Today's quality control in injection molding still relies heavily on samples of the finished product. The problem is that (partial) cooling circuit failures and their impact on the material may go unnoticed for a long time, leading to a potential loss of an entire batch. By measuring quality close to the actual fabrication step, errors can be caught early on in the process. Inline thermography verifies the quality of each and every part leaving the machine — and is significantly cheaper and more reliable than competing solutions, e.g., based on measuring the cooling water temperature.

Customers are free to select a sensor for optimal cost-value ratio: Simply monitoring the state of the cooling system can often be achieved by a cheap off-the-shelf IR camera. Larger parts or the desire to detect even small-scale defects may require the use of more expensive high-resolution IR cameras. Our solution allows for switching between a variety of imaging devices with the click of a button.