In 2024, at Techne, we developed an automated clamping force adjustment system, we called it CFA - Clamping Force Automation. Some customers often change mold & tooling and want to get back into production as quickly as possible without risk to people or property, hence the idea of CFA.

The inherent problem with changeover is that a whole series of adjustments are required, some mechanical ones performed physically by the operator and some totally automatic ones performed by the PLC, because the information is resident in the specific bottle recipe (temperatures, pressures, flow rates, times, etc.).
Clamping force adjustment is accomplished by a procedure of disassembly, adjustment, reassembly and testing performed by the operator.

The customer's request was precisely to remove this task from the operator by having the PLC handle this adjustment. The CFA developed by TECHNE is a totally automated and innovative system that allows the clamping force of a given bottle shape to be stored directly in the bottle shape recipe itself resident in the PLC.

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