Information System for Injection Molding Tools

Tools for injection molding are very expensive parts of this kind of production and they must be handled very carefully. An important part of their handling is the management of data related to the tools. The important data for injection molding tools is possible divide to different areas economical, technological, production etc. With an increasing impact of information technologies on manufacturing we get the possibility to effectively manage their use and to obtain an important influence on the increase of productivity and reduction of manufacturing costs. It is commonly today handle all data for some objects inside the more or less specific information system. This information system must be integrated into a complex control system for the whole manufacturing system – the interface to all relevant subsystems must be defined and implemented. This paper describes proposal and implementation of such information system, which was developed in the Institute of Production Engineering of Faculty of Technology, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czech Republic in cooperation with the Faculty of Applied Informatics of Tomas Bata University in Zlin and Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University Brno, Czech Republic.