Sumitomo (SHI) Demag will be demonstrating its newest IntElect - the S series all-electric machine at Fakuma 2018.
The company believes with its upgraded motor design and a package of added features, the machine fills an important gap for the thin-wall packaging segment, described by the company’s UK MD Nigel Flowers as the twilight zone.
Available with clamping forces between 500 kN and 1,800 kN and with injection speeds between 350 and 500 mm/s, the machine has been specially built for extremely narrow tolerance applications requiring fast cycle times between 3 and 10 seconds.
Energy usage is lowered to 0.32kWh per kg, depending on production parameters.
These savings can primarily be attributed to the new 400v motor design, which has no transformer, is shorter and features new types of spindle.
Sumitomo (SHI) Demag
S stands for speed on the new IntElect, which has been designed for high volume packaging applications.
With a mould open time of 0.9 seconds, and a total cycle time of 4.65 seconds, the S model outperforms previous generations of IntElect machines for mould movements, injection and metering speeds and ejector movements, with an average reduction of between 0.5 and 1 second cycle time.
“Typically there’s almost no latency with a fast cycling machine and so the opportunities to reduce energy has until now been more difficult to achieve, especially on hybrid machines used predominantly in mass-manufacturing of packaging,” said Flowers.
This performance capacity on a thin-wall packaging application will be demonstrated at Fakuma 2018, with Sepro Robotique showcasing an IntElect S 180/ 560-700 running with a SDR Speed 7 robot and parallel to the launch of the IntElect S, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag will also introduce their new “SDR Speed” robot series.
