Department of Systems and Control

MITSUBISHI Electric Europe, Techne Spa, INEA d.o.o.

1996 - 2002

Complete automatic control of the operation of plastic extruders, particularly blow-moulding machines.

• self-tuning and adaptive temperature control of heating zones
• parison control
• hydraulic positioning
• sequential control
• man-machine interface

• new approach to the self-tuning of the temperature controllers of heating zones
• cost-effective implementation using standard modular programmable controllers from the Mitsubishi Electric and the SPAC20 coprocessor module

Open control system, successfully used by a number of manufacturers of plastic extruders and blow-moulding machines, like Techne Spa, Italy, Picoplast GmbH, Germany, BBM GmbH, Germany.

janko.petrovcic@ijs.si