Plastics Technology
The Right System Solution for Every Area
SIGMATEK has 35 years of experience in the automation of plastics processing. We offer the right system solution for all areas of plastics processing. From extrusion and blow molding to injection molding, you’ll always find the right hardware and software with us. Our industry expertise also encompasses downstream machines, handling tasks, finishing processes, and peripheral devices. This allows such processes to be controlled directly by the machine controller or synchronized with one another via real-time Ethernet standards such as VARAN.
Your Advantages
- High-performance and modular complete automation system with long-term availability of the components
- Customer-specific hard and software adaptation possible
- Servo drive technology and Safety seamlessly integrated
- Engineering comfort and reduced time-to-market cycles via object orientation and a broad selection of predefined software function modules
- Support from our extensive engineering team with deep injection molding and extrusion know-how
Your Benefits
The LASAL engineering tool offers tested software and technology modules that form the basis for customizing the application software to meet specific customer needs. Technology modules include, among others, hydraulic controllers, self-optimizing temperature controllers, online data loggers, SPC, BDE, energy monitoring, and Euromap interfaces. Language selection, unit conversion, alarm logging, and password levels are just a few of the features offered by the LASAL automation software.
Having the right hardware for every application is essential for implementing cost-effective solutions for every requirement in the plastics processing industry. In addition to standard hardware, SIGMATEK offers specialized modules for the plastics industry: from customized operator panels to process-optimized I/O modules—such as those for temperature measurement with signal preprocessing—modules for connecting potentiometers and ultrasonic displacement measurement systems, or modules for energy measurement.
Our industry experts select the optimal hardware components for your specific application and customize them to your needs, ensuring you receive a tailor-made and cost-effective complete solution—whether for:
- Hydraulic, hybrid, or all-electric injection molding machines (vertical and horizontal)
- Blow molding machines
- Single- and twin-screw extruders or
- Complex multi-component systems
Handling devices and robots can be fully integrated into the control platform. This increases productivity, since, for example, ejectors and robots move in precise synchronization with one another.
Single- and multi-CPU solutions are possible and can be connected to each other in a clock-synchronized manner via fieldbus standards such as VARAN. This makes a decentralized system architecture simple and flexible.