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Photos
 | Horizontal servo injection head was fabricated from a clear material so that fluid flow dynamics of silicones and other materials could be optimized quickly beyond theory and speculation. |
| Automated inline molding machine being procured that has multiple inline heating platens and multiple chilling platen stations to break out the cure time for greater productivity with the chilling used for the advantage of part removal and manipulation benefits. (finished machine not shown due to confidentiality). |  |
 | RFID controls (radio frequency identification) allows instant mold changeout so that machine automatically sets up new mold recipe parameters on the fly by reading a unique tag label on a unique mold. |
| Simple finger touch operator touchscreen display with lockouts allows auto-tuning. |  |
 | The inline fully automated molding machine under procurement was customized for a client with a docking bay within the machine frame for a moveable chiller for easy access and maintenance. (finished machine not shown due to confidentiality). |
| Custom automated LIM machine with clean and simple readily available controls with plenty of expansion capability built in upfront. |  |
 | Custom automated LIM machine showing commercially used Allen Bradley PLC (programmable logic controller) in NEMA electrical enclosure. |
| Typical molding parameter recipe set up screen. |  |
 | Proprietary robotic mold processing cell was customized for a clients specific needs. Parts are offloaded by robot from molding machine and placed to a rotary indexing turntable that punches filters and loads them and dispenses reagents for a diagnostic test kit. |
| Beside the molding press custom automated parts processing cell that assembles and packages product. Inline ink jet printing was incorporated. |  |
 | Part handling pick & place which is part of an automated system next to a molding machine for automated handling. |
| Custom designed and built taping module station which is integrated into a machine next to a molding machine. |  |
 | Taping automatically wraps tape, cuts end and folds end of excess tape back over itself to form a pull tab all done automatically. |
| This custom designed and built mold sprue degating system sits next to a molding machine and automatically receives a complete molded fingernail mold sprue array from a molding pick and place which is placed into a special vacuum hold tooling shown in picture. The laser trims the sprue and runners off and cuts the nail gates within .005 of an inch on every nail. Individual nails are automatically placed into separate totes as is the sprue and runners. A complete nail mold sprue is received, held, laser trimmed and offloaded into separate totes every 7 seconds. A multitude of different nail mold sprue arrays can be processed without tooling change. |  |
 | Vertical servo injection head with transducer for monitoring and confirming process parameters have been met. |
| Very small offering of sample parts molded and yes the two little parts that look like specks with little pointed arrows were molded as one cavity with no venting. |  |
 | Built in chiller with built in drip pan with stop cock for draining so that no accidental leakage can occur onto clean room floor. |
| Class 100 clean room ready LIM designed for implants with electro static discharge protection built into machine. |  |
 | Lower costing pneumatically driven horizontal injection head with micrometer for hard stop shot size adjustment. |
| Touchscreen with molding process underway. |  |
 | Horizontal LIM with built in chiller. |
| Customer finished electrical panel with commercial A/B PLC. |  |
 | Minature LIM at pre-factory acceptance. |
| Minature LIM mold load area. |  |
 | LED (light emitting diode) component first run prototype used for traffic lights. |
| Class 100 clean room for implantable parts LIM that just finished OQ, IQ and PQ. (operational qualification, instrument qualification and process qualification). |  |
 | Allen Bradley touchscreen integrated with a Fluid Automation touchscreen controls. |
| Fluid Automation static mixer integrated onto LIM injection carriage. |  |
 | Customized miniature LIM at install. |
| Horizontal injection LIM with Graco static mixer integrated at client during validation. |  |
 | Minature custom LIM injection head. |
| Conferring with a client that has many static mix systems that had us prototype a new static mix system to meet their needs and requirements beyond what was available. |  |
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