Interview with Agustín Durán, commercial director of C.T. Service (Centrotecnica)
For many, a peripheral is an auxiliary team of support, a complement, a secondary element to the that no always loans him the owed attention. It shares this opinion? Cuán Important thinks that is the peripheral in the final result, in the development and manufacture of the product finished and his quality?
In a lot of cases, the peripheral team in the industry of the plastic is so important like the machine of transformation in himself same. Nowadays, to be competitive are indispensable productivity and quality. And although the machine of transformation is basic for this committed, this needs a constant dosage of material, with the degree of humidity adapted or with the exact dosage of additives that only will attain with feeders, dryers or dehumidifiers and dosificadores gravimétricos or volumetric suitable.
Is important to realise a constant maintenance of the temperature of the hydraulics circuits of the machine and a very precise control of the temperature of the moulds or toolings, where the refrigerators and atemperadores exert a crucial paper. The employment of robots and manipulators also results indispensable to keep the repetitividad of cycles in injection (to greater stability of the greater process quality and fewer rejections), or stravel transportadoras to extract pieces, transport them, separadores of coladas and, as no, the mills and trituradores to take advantage of to the maximum the costly materials. In a lot of cases the failure or unfit of one of these peripherals supposes the unemployed irremediable of the transformative machine and, therefore, of the production. His importance is very big, and his quality and reliability, a point to have very in account.
In the actuality, a lot of transformers buy to his provider complete lines, that include all the necessary peripheral equipment for the manufacture of his products. It agrees with this affirmation? In which measure has affected him this tendency to his company? Which arguments can esgrimir a specialist in peripherals to combat this situation?
Generally, in the industry of the injection with conventional machine, except that the manufacturer of the inyectora have in his offer also the peripheral, the customers buy separately machine and team, even to several different providers. In another type of sectors where the transformative machine is not so standard and in a lot of cases creates an island of complex work (extrusion or blown technician, for example), is used to trust to the provider of the machine the election and incorporation to the process of the peripheral equipment. In this case the main reason is the need to guarantee, by part of the provider of the machine, a manufacture with some determinate figures of production and quality and, on the other hand, in these sectors where the cost of the machinery is greater and the price of the peripheral incide little in the total amount of the investment, the final customer purchases the complete productive unit. In our case, since we are providers of both types of transformative machinery, so much standard as complex units of production, find us with both cases, even with the one to be providers of peripherals to customers that purchase the machine of transformation to a third. It is difficult to combat the situation when a manufacturer of a complex unit of work has to guarantee a production and determinate quality, since it will choose and will tune the peripheral equipment according to his needs and will integrate them in the same machine as if they were part of her, something commonly accepted by the final customer of this type of machines.
