Mold-Masters M2 - 5.1 Stages included in Setting up a Console; 5.1.1 Create a first tool; 5.1.2 Set up Tool parameters; 5.1.3 Configure System Settings

SETUP
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5.1 Stages included in Setting up a Console
5.1.1 Create a rst tool
This starts at the Tool Page where a [Detect] command interrogates
the cabinet to see what various cards are available and then puts that
information into the Setup page.
5.1.2 Set up Tool parameters
Once the card information has been written into the Setup page you
then need to look at the displayed cards and allocate a duty to those
cards.
It may be that your cabinet is tted throughout with four-zone 15 Amp
cards, but it takes local knowledge to know which zones are nozzles,
which are manifolds or bridges and which are sprue bushes. A screen
that simply reads zones 1-60 is not as instructive as one that reads
nozzles 1-40, manifolds 1-8 etc. Setting your zones to reect the tool not
only makes it easier to use but it will also pre-program control-card char-
acteristics so they are more likely to match the heat load. Even though
automatic rst time start can do this for you it helps if the cards have
some idea of their duty before they are rst used.
Once card duty has been allocated then the various tool parameters
will take up default values – these may be ne for your general use,
but there are many tool parameters (such as warning and alarm levels)
which you may wish to ne tune to your particular tool. You should also
note that they are all congured on a zone-by-zone basis which can al-
low you to make precise settings.
Note also, all the values on the Setup page are stored with the tool
setting which is currently selected on the tool page. If you go to the tool
page and load a new tool for a different purpose then the new tool may
well bring its different setting into this page.
5.1.3 Congure System Settings
The [Cong] button opens more settings such as startup and boost
and tool parameters such as alarms and limits, which are all cong-
ured on the Setup page.
5.1.4 Set up Operating Parameters
Once you have all the above set to your particular system you nally
need to go back to the main Display Page and set your main operat-
ing temperatures and other values required for any monitoring zones
that you may have in your console for steel temperature, water ow,
coolant temperature or other ancillary facilities.