Industry 4.0 monitoring and control for injection moulding

Under the designation "Advanced Solutions 4.0", SISE continues developing solutions for process data acquisition and monitoring to support injection moulders. The objective is to develop tools that enable improved product quality, reduced production costs and increased operational efficiency. To this end, it is essential to have reliable and precise access to process data such as press parameters (injection pressure, screw position, injection phase, clamping force etc.) and mould parameters (cavity pressures and temperatures, conditioning circuit temperatures and flow rates, actual hot runner temperatures etc.).

At the K 2025 trade fair, the company presents various solutions developed with Industry 4.0 principles, including for the first time the Smart Mould Box (SMB), a control unit mounted on the mould that monitors it throughout its operational lifetime as well as the parts produced, acquiring various injection parameters to predict quality and ensure traceability. Sidaq (Sise Data Acquisition) is a unit that replaces the previous Easy'PSP and PSP'Expert versions. Its functions include real-time monitoring of various injection parameters relating to mould and press and associated indicators to predict part quality and ensure traceability, as well as pressure sensors during maintenance operations. The Synaps module of the Cyclades MES production supervision software enables recovery of all data from various communication protocols (OPC-UA, OPC-DA, MQTT, Modbus, SQL queries, CSV format, XML, JSON, etc.) and from different sources (presses, peripherals, scales, robots, databases, files etc.).

Among the products Sise is presenting at the German trade fair is also the new GC'Timer control unit for sequential injection control. It controls up to 12 nozzles, allowing up to two openings/closures per nozzle. Equipped with a simple and intuitive touchscreen, programming file storage is virtually unlimited, as is cycle counting. This new system enables acquisition speeds and response times in the order of milliseconds. Control of hydraulic or pneumatic shut-offs can be programmed by combining available signals, such as injection start and hold pressure start signals. The control unit also allows individual testing of shut-off opening and closing in manual mode, to verify correct electrical wiring and operational status. The GC'Timer control unit represents an economical alternative to current high-end GC'Access and GC'Tech control units or for machinery retrofit and can be supplied with a range of optional accessories such as the hydraulic control unit and pneumatic or hydraulic solenoid valves.