The products on this page were specially developed for plastics industry applications, such as:
- Extruders (resin pressure & temperature control)
- Injection molding (mold temperature verification & control)
- Hot runners (temperature control of many controlled heating zones)
Dedicated sensors for resin pressure & temperature
Resin temperature sensors
The T-270Z series resin temperature thermocouples are specially designed for high accuracy resin temperature measurement in extruders.
- suitable for high accuracy measurement of resin temperature in extruders
- zero heat flow measurement method eliminates thermal disturbance and temperature error between tip and case. This enables a more precise resin temperature measurement
Resin pressure & temperature sensors
The CZ100P & CZ200P series resin pressure & temperature transducers are specifically developed for extruder applications.
- CZ-100P: resin pressure only transducer
- CZ-200P: resin pressure & temperature transducer
Dedicated sensors for mold temperature
The temperature of the mold must be monitored to verify if it has the correct process-temperature. Sometimes the available measurement space is very small. RKC developed the ST-50/ST-51 ultra-compact film-type temperature sensors that can be easily attached to the mold with the STM-A magnetic holder.
- suitable for accurate measurement of mold temperature
- sensor type: type K thermocouple
- temperature range:
- ST-50: 0°C to +300°C
- ST-51: -40°C to +300°C
Handheld thermometers for resin temperature verification
Discharged resin temperature check
The temperature of the discharged melted resin can be checked. This can lead to quality improvement of the process.
DP350
Standard handheld thermometers
– Brochure DP350
– Brochure temperature sensors for DP350 / DP700
– Instruction manual DP350
DP700
Advanced series of handheld thermometers
– Brochure DP700 series
– Brochure temperature sensors for DP350 / DP700
– Instruction manual DP700 series
Dedicated fast and accurate resin pressure & temperature controllers
Resin pressure & temperature controller
The HA930 is specificatlly developed for accurate control of resin pressure in extruders
- accurate resin pressure control in combination with the specifically for this purpose developed CZ-200P resin-pressure & temperature transducer
- 2 channel control, control both temperature & pressure with 1 controller
- fast & accurate control with 40 PID calculations per second
Extensive range of process & temperature controllers
Controllers for any kind of application:
- RB series (4 PID calculations per second), comes in all standard sizes
- FZ series (20 PID calculations per second)
- pressure control
- fast (cascaded) process control
- GZ series (100 PID calculations per second)
- for ultra-fast responding processes
- fast (cascaded) process control
- MA900/901 series multizone panelmount controller
- 2 PID calculations per second
- 4 and 8 channel channel version available
- SRZ series multizone DIN-rail mount controller
- 4 PID calculations per second
- support for all standard fieldbus types
- 2 and 4 channel versions available
Power electronics for driving any kind of electrical heating element
RKC Instrument power electronics
- very high unsurpassed Japanese quality
- extreme reliability
- current range: 10-200A
- 1, 2 or 3 phase loads
- load voltage range: 35-480Vac
- resistive loads (resistance not dependent on temperature)
- inductive loads (i.e. primary side of transformer)
- molybdenum (MoSi2) elements (i.e. Kanthal super)
- silicon carbide (SiC) elements
CD Automation power electronics
- flexible modular system with many options so you only need to order the options you need
- current range 10-2100A
- 1, 2 or 3 phase loads
- load voltage up to 690Vac
- resistive loads (resistance not dependent on temperature)
- inductive loads (i.e. primary side of transformer)
- infrared (IR) long- medium and short wave lamps
- molybdenum (MoSi2) elements (i.e. Kanthal super)
- silicon carbide (SiC) elements
- UV lamps
Hot runner heating systems
CasCade delivers fully integrated hotrunner controllers with integrated power electronics for ultra stable temperature control in hot-runners.
- 1, 2, 4, 8 & 24 temperature control zone versions
- highest temperature stability on hot-runner nozzles & manifolds to the mold
- accurate & reliable RKC Instrument temperature controllers
- robust Harting HAN connector
- thermocouple: type J (other types on request)
- temperature range: 0°C to +450°C
- 10A (2kW) per heating zone (continously)
- power supply: 3 phase 400Vac 50/60Hz
- standard cable length: 3m (other lenghts on request)
- optional: Pro-face HMI/SCADA touchscreen with modular SRZ DIN-rail mount controllers (remotely operable with smartphone/tablet/windows PC)
Pro-face HMI/SCADA/PLC touchpanels for integrated management of extrusion lines
CasCade delivers HMI/SCADA/PLC solutions using reliable and rugged Japanese Pro-face touchpanels
- HMI/SCADA/PLC integrated into 1 touchpanel
- easy and fast to program with GP-Pro Ex software tool
- fully functional ladder logic & scripting PLC inside touchpanel
- support for many fieldbuses:
- CANopen
- ModBUS RTU (RS-485)/TCP (Ethernet)
- CC-Link (Mitsubishi Melsec)
- DeviceNET
- Profibus DP (Siemens SIMATIC S7)
- ODVA (Rockwell Allen Bradley, Omron SYSMAC, Hitachi, Yokogawa)
- Mechatrolink (Yaskawa)
- Azbil (Yamatake)
- Cognex (vision systems)
- standard features in development software:
- recipe management
- alarm handling
- trending/datalogging
- multilanguage support
- CSV data transfer
- easy USB connected IO (plug&play):
- light pole (red/yellow/green)
- multicolor illuminated pushbuttons
- keypad
- fingerprint verification
- extra IO interface
- modular version that can be installed in 22mm standard panel mounting hole (no square hole cutting necessary for retrofit)
- remotely operable with smartphone/tablet/windows PC)
Modular installation in standard 22mm panel mount hole. Easy install during retrofitting/upgrading: no cutting of square panel mount hole necessary.
