Computer Simulation Opportunity In Plastic Injection Mold Development for Automotive Part

Abstract

In development of a plastic injection mold, the goal of the designer is to achieve an optimal mold design with minimum material wastage and time per cycle, yet produces the product without defects and blemishes. To design the mold, the designer can vary the mold design by manipulate the shape of the part and also the runner and the gate locations. As a consequences of the cost involved in mold manufacture is very expensive, trial-and-error experimentation in the design of the mold is not economical. To permeate this problem, the used of CAD/CAE application assisted in design and establish the most optimal mold gating system. This research was conducted by implementing the use of CAD/CAE tools to produce an optimal mold gating design using CATIA and MOLDFLOW applications. The application tremendously assist the designer in resolve the mold with best gating location in producing an automotive plastic part with low defects, fast time-cycle and the most important factor is to reduce the manufacturing cost.