshiba and UBE among others.
MMS 1.0 is available with English and French local language support and runs under the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system.
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