Hylectric Machines

High performance solutions

Benefits The Husky Hylectric® machine is designed Hylectric machines have a variety of stan-
Higher productivity with the needs of our customers’ molding dard configurations of clamp and injection
• Faster clamp operations in mind. Available from 120 to modules that can be combined to design
• Improved plasticizing 1000 tonnes (130 to 1100 tons), Hylectric the ideal solution for a variety of markets
• Wider tiebar spacing
machines are designed for maximum including:
• Ideal platform for stack
output and low operating costs. Since its • Medical
molding
launch in 1999, the platform has undergone • Caps and closures
Longer mold life
• Excellent mold alignment extensive improvements to provide higher • Thinwall packaging
• Lower tonnage requirements output, greater reliability, reduced mainte- • Cosmetics/personal care
• Industry-best mold protection nance and improved uptime. • Industrial containers/pails
Better part quality
• Precise shot-to-shot accuracy
• Microsecond CPU scan rates
• Grease-free molding area
Operator friendly
• Windows*-based controls
• Integrated HMI for third party equip-
ment
• Large molding area for easy access
 High productivity and longer mold life

Clamping force is directed to the molding area The Hylectric machine consistently delivers cycle times that are 15–30% faster than competitive
by the center clamp column and then redistrib- machines in mold tests. Wide tiebar spacing combined with Reflex platens offer better tonnage utili-
uted evenly across the entire mold face by Reflex zation and often allow molders to select a smaller clamp size.
platens.

Higher performance, Longer mold life • Enhanced shutter cylinder design enables
lower operating costs Most molders have more invested in overlapping of clamp lock and clamp up
In today’s globally competitive business tooling than in machinery. The Hylectric motions to reduce dry cycle
environment, solutions targeting low- machine was designed to extend regular • Placing the clamp beams outside the
est part cost are essential. The Hylectric maintenance intervals and prolong the life tiebars increases clamp stiffness, improv-
machine maximizes the output of molds of molds. ing support for heavy molds and reducing
and improves operating costs. • Reflex® platens distribute clamping forces mold wear
evenly across mold mounting surfaces,
Hylectric machines provide: which can reduce tonnage required by Improved part quality and efficiency
• Higher output up to 50% Overall productivity is not only influenced
• Ease of use • Mold protection sensing occurs under by speed and cavitation. Yields are also
• Clean operation mold stroke force at only 2% of full increased with better part quality, which
• Greater reliability tonnage can be achieved through machine design
• Reduced maintenance • Clamp design delivers true closed and performance.
• Improved uptime loop tonnage control to minimize cycle
variations, over-tonnage or flash during
start-up

2 Hylectric Machines
A HL500 RS115/100 with stack mold carrier.

Better control This provides the best of both worlds: improvement. The goal of the assessment
• Microsecond scan rates on CPU, high • For high performance applications, ap- is to analyze existing operations, establish
performance servo valves and true closed proximately half of a machine’s energy current factory efficiency, then quantify
loop control for improved shot-to-shot consumption goes into the plasticizing of opportunities for improvement
repeatability resin
• With an electric drive for plasticizing and
Cleaner molding area the use of accumulators, the size of the
• Moving platen rides on sealed bearings hydraulic powerpack is reduced signifi-
rather than on tiebars, eliminating grease cantly. Since not all machine motions are
in the molding area simultaneous, power from the hydraulic
• Increased tiebar spacing and wide stance powerpack is shared among all axes, while
platen support, reduces part contact with all-electric machines require individual
the machine motors for each axis
• Husky Services helps customers achieve
Reduce energy cost—without sacrificing maximum Overall Equipment Effective-
performance ness (OEE) by improving operating
The Hylectric machine combines the effi- efficiency and conserving energy. Husky
ciency of an electric screw drive with the conducts a detailed plant and operational
speed and pressure of hydraulic injection assessment to identify opportunities for

Hylectric Machines 3
Standard features
Clamp
• Reflex platens
• Wide tiebar spacing
• Closed loop mold protection and clamp force control
• Regenerative mold stroke hydraulics for energy efficiency and high speed operation
• Large gates provide easy access to mold area for part removal

Injection
• Closed loop control of injection speed, hold pressure, back pressure and fill pressure
• Wear protected screw (Colmonoy* 56) and bi-metallic barrel
• Electric extruder drive (up to RS 135)
• Accumulator assisted hydraulic system and injection
• Mineral insulated heater bands

Operator friendly controls

• Polaris® Control—Intel* processor with Windows operating system
• User-programmable functions—corepull, robots and access levels etc.—Microsecond CPU
scan rates
• Remote diagnostics and troubleshooting capability
• Flat panel color operator interface with touchscreen controls
• 20 000 machine event log and report generation

Hydraulics
• Independent servo valve control of clamp tonnage, mold stroke and injection
• High efficiency, water-cooled pump motor
• Noise reducing, fully enclosed power pack
• High flow bypass oil filtration (3 micron) with pressure drop monitoring
• Centralized oil collection and recovery system

Contact Husky today for more information on Hylectric machines.

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