RFID4Mold – A Predictive Maintenance Solution

By OEM Update Editorial January 19, 2022 11:21 am IST

Innovation team of TURCK developed the efficient solution for predictive maintenance of Injection Moulding Moulds with the help of their RFID and Cloud solutions.

In today’s world of Industrie4.0 Turck is contributing in almost every part of automotive, pharma, chemical, intralogistics & metal mining industries with its innovative product range and solution approach. The development of TURCK is characterized by innovation: with its ideas and solutions, TURCK has often been the one of the first on the market since last 55 years. Maintaining the same trend, the innovation team of TURCK developed the efficient solution for predictive maintenance of Injection Molding Molds with the help of their RFID and Cloud solutions. The solution is crafted with industry – specific application knowledge from the intensive dialogue with customers, combined with electronics development, software development and production at highest level. 

RFID4Mold is a complete package for monitoring and realizing the complete lifecycle of a mold along with predictive maintenance features. It optimizes the use of injection molds and enable condition-based predictive maintenance. It also offers digital tool management features as standard solution. RFID4Mold is a plugand-play, fully scalable and modular solution package providing best features of RFID, PLC, IO-Link and Software from TURCK basket. It enables optimal utilization of injection molds and high availability also, prevents mold failures and reduces unplanned downtimes. 

With live dashboard and efficient database system synchronizing has in hand with TURCK PLC over OPC-UA, RFID4Mold is one of the most reliable, advanced and modular solution one can get for their injection molds. 

Turck is one of the leading manufacturers in industrial automation. As a specialist in sensor, fieldbus, connection and interface technology and also human-machine interfaces (HMI) and RFID systems, they offer efficient solution for factory and process automation. With our state-of-the-art production facilities in Germany, Switzerland, the USA, Mexico and China the family-owned company is able to react quickly and flexibly to the demands of local markets. 

Automation solutions and products by Turck increase the availability and efficiency of systems, if applied in machine and plant construction, in the sectors of automotive, transport and handling, food and packaging or in the chemical or pharmaceutical industry. Moreover, its solutions lower costs for purchase, storage, installation and operational safety through effective standardization. Industryspecific knowledge, gained through intensive dialog with customers paired with electronics development and production on highest level, ensure optimal solutions for automation. 

Expertise shared by: 

Avinash Ojha, 

RFID4Mold.