For Sale - PCM - 3460 - All Electric Injection Moulding Machine

Ferromatik offers all electric toggle machine ranging from 50 to 330 ton.
Main Features:
- Fast and precise moulding
- Clean and quiet operation
- Energy efficient production
- Environment friendly

All axes movements by servo motors results in
- Precise moulding of complex articles
- Parallel movements of all axes - shorter cycle time
- Energy saving
- Quiet and clean operation

Machines widely used in
- Medical
- Electrical and electronics
- Clean room application
- Automotive
- Irrigation components
- Packaging
- Writing instruments

Elektron Design, Advantages and Features:
1) Clamp:
- Robust double toggle clamp mechanism
- Clamp movement via ball screw and synchronous belt drive
- Quick automatic mould height & tonnage setting on screen
- Adjustable pressure setting of closing and opening stage
- Proportional speed control with 5 closing and 5 opening speed
- Adjustable 2 stage mould safety speed and pressure
- Position based ramping for accurate position switching and precise speed and pressure control
- Sensitive mould protection with try again circuit
- Stage wise actual time display
- Insert moulding program
- Automatic grease lubrication
- Actual tonnage display on screen

2) Ejector:
- Central ejector via ball screw and synchronous belt drive
- 2 stage programmable ejector forward profile with soft eject
- Ejector speed and force adjustable on screen
- Pulsating ejector strokes up to 9 pulses
- Intermediate retract set point
- Ejector stay forward and forward dwell timer

3) Injection:
- Injection movement via ball screw and synchronous belt drive
- 6 stage injection velocity and 15 stage injection pressure profile
- 5 stage screw speed and 5 stage back pressure through screen
- Digital setting of extruder rpm and digital read out of actual rpm
- Wide choice of injection units with A-B-C screw / barrel combinations
- Switch over from fill to pack based on position / time / pressure
- Auto heat startup and shutdown
- Injection decompression before / after refilling or both
- Semi-auto purge and intrusion moulding programs
- Aluminum chequered plate below purge area
- Sprue break with timer

4) Temperature control:
- Actual current display of heating zones
- Heater failure and thermocouple failure detection
- Accurate PID temperature control settable on screen
- Feed throat temperature indication
- Heat standby after set number of cycles
- Soak timer for cold start protection
- High/low temperature alarm
- Set and actual temperature data with bar graph

5) Controls:
- 22 parameter monitoring for last 150 cycles with graphics
- 10.4" ft color display with alpha - numeric keypad
- Actual injection speed and pressure graph display with indication of high, low and average value
- 80 mould data storage
- Configurable multilevel password with operator's name
- Customized setup menu
- High / low limit display for each adjustable parameter
- Timer precision in 0.01 second
- Change log menu: logs last 100 set points changes with time & date
- Individual keys for manual functions with process mode
- Note pad and maintenance scheduling
- Freely programmable smart outputs
- Over view screen with graphical display of machine functions
- Soft keys for fast access of select menus
- 1000 alarm history with date and time log
- Printer interface with USB port
- Automatic machine shutdown in the event of a fault, deviation from tolerance band and shot counter expiry
- Process data and production data acquisition

6) Drive system:
- Closed loop control of all pressures, strokes and speeds
- Mould, ejector and injection movement via servo motors
- Hydraulic movement of injection unit
- "Ethernet" (powerlink) ultra fast connection between PLC and drives
- Parallel operation of mould movement, ejector and plasticizing

7) Mechanical:
- Euromap mould mounting pattern
- Moving platen support on machine frame by skates
- Part removal possible in three directions
- Electric cabinet designed as plug-in unit integrated in machine base
- Mounting provision for Euromap handling devices on fixed platen

8) Available options:
- Hydraulic / pneumatic core pull
- Hydraulic / electrical unscrewing interface
- SPI knockout bar for multipoint ejection
- Jam bar
- Bimetallic barrel / screw
- Shut off nozzle
- Insulated heater bands
- Special paint
- Feed throat temperature control
- Water battery with temperature indicator
- Good / defective part signal
- Part drop detect for single cavity
- Part drop chute
- Host computer interface
- Hot runner interface
- Robot interface
- Cavity pressure sensor interface

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