INJECTION MOLDING MACHINE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily and securely execute actual operation of other processes during one molding cycle, in the one molding cycle of same time-process allocation as one molding cycle by an automatic operation mode, while actual operation of a metering process and an injecting process is not performed. SOLUTION: A system controller has a virtual cycle operation mode which does not perform the actual operation of the metering process and the injecting process, but executes a mold closing process, an ejector projecting process, a peripheral machine operating process, an ejector returning process, and a mold opening process, during the one molding cycle of the same time-process allocation as the one molding cycle by the automatic operation mode allocated in the same period as each period in the automatic operation mode, in each period of the metering process, the injecting process, and a cooling process. The system controller automatically gets a selection-setting state of the virtual cycle operation mode by instructing operation by the virtual cycle operation mode in a state where an operating condition in the automatic operation mode is set up and stored. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT