PECS - Control system for plastic extruders

Customer	MITSUBISHI Electric Europe, Techne Spa, INEA d.o.o.
Duration	1996 - 2002
Objectives	Complete automatic control of the operation of plastic extruders, particularly blow-moulding machines.
Description	self-tuning and adaptive temperature control of heating zones parison control hydraulic positioning sequential control man-machine interface
Innovation	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
Benefits	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.
Info	janko.petrovcic@ijs.si