Manufacture 4.0 with LabVIEW and Arduino Mega for distributed cooling control of the DeMag 250 Ton machine injection mold

Abstract

Nowdays the injection plastics processes at insdustrial level have had a great development in the bajio region with the arrival of new enterprise suppliers of the automotive industry that work particuary de injection molding. The plastics injection molding is a semicontinuous process that consists of inject a polymer in the molten state into a mold closed under pressure, throught a small hole called gate, in the mole the material is solidifies, the piece or final part is obtained when the mold is opened and remove the piece molding from the cavity [1]. To monitor and control the temperature changes in the plastics injection cicles permite reduce errors and costs in the process. In this project we propose to apply manufacture 4.0 using the Arduino Mega microcontroller and LabVIEW to monitor part of the process of the injection molding of the DeMag 250 Ton Machine, specifically the coolding system adapting to control the injection molde temperature. The preliminare results show that is apropiate to use the LabVIEW an Arduino Mega combination to generation of innovation project applied to the plastic industry.