ENGEL supports its customers in the maintenance of injection molding machines and linear robots with six configurable maintenance packages. Processing firms benefit from the ENGEL service engineers' ...

High-mix, low-volume (HMLV) manufacturing has seen significant growth in recent years as lower margins, increased demand for customization, and supply chain uncertainty have altered day-to-day ...

With the Injection Molding Machine Interface (IMMI), the collaborative robots leader has launched a user-friendly and quick solution for plastics manufacturers to integrate Universal Robots with ...

To mimic the dexterity of human hands, robot grippers have undergone significant advancements to pick and place a variety of products ever more deftly. Many of these advances were based on giving ...

Injection molding is a critical manufacturing process, and has been so for a long time. It still has room to improve in several areas however, and “smart” injection molding equipment is gaining ...

Designed for top loading/unloading injection-molding machines, the KS Series of shelf-mounted 6-axis robots has a low profile for platen-mounted robots, which reduces required ceiling heights for ...

Complex, .81-oz PBT electrical connectors were run on the prototype Van Dorn IntElect DD direct-drive all-electric. Big or small, simple or complex, the machines that came to Chicago in June offered ...

The criteria for selecting a Liquid Silicone Rubber injection molding machine are very similar to selecting a machine for standard thermoplastic injection molding, with some key differences. Let’s ...

An injection molding plant is a type of material-processing plant. Injection molding plants may serve as secondary processors that take raw plastic and form it to create parts for other end ...