Like many prestigious trade fairs, Fakuma 2020 has been postponed to next year. Wittmann Battenfeld therefore decided to present its exhibits in the form of product videos, and post them on the ‘Fakuma-Virtual’ portal.
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Wittmann Battenfeld presents Fakuma highlights digitally
EcoPower Xpress 300/1100+
Presentation of the videos will take place primarily in personal meetings with customers, with web conferences also planned as an alternative. To present the product highlights as vividly as possible, the product videos will also be made available on the company’s YouTube channel.
Wittmann Battenfeld’s Ingrinder has created an innovative solution to promote the recycling economy. This product is an injection moulding system with integrated sprue picker, granulator and vacuum conveyor.
Wittmann Battenfeld presents this innovation on a machine from the servo-hydraulic SmartPower series, a SmartPower 60/210. On the machine, a can with a lid is produced from PS with a 2-2-cavity mould. A WP50 sprue picker from Wittmann with swivel drive removes the sprue and passes it to the G-Max granulator integrated in the system. The material recycled is then transported to the machine’s material hopper by a FEEDMAX S3 vacuum conveyor. The Wittmann vacuum conveyors enable alternating conveyance of virgin material and regrind, so that a thorough blend is created by this process, together with discharge of the material into the hopper.
Another highlight includes a machine from the EcoPower Xpress series – an all-electric, high-speed and high-performance machine model primarily of interest for thin-walled applications in the packaging industry.
Moreover, Wittmann Battenfeld will demonstrate its expertise in the field of medical technology with a machine from the MicroPower series conceived for the production of micro parts in a clean room.
The important Wittmann Battenfeld technology for LSR processing is also presented by producing a drink timer made of LSR on a machine from the servo-hydraulic SmartPower series, a SmartPower 120/350, with a 2-cavity mould supplied by Nexus, Austria.
All Wittmann Battenfeld machines can be connected to the MES solution TEMI+ from ICE-flex. TEMI+ is specifically designed and optimised for the needs of the plastics industry and provides advanced OEE calculations and data integration of moulding machines via Euromap 63 or 77.
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Wittmann Battenfeld presents Fakuma highlights digitally
Integrated TEMI+ MES, updated version
Although the front-end HMI has only undergone minor modifications from previous versions, the underlying framework technology is entirely new, enabling fast operator interaction and high stability. The updated Production Planner has changed significantly, enabling intuitive additions and shifting of production jobs via ‘drag & drop’, an extended planning of maintenance cycles and an easy-to-understand weekly job agenda.
