PlastImagen 2025, HMD, the Chinese injection molding machine manufacturer who is known for their high speed hydraulic injection molding machine in the thin-wall packages production, on showed their HMD 268M8-IIP with turn-key solutions of cups production and have the cups picked by Runma high speed robot.

Hwamda (HMD) is the injection molding machine manfuacturer founded in 1990 in NingBo city, the manufacturering base of injection molding machines of the world with big names like Haitian, Sumitomo Demag etc. and HMD268M8-IIP is one of their star high speed hydraulic injection molding machine suitable for the production of thin-wall containers like snack box, Yogurt cups etc.

The injection molding solution on showed PlastImagen 2025 is a two cavities cups injection molding solution with the cups picked by a Runma high speed robot. A more rewarding investment would be an IML system with HMD268M8 and SWITEK SW8 series high speed side entry IML Robot in production of small size IML Yogurt cups or lids. The total cycle time can be expected to be around 5.5s in production of 6 cavities of IML Yogurt Cups.

The distributing agent of HMD high speed injection molding machine is Tai-MEX, which is an injection machinery distriubting company with experience of of injection molding system integration and installation service for more than 10 years to provide a one stop purchasing and service of injection molding machinery.

To be the supplier of IML Yogurt cups for the dairy producers now in China is not an easy job, the strict standard of "Biotic Pollution Free" make it a basic requirement to have a system of IML cups production system which will have the vision control system and the packing system integrated. Only with an IML solution of this kind will ensure that the IML cups would be "Biotic pollution free" to ensure thee food safety.

8 Cavities Yogurt Cups Side EEntry IML Solutions with Vision Control and Packing

It sounds great right? Yes it's great to have the yogurt cups produced from IML to bag packing automatically with the bad parts rejected automatically. It's an economic solution with the increasing manhours globally for the bulk production of IML containers for dairy products. As an efficient production solution of IML containers, what should the IML containers producer keep in mind while planning such a project?

For an automation system of IML with vision control and packing, the key to note would be:

• The Expected Daily Output of the Containers: As a bulk production system, an IML system with vision control and packing is not suitable for samll orders. Each system would be suitable for one products only.
• The Mold Drawing: For an IML containers production system, a 3D drawing of the mold is essential for a successful IML project. It could be either .stp or x_t file.
• The Details of the Injection Molding Machine: An IML robot would be a custom made one according to the dimension of the injection molding machine and the layout drawing of the mold, the details of the injection molding machine would be very important to an IML project.
• The Checking Standard of the Cups: As a vision control system is a "self-study" system so while planning an IML project with vision control it's important to prepare samples of both "good" parts and "bad" parts for the system to "learn" which one to be packed and which one to be rejected.
• How Would You Want the Parts to be Packed: It's the key to design the packing system for the IML cups, you should discuss it with the dairy producer and provide the packed sample if possible.

The tips above are some basice notes for an IML system with vision control and packing, for more information about IML solutions please contact Adams from SWITEKE for a ready to work turn-key IML solutions.