Automated Mold Handling Cranes: Cross-industry & Efficient Mold Change

KUANGSHAN CRANE automated mold handling cranes are key processing equipment specially designed for mold handling and storage in automotive stamping workshops.These automated mold handling cranes solve the pain points of traditional manual mold change: low efficiency, poor safety, and difficult access for multi-layer mold stacking.By integrating an intelligent control system and dedicated lifting attachments, they achieve fully automatic, high-precision mold transportation between the warehouse and stamping presses.

Advantages of Automated Mold Handling Cranes

1. The crane is equipped with functions such as automatic positioning, WCS management, zone protection and safety anti-collision. Together with dedicated lifting attachments, it realizes automated transfer and management in mold workshops.

2. The crane provides multiple flexible control modes, including cabin control, mobile PA control and remote control, ensuring safe, convenient and efficient operation.

3. It is equipped with an anti-sway system, combined with high-precision servo control for the lifting attachment, achieving millimeter-level positioning accuracy.

4. The electrical control system features advanced functions including laser anti-collision protection, light curtain zone protection, video monitoring and 3D visual digital twin, providing real-time protection for the safe operation of the crane.

5. It can be seamlessly connected with the WMS (Warehouse Management System) of stamping production lines and warehouses, realizing efficient full-process scheduling and precise mold transportation from storage to production stations. It delivers a high-performance, high-safety mold logistics solution for stamping workshops.

Core Components: Intelligent Special Clamp

High-Grade Mold Clamp

Stable four-point suspension clamp with an optimized rope arrangement system that reduces the number of wire rope pulleys, helping to maximize the service life of wire ropes.

Intelligent Sensors

Sensors can identify safe load clamping conditions and detect the surrounding area of the clamp to avoid collisions.

Integrated Intelligent Functions

Intelligent functions including active anti-sway control, hook centering, target positioning and zone protection help improve production safety, shorten lifting cycle time and enhance load positioning accuracy.

Adaptable to Various Mold Sizes

The special lifting attachment features X-axis and Y-axis telescopic movement as well as Z-axis rotation. Combined with the crane’s traveling mechanism, it achieves 6-axis bidirectional trajectory motion and can adapt to a wide range of mold specifications.

Successful Applications in Various Industries

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In stamping workshops of the automotive manufacturing industry, automated mold handling cranes are used for body parts of different shapes and sizes to meet the requirements of multi-vehicle production, where stamping molds need to be changed very frequently.

Automated mold handling cranes safely and efficiently complete the rapid handling and precise positioning of heavy-duty molds between the automated warehouse and multiple stamping presses with high precision and automation, realizing fast change of complete mold sets.

This enables the production line to respond flexibly to real-time adjustments of production plans, significantly shortens mold change time, and improves overall equipment efficiency. It is key basic equipment supporting modern stamping workshops in achieving lean production and intelligent manufacturing transformation featuring “multi-variety, small-batch and high-speed rhythm”.

Plastics Industry

In the plastics industry, automated mold handling cranes are mainly used for the automatic change and storage of heavy injection molds.

Faced with multi-variety and small-batch production demands, the equipment can safely and accurately complete the automatic pick-up, handling and positioning of large molds between the automated warehouse and multiple injection molding machines, greatly shortening mold change time and avoiding mold damage caused by manual operation.

Meanwhile, three-dimensional storage saves floor space, supporting flexible and efficient production in injection molding workshops.

Metal Processing Industry

In the metal processing field, automated mold handling cranes are used for the handling and storage of heavy molds for forging and stamping large metal parts.

Such molds are heavy and bulky, and need to be changed frequently in high-speed production.

With precise positioning and heavy-load handling capacity, the equipment safely and efficiently completes the rapid transfer of molds between warehouses and multiple forging/stamping presses, shortens mold change cycles, and avoids safety risks and mold damage caused by manual operation.

Rubber Industry

In rubber manufacturing, automated mold handling cranes serve the production mold handling of large and heavy rubber products (such as pipes and profiles).

Such molds require fine movement to avoid deformation or damage.

With stable lifting and precise positioning functions, the equipment realizes automatic access of molds between the automated warehouse and multiple molding machines, supporting a continuous production rhythm while reducing labor intensity and error rate of manual handling.