Chinaplas 2025, FANUC on show their all electric injection molding machines with turn-key solutions of injection molding in demonstration of the performance of their all electric injection molding machines.

The all electric injection molding machine on show Chinaplas 2025 is the ROBOSHOT series α-S150iB and α-S100iB. With a large touchscreen display with intuitive controls, enhanced CNC control system, and expanded storage capacity, the FANUC ROBOSHOT series injection molding machines are trusted by leaders in connector businesses, automotive manufacturing, electronics production, medical equipment supply and consumer goods manufacturings, it's an injection molding machine sets the standard for precision and performance.

As a demonstration of a turn-key injection molding solution, a PMC 3 axis servo robot was installed to the α-S100iB all electric injection molding machine for the picking of the parts. With the increasing of the labour cost globally, a high performance injection robot will help to reduce the labour cost and increase the productivity of the injection molding system.

For manay small and medium sized producer of IML containers it many not be easy to make a decision if to accept the order or not because of the small quantity at the beginning but a huge potential in the future. As the IML robot is a custom made system according to the mold design and the injection molding machine for this mold. But is there any possibility to have one IML robot for a couple of molds? The answer is yes.

High Speed Side Entry IML Robot

The SW8 series of side entry IML robot is one of which an ideal choice for the small and medium sized producer of IML containers. With exchangeable magazine and stacking unit, the IML robot enable the IML containers producers to produce the small and medium sized IML containers and IML lids by the injection molding machine and the IML robot with simply to have the magazine and EOAT replaced for the new mold. But with this IML robot, how will the IML containers produce to achieve the maximized productivity?

To maximized the productivity of the IML system, the key would be to have the injection molding machines and the IML robots well organized according to the products. To make the change the magazine and EOATs faster, we can have the containers with wraping labeling produced in one IML system and have the 3/5 face labeling containers and the lids produced by another IML system. It's not recommended to have the containers with wraping labeling to be produced by the same IML system with an IML lids, which will need to change both the Magazine and the stacking unit and the time to start the system up would be much longer.

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