NPE Booth W4243
Mod24 Fast Heat’s plug-and-play modular hot-runner controller offers six zones of control within compact 24-zone cabinets, up to 192 zones with a single HMI, called Pulse, from the company. The display can be cabinet-mounted in multiple configurations, remote-mounted or integrated with a molding machine controller. The controller is Industry 4.0 enabled with OPC-UA, Modbus TCP/IP and four-channel I/O protocols, as well as micro-USB recipe transfer functionality.
What’s new? The controller.
Benefits Flexibility with the ability to expand the system to accommodate molders’ needs, as well as suitability for integration with an injection molding machine and other auxiliary equipment. The ability to integrate all the systems is energy-efficient and makes tool recipe setup easy and fast; the technology is especially appropriate for applications with tight processing windows.
Fast Heat by Spark Industries, Elkhart, Ind., 574-606-4243, www.fastheatbyspark.com
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.