Patent ID: 9555570
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: B29C,G05B

Claim:
1. A method for retrieving mold cycle data comprising: positioning a monitor with respect to a mold, the monitor having a housing and an actuator electrically connected to a processor capable of determining an elapsed time: generating a release signal when the mold is open as determined by the actuator and an active signal when the mold is closed as determined by the actuator; tracking a duration of time of each of the release signal and the active signal, recording a number of cycles generated by the mold; recording an active time that the mold is in operation based upon said active signal; recording an idle time that the mold is not in operation based upon said release signal; and the processor generating an activity percentage of the mold, which is defined as the active time divided by a sum of the active time plus the idle time, and the processor displaying the activity percentage on an electronic display of the monitor.