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 ...

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' ...

KS Series robots are designed for top loading and unloading of injection molding machines. The series offers a low-profile design for platen-mounted robots that reduces ceiling height requirements on ...

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 ...

A new all-electric injection molding machine and accompanying AI-driven work cell from Engel reduces footprint on the production floor as well as energy consumption, while also doubling output. The ...

Engineered Plastic Components Inc., a Grinnell, Iowa-based injection molder, has purchased its second all-electric 3,300-ton injection molding machine. The machine, which was purchased for an ...

NUMAZU, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Machine Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:6104) announced that its EC-SXII series of all-electric injection molding machines, one of the best-selling products in Japan, will add ...

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany—Arburg GmbH and Co. KG is introducing a new multi-component injection molding machine series with larger mold dimensions and ejector strokes and greater distances between the ...