Whether you are recycling plastic goods or processing virgin materials, producing a product free from metal contaminants is more important today than ever. Trends to thinner walls, tinier hot-runner nozzles, and more costly and sophisticated machinery and tooling mean that even the smallest piece of tramp metal can cause expensive problems.
If you want to get the most out of your plant, you need to concentrate on preventing problems, not fixing them once they've occurred. That's the basic concept of "pre-emptive process control," which is the aim of software and hardware options recently introduced for the Source 1.3 CIM system from Hunkar Laboratories Inc., Cincinnati.
