Get Milacron M•Powered at NPE 2018: Milacron Launches IoT Suite of Services, Part of New Support and Services Offerings Across All Milacron Product Brands
CINCINNATI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Milacron Holdings Corp. (NYSE: MCRN), a leading industrial technology
company serving the plastics processing industry will detail their
strategy to become the plastic processing industry’s service leader at
NPE 2018, in West Hall, booth 2703, May 7th to May 11th.
Milacron will launch Milacron M•Powered, their comprehensive Internet of
Things (IoT) solution and highlight the wide variety of service,
support, and parts programs for their Milacron injection molding
machines, Mold-Masters hot runners, Uniloy blow molding machines,
Milacron extrusion systems and DME mold technologies.
Milacron CEO Tom Goeke stated, “The entire Milacron team is committed to
leading the service model transformation of the plastics processing
industry.” Goeke elaborated, “Service is at the very core of Milacron.
Milacron’s service and support offerings are as varied and robust as our
product offerings. With the industry’s largest stable of product brands
and technologies comes the responsibility to our valued customers to
provide second to none service and support. We have amped up our organic
aftermarket offering that includes parts, service, rebuilds, retrofit
and preventative maintenance services through to launching a
well-integrated IoT connectivity program under the Milacron M•Powered
brand. We’re taking the best of IoT and other connectivity enhancements
and integrating them into our product portfolio.”
In this 3rd NPE press
release, you’ll find a number of technologies and services that
highlight Milacron’s commitment to providing the industry’s most trusted
service, support, spare parts programs and IoT solution with the launch
of Milacron M•Powered.
Milacron M•Powered: Knowledge is Power
Milacron M•Powered is a portfolio of easy-to-use observational,
analytical and support services that gives our customers a competitive
advantage through insight. M•Powered provides unique intelligence on a
customer’s current operations and future needs, sharpens manufacturing
quality and productivity, and optimizes uptime.
Plastic parts: Making them better, faster and cost-effectively – That
simple statement is at the core of everything Milacron does. Where does
our IoT and connectivity offering play into all this? IoT optimizes our
service availability creating a technical link between our customers and
our technical experts. We use technology to be faster and always
available for our customers. We call this Milacron M•Powered.
M-Powered takes our entire suite of aftermarket services delivered by
ServTek to the next level of customer performance. M-Powered connects
parts, service, rebuilds, retrofit and preventative maintenance service
to our customers’ machines to provide a unified, stronger offering:
optimized uptime. ServTek delivers performance. Now, with M-Powered,
ServTek provides competitive advantage.
Currently, all injection molding machines that ship out of our US
facility are M•Powered enabled. Our M•Powered product currently includes
remote service capability, remote monitoring with OEE and downtime
analytics, and data collection with maintenance and parts recommendation
intelligence M•Powered also includes full API integration as a standard
setup in addition to applicable hardware such as our SmartMold and
Red/Green Boxes and dedicated network security.
Milacron M•Powered is based on “Big Data”, qualitative art, and
quantitative science and aims to continuously improve asset utilization
and production efficiency. The launch of Milacron M•Powered signifies
the amplification of the Milacron product line. The Milacron M•Powered
product will continue to advance and evolve and we are currently
scheduling releases later this year to include services such as the
M•Powered Fingerprint, M•Powered Solutions, and M•Powered Smart Glasses
for “see what I see” virtual technical assistance.
M-Powered makes our lifecycle parts and service offering – delivered by
ServTek, DME and Mold-Masters – optimized.
Milacron Injection Molding Machine Aftermarket
– Ensuring uptime, ALL the time
Milacron Injection Machinery Spare Part Promise – The right part,
right away
Milacron demonstrates our commitment to service and our recognition that
asset availability is vitally important to our customers through our
parts stocking logistics program. Most of the high consumption parts are
99% in stock with same day shipping availability; in fact, over the last
3 years we have achieved 95% fulfillment for same day shipping requests.
In total, we dedicate 3,500 SKUs worth over $50M USD to our aftermarket
customer’s needs. Milacron also has robust and proven capability for
Injection End Products (IEP) such as barrels, screws, and tips for ALL
plastics machinery – not just Milacron branded machinery, resulting in a
major advantage for our customers.
Milacron Injection Machinery Service Technicians – Trust your
Milacron machinery to a Milacron expert
Milacron has the most qualified service technicians across North America
with unmatched experience and knowledge. In the last 12 months, we’ve
hired 25 additional technicians and plan to hire an additional 30 in
2018 to ensure our customers get the service and support they need when
they need it. No other injection machine manufacturer can support a
North American customer in the fashion Milacron can provide.
Milacron Injection Machinery Retrofit and Rebuild – Breathing new
life into experienced machines
When a customer’s business needs change, their machines need to change
as well. Milacron offers a variety of retrofitting and rebuild options
for a customer’s current fleet of machines to adjust to different
outputs or a complete rebuild of older machines that still have life in
them. Milacron’s Technical Service team works with customers to review
requirements, evaluate processes, and offer upgrade and rebuilding ideas
to improve efficiency, increase productivity and uptime to help
customers achieve their output goals.
Mold-Masters Hot Runners – Unlocking the full
potential of a hot runner system with MasterCARE
Mold-Masters Preventative Maintenance Programs – Ensure hot runner
systems operate at peak performance with comprehensive preventative
maintenance programs
Mold-Masters MasterCARE® preventative maintenance plans are designed to
simplify hot runner maintenance, help eliminate breakdowns and control
costs. Mold-Masters MasterCARE® provides customers with a wide choice of
options to suit any type of operation to ensure the precise level and
frequency of service a customer’s operation requires. Mold-Masters
estimates that 1 hour of preventative maintenance can save up to 5 hours
of unscheduled downtime. All MasterCARE® Preventative Maintenance
programs include: Prescheduled service, experienced Mold-Masters
technicians and original Mold-Masters spare parts.
Mold-Masters Hot Runner System Refurbishments – A restored hot runner
system ensures a return to flawless part quality, reliability and is
more economical than purchasing a new system
Mold-Masters MasterCARE® refurbishment services return any hot runner
system to like new condition. Mold-Masters uses state of the art
cleaning processes and replaces worn and damaged components to ensure
the system returns to its original high output productivity, and
reliability. The MasterCARE® program offers recommendations to customers
on refurbishments or system checks, well before any potential breakdowns
that could risk overall production lines. This is all included with the
new MasterCARE® Preventative Maintenance program. Visit our booth
to find out all the details of the MasterCARE® hot runner refurbishment
product.
Milacron Extrusion Services – More service and
part options than any other manufacturer
Parts and service is our priority. Milacron is dedicated to customer
uptime, providing quick response and thorough evaluation to ensure long
lifecycle and optimized performance for all extrusion products. Milacron
have redesigned their parts distribution processes to have on hand
inventory of wear parts and critical parts with 24 hour shipment
availability to support customer needs. Milacron also offers over the
phone advisement, diagnosis, process development and parts
identification.
Milacron Extrusion Screws – Optimizing melt temperature control and
the processing window
Milacron designs and builds full extrusion systems in-house ensuring
complete control of precise equipment needs and the ability to create a
highly customizable approach for our customers: one that increases
productivity, output, and accuracy, while reducing costs. Milacron’s
robust screw and barrel offerings allow processors to experience
improved homogeneity, melt temperature control and an expanded
processing window via the utilization of optimized screw geometry.
Customized screw geometries for both single and counter-rotating
extruders can also improve the machine’s output over traditional
designs. The vast experience of our screw design team allows geometry
development for a wide range of compounds, resins and unique
applications. The Milacron Extrusion team will support all processors’
screw and barrel needs.
Milacron Extrusion Retrofit and Rebuild – Breathing new life into
customers’ older extrusion equipment
Milacron Extrusion offers the most robust retrofit and rebuild options
ensuring customers maximize the longevity of existing equipment.
Milacron is capable of replacing or refurbishing everything from the
gearbox to the end of the barrel, including such items as barrels,
heaters, feed screws, control retrofits, thermocouples, barrel discharge
clamps, control panel rewiring, drives, instruments, shrouds, and all
other miscellaneous items required for an extruder rebuilt to the
original design or enhanced with developed modern technologies.
Uniloy – A full range of parts, molds,
technical support and service packages to keep Uniloy blow molding
systems operating at peak performance
In addition to stocking the most commonly used Uniloy parts for
immediate shipment, Uniloy also has a number of services and support
programs for all blow molding customers. Worldwide, Uniloy has a base of
operations in the US, China, India and Europe with more than 30 highly
trained service technicians ready to be deployed.
Uniloy Blow Molds – One of the largest manufacturers of extrusion and
stretch blow molds with a broad range of complementary services and
technical assistance
Uniloy offers mold and container design, unit cavity testing, finished
part qualification testing manufacture of a broad array of blow molds
for reciprocating and shuttle extrusion as well as injection stretch
blow molds for both proprietary and non-proprietary technology
platforms. Additionally, Uniloy has full capability to repair and
refurbish molds to bring them up to ‘like new’ condition with enhanced
performance.
Uniloy Machine Retrofits and Rebuilds – Reconfiguring blow molding
machines with state of the art technology
Uniloy offers rebuilds and retrofits of a broad range of blow molding
machines, proprietary or otherwise, including injection blow, shuttle,
reciprocating screw blow and industrial molding machines to original
performance specifications or better! Uniloy’s experienced team of
engineers and service technicians offer a comprehensive list of
productivity improvement packages specifically designed to allow older
machines to operate at better cycle times, more efficiently and
safer. Uniloy routinely performs high quality, full scope rebuilds for
roughly 60% of what a new machine costs.
Uniloy Control Replacements – Upgrading machine controls,
improving user-experience and connectivity
Uniloy offers Allen Bradley Compact Logix, and B&R Control Packages
developed for our blow molding machines. These packages provide improved
machine sequence control as well as Ethernet connectivity. Each package
also includes a color touch screen operator interface with built-in
security access levels and alarms and diagnostics useful for
troubleshooting machine operation and processing issues.
The entire Milacron team is ready to welcome the world to NPE and show
our valued customers “what’s new”! Be sure to visit us May 7th
to May 11th in the West Hall, booth 2703 to learn about
Milacron’s unmatched service offerings.
Milacron continues to push the boundaries of possibilities in plastics
with breakthrough products from leading brands including Milacron®,
Mold-Masters®, DME®, Ferromatik®, Uniloy®, and CIMCOOL®. All Milacron
product brands offer industry-leading service, support, and spare parts
inventory – trust only Milacron trained experts to ensure your assets
run at peak performance.
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About Milacron
Milacron is a global leader in the manufacture, distribution, and
service of highly engineered and customized systems within the plastic
technology and processing industry. Milacron is the only global company
with a full-line product portfolio that includes hot runner systems,
injection molding, blow molding and extrusion equipment, mold
components, industrial supplies plus a wide market range of advanced
fluid technologies. Visit Milacron at www.milacron.com.
This press release is available in English only.
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