PECS – The Control System for Extrusion Blow Moulding - Inea

PECS – The Control System
for Extrusion Blow Molding
The PECS control system for extrusion blow-moulding
machines is based on advanced but proven technology
and is easy to use. It enables flexible machine design
and quick start-up. The system makes possible to
design blow-moulding machines with unprecedented
precision, minimal material use and the fastest production cycle.
Due to the Mitsubishi advances in manufacturing technology and due to high production
volumes, the Mitsubishi PLC’s can meet or beat the price of many competitor systems.
The PECS control system allows highly flexible configuration of hardware and software
components. The PLC system is completely modular system, which could be optimized by
the machine designer to reach the optimal price/performance level.
The machine parameters and data are organized as recipes. Their use ensures fast and
efficient set-up of the new machine without excessive time consumption to configure and to
parameterize the control system “from the scratch”. On the other side, the product recipes
are used to help the end user to change the production in the shortest possible time.
The PECS control system can be used as a package for building new blow-moulding
machines or as well as for retrofit machines.
Advantages of the PECS control packages
The human-machine interface (HMI) screens are already prepared and SPAC20 coprocessor
modules are pre-programmed to execute the most demanding control algorithms. Everything
is linked together by the PLC software to make the machine running in the shortest possible
time. The user needs only to match the system to the specific configuration of the machine
and to make final adjustments. Of course, one may make greater redesigns if necessary.
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