Solutions: Standard and Customized

At Lawton, we realize you know your product better than anyone else does. We'll partner with you to blend your company's expertise with our experience in designing world renowned molding machines.

With a full line of standard presses and the in-house ability to customize any molding machine, Lawton can develop a solution to meet your company's specific needs. Our line of thermoset molding machines ranges from 5 to 3,000 tons of clamp force.

Lawton offers these and other features:

• Adjustable pressure: 10 to 100%.
• Graphical user interface with touch screen.
• High performance heat exchanger for efficient cooling.
• Hydraulic circuit test ports with quick connect gauge.
• Hydraulic ejection on moving and fixed platen.
• Plug-in connections on solenoid valves.
• Rotary table.
• Shuttle system.
• Stationary platen configuration.
• Transfer cylinder.
• Multi-plunger transfer systems.

Control Systems

Lawton is your partner in technology. We can provide your company with these and other process control systems to improve consistency and efficiency, and monitor processing parameters:

• Clamp position sensor.
• LCD operator interface for entering process parameters and monitoring alarms.
• Motion controllers.
• Networking.
• PC-based process control.
• PID temperature controls.
• PLCs
• Position and pressure sensors-closed loop control.
• Proportional speed and pressure controls.
• Robotics.
• Servo control speed and pressure.
• Multi-zone, solid state proportional temperature controls.
• Touch screens.

 

Control Software

Using standard control software is often like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. That's why Lawton's ability to customize software has become a competitive advantage for companies like yours. Lawton's internal staff of programmers can write and modify programs to fit any molding application.

 

Fault Correction Systems

Many machines are designed to notify an operator of a problem, but Lawton has taken this feature to a higher level. Lawton's fault correction systems can identify a problem and provide the operator with the appropriate action needed to correct the problem. With this feature, downtime can be substantially reduced.

 

Your Company Benefits

Better quality. Decreased downtime. Increased productivity.
They may sound like industry buzzwords, but Lawton technology has given new meaning to performance. At Lawton, we'll work with your company to provide benefits like:

• Reduced cycle time and labor costs.
• Greater consistency throughout the entire molding process. This results in improved quality and reduced waste.
• The ability to respond to a broader customer base. Lawton can design machines that can handle mix lines for targeting multiple customer applications.
• Cost-effective solutions. Lawton has built partnerships based on trust. If your company can benefit from leading edge technology and automation. Lawton will provide the solutions. In the same respect, we'll let you know if other options will be just as effective in meeting your goals.