Ewatt Robot Equipment Co., Ltd., the robotic arm producer from Quanzhou City with brand name INLIF, on showed series of their robotic arms for injection molding at Chinaplas 2025 with no injection molding machine for application demonstration.

The robotic arms on show Chinaplas 2025 include high speed robotic arms for the thin-wall containers high speed injection production, the 3/5 axis servo injection robot for small size parts picking and placing. According to the robotic arms showed, it seems that the robotic arm producer established in 2016 will focus on the robotic arm solutions for injection molding machine with clamping force 50~500T and the thin-wall containers producers.

With more than 2000 robotic arms producers in China, the robotic arms for injection molding machine at the clamping force range from 50~550T is encounting severe price war in China, it seems an easy to enter market but not so easy for a new comer to survive with a low cost stratege. Anyway, with the join of INLIF in this market the producer of small and medium size plastic parts will have more opportunity for their low budget injection molding project.

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.