The enhanced software helps automate the process of injection molding machine setup, optimization, and control. Time-saving features address stringent production schedules and challenging product quality requirements. Plastication optimization provides information to generate recommended barrel temperature profiles, back-pressure settings, and screw rotation settings. The setup cooling time routine both optimizes and minimizes cooling time and overall cycle time, and design of experiments (DOE) enhancements include part weight, dimensions, and warpage along with other part quality criteria choices, packing time, and cooling time. Online process setup sheets save critical process parameters associated with particular production runs. The automatically generated HTML-based documents save important data related to velocity and pressure files, temperature profiles, and back pressure and screw speed profiles.