Press–to–press transfer
Pick the machine it runs on and the machine it’s going to. Get back the shot size, transfer position, pressures and speed to set on the second press, with the checks that say whether the job fits at all.
Moving a job to another machine and copying the settings across does not move the process. The polymer never sees your settings. It sees a volume, a pressure and a rate of flow — and every one of those numbers means something different on the press you are moving to. MoldMove works in the terms the plastic understands, then tells you what to set.
Set up your plant, enter your presses and materials once, and the transfer sheet, the hot runner setup and the studies come with it. Your machine list, your molds and your process data are yours — stored against your plant and visible to nobody else’s.
Three things change the moment the mold lands in a different machine, and none of them are visible on the control screen.
One sheet holds the part, the material, the mold and the process. Everything else reads from it, so nothing gets typed twice and nothing drifts out of step.
Pick the machine it runs on and the machine it’s going to. Get back the shot size, transfer position, pressures and speed to set on the second press, with the checks that say whether the job fits at all.
Build the plant’s machine list from your own nameplates and it stays there. Every press in the shop, every screw, in whatever units that control happens to read.
Gate seal, viscosity curve, cavity balance, pressure drop. Run them, save them against the mold number, and they are still there the next time the tool comes out of the rack.
Velocity linearity, pressure repeatability, response under load — saved against the machine, not the mold, because that is what they describe.
Manifold and drop zones, valve gate timing, and the cavity pressure sensors that tell you whether the far end of the part actually packed.
Print the old process and the new one side by side, and print any study with a place to sign it. Inches or millimeters, psi or bar, whichever the shop works in.
Manufacturers list screw diameter, shot capacity, clamp force and injection rate. The intensification ratio is not on any spec sheet. It comes off the nameplate on the machine, which means a library of these can only be built by people standing in front of presses — never downloaded, never scraped.
That is the point of entering your machines. What you build is a description of your own plant, and it stays your own — private to your account, and never shown to anyone else.
MoldMove is in build. If you set process for a living and you move molds between machines, leave an address and I’ll get in touch as the first release opens up — and I’d rather hear what you need out of it before it is finished than after.