Smart Molding International 3-2022

19 machinery www.smart-molding.com tive 4-button SMART OPERATION con- trol system. This option enables users to achieve additional productivity gains through automation, standardization and shortening of recurring process steps in shift operation. Equally inter- esting for medical technology custom- ers is the regular calibration of injec- tion molding machines in accordance with ISO 17025. NETSTAL has been an accredited calibration laboratory since the end of 2021. The new service in- cludes the calibration of the machines at the customer's site. If required, also with comprehensive documentation for use in the audit. Exhibition premiere of the accelerated ELIOS 4500 The further developed ELIOS 4500 celebrates its trade show premiere. Due to the switch to an all-electric mold closing, the dry cycle could be accelerated by 0.1 seconds. Users benefit not only from increased pro- ductivity, but also from optimized en- ergy efficiency: in relation to the dry cycle, the average power consumption of the machine is reduced by 7kW. An- other bonus point is provided by the 450mm shorter machine length. At the NETSTAL booth, the ELIOS 4500 will produce thin-walled 150ml IML yogurt cups from a certified renewable PP from SABIC. The material is based on tall oil, a waste product from paper production. It has identical processing properties to conventional polypropyl- ene (PP) and can be returned to the resource cycle. One cup weighs just 6.5 grams. The 12-cavity mold, like the handling system, comes from IML So- lutions. The cycle time will be around 5 seconds. The in-mold labels from Verstraete will feature digital water- marks from the Holy Grail 2.0 initia- tive. Codes invisible to the human eye will be printed on the entire surface of the labels. These contain machine- readable information about the con- tents, packaging material and origin. Different types of plastic are separated by type and sent for recycling. Perfectly linked via OPC-UA interface As an OPC-UA Foundation Member, NETSTAL is pushing the development of the interface standard for plastics ma- chinery. OPC-UA enables the standard- ized, manufacturer-independent, and efficient data exchange of machines, devices and other systems in the in- dustrial environment. At the booth, NETSTAL will present the complete peripheral integration of a Manufac- turing Execution System from bfa so- lutions, temperature control units from HB-Therm and Gammaflux hot runner control units. In addition, NETSTAL will participate in the OPC-UA Showcase of the VDMA. All NETSTAL machines ex- hibited at K, including those on partner stands, will be integrated into the umati demonstrator. Visitors to the trade fair can use their smartphones to scan QR codes attached to participating ma- chines and systems and thus obtain information on the machine, status, the job in progress and process values in real time in the umati app. NETSTAL www.netstal.com/en All-electric ELION from NETSTAL delivers high performance with low energy consumption Pipette tips like these will be produced at the NETSTAL booth