Injection Molding

SAMControl coordinates automation elements

Dec. 15, 2022

Sumitomo (SHI) Demag’s device can connect multiple pieces of peripheral equipment from different manufacturers with a minimum of hardware/software integration.

Karen Hanna

A Sumitomo (SHI) Demag IntElect75 injection molding machine (IMM) with a SAM-C5 Cartesian robot — which will be available in the U.S. sometime in 2024 — manufactures components for a surge interrupter on a four-cavity tool during the K Show. Overseeing the entire cell is Sumitomo (SHI) Demag's SAMControl, the control device for the robot, IMM and peripheral equipment. It uses the same IMM and robotics hardware and software, so everything, even remote maintenance via the company's myConnect app, can be integrated.

SAMControl Sumitomo (SHI) Demag’s new control technology can help plastic parts makers coordinate the work of a wide variety of automation elements, including conveyor systems and marking technologies, in an injection molding machine production cell.

What's new? The SAMControl technology, introduced at the K Show.

Benefits The easy integration and coordination of multiple pieces of peripheral equipment from different manufacturers with a minimum of hardware/software integration. This allows adjustments to automation to be made flexibly and easily, regardless of robot type.

Sumitomo (SHI) Demag, Suwanee, Ga., 678-892-7900, https://sumitomo-shi-demag.us

About the Author

Karen Hanna | Senior Staff Reporter

Senior Staff Reporter Karen Hanna covers injection molding, molds and tooling, processors, workforce and other topics, and writes features including In Other Words and Problem Solved for Plastics Machinery & Manufacturing, Plastics Recycling and The Journal of Blow Molding. She has more than 15 years of experience in daily and magazine journalism.