Integrated RFID Achieves Hot Half Hot Runner System Digitalization

 

Data management of existing molds has always been an important aspect when considering the maintenance, repairs and ordering of spare parts. Hasco hot runner announces that it is now bringing radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to hot runner systems. With the launch of the Mould Tag A5910, an in-house-adapted variant of the company’s original Mould Tag, all newly ordered hot halves and wired systems will now come integrated with this RFID technology feature, enabling an updated and clear display of all relevant data for the hot runner system directly on a smartphone.

The novel Mould Tag is provided with an RFID chip to enable the easy and reliable digitalization of original Hasco standard mold units in injection molding tools. Whereas bar codes or QR codes can be easily copied, the Mould Tag is reported to offer unambiguous identification with forgery-proof certification of origin.

As with the original Hasco Mould Tag, which allows direct access to all relevant product information — order reference, product category, product type, material number or maximum mold size in order to ensure correct installation of the mold units — the stored data can also always be kept up to date with hot runner systems. This means that should changes come about through reconstruction, they are directly adjusted in the system and are thus available in an updated version without any need for the customer to intervene. This excludes any possibility of confusion after buying replacements for worn parts.

The Mould Tag app not only contains part lists or specifications of the systems, Hasco notes. It’s also possible to download or dispatch assembly drawings in a PDF format or 3D constructions of the entire system. An expansion of the Mould Tag as with a USB storage medium, for example, is not necessary. 

To use the RFID technology on newly ordered hot halves, customers can download the Hasco app, click “NFC Scan” and moves the NFC-capable end device close to the Mould Tag; from there, all data about the hot runner system can be called up directly.