With the help of master data, time resources can be saved in advance.

The IMG offers the following advantages:

• Data can be stored quickly and easily and serve as information and data transfer to the individual departments throughout the entire sampling process.
  
  
• With the help of the internal database, all data created, such as the plastic to be processed or the injection moulding machine used, can be stored.
  
  
• Documents, templates, images and photos can be integrated and edited.
  
  
• Numerous links from the master data contribute later in the software to a more effective time-reducing processing of the individual steps.
  
  

Operational implementation
with the IMG

Once all the important background information has been compiled, inserted and saved under master data, the next step is the operational part on the machine.

The user can choose from the following options under the button "Add new sample" (Fig. 1). Choose categories like:

• Initial sampling
• Follow-up sampling
• Process optimization
• Material samples
• Complaint

Figure 1: Add new sample

Figure 2: IMG structure tree