Experimental investigation of plastic injection molding: Assessment of the effects of cavity pressure and mold temperature on the quality of the final products

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 3217-3224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Kurt ◽  
O. Saban Kamber ◽  
Yusuf Kaynak ◽  
Gurcan Atakok ◽  
Oguz Girit
2012 ◽  
Vol 501 ◽  
pp. 168-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Wang

Filling-to-packing switchover control during injection molding plays a crucial role in ensuring the quality of the molded parts. In this study, a filling-to-packing switchover mode based on cavity pressure was presented, and it was compared with other two switchover modes by injection time and screw position. The objective of this study was to validate the accuracy of the switchover mode based on cavity pressure, and examine its consistency. Weight of the molded parts served as the main measure to probe the process capabilities. In this study, the change in mold temperature was monitored; variation of mold temperature affecting the process was examined. The results of the verification experiments revealed that the switchover mode based on cavity pressure could yield a better part quality and consistent part weight compared with the other two traditional switchover modes. It was proved that the switchover mode by cavity pressure can be used to improve the precision of the injection molding. However, a suitable switchover pressure must be used for achieving such high process capability, and the position to get the pressure signal and mold temperature should also be considered.


Author(s):  
Rosidah Jaafar ◽  
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Hambali Arep ◽  
Effendi Mohamad ◽  
Jeefferie Abd Razak ◽  
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The plastic injection molding process is one of the widely used of the manufacturing process to manufacture the plastic product with high productivity. Moreover, the food packaging manufacturing industry undergoes the trials and errors to obtain the optimal setting of the process parameters in order to minimize the quality issues and these trials and errors are time consuming and costly. The aim of this study is to improve the quality of the butter tub by minimizing the volumetric shrinkage. This study is to deal with the application of Moldflow integrating with the statistical technique to minimize the volumetric shrinkage the butter tub which depends on the process parameters of the plastic injection molding. For this purpose, the rectangular shape of butter tub is designed by utilizing the SolidWorks. Molflow is used to simulate the plastic filling of the single cavity mold of butter tub based on the Taguchi’s �!" orthogonal array table. In addition, the analysis of variance (ANOVA) is applied to investigate significant impact of the process parameters on the quality of the butter tub. Minitab is used to optimize the response of the volumetric shrinkage by selecting the most appropriate process parameters that maximizing the desirability value. Furthermore, the butter tub has a uniform thickness which was 1.2 mm and its factor of safety was 3.383 and the volumetric shrinkage response have optimized by 0.956 %. The melt temperature and mold temperature are found to be the most significant process parameters for the plastic injection molding process of butter tub and the volumetric shrinkage value obtained from the simulation is verified by the calculated volumetric shrinkage value.


2021 ◽  
pp. 2150113
Author(s):  
YUSUF OZBAKIS ◽  
ENGIN NAS

In the paper, the design optimization of the food-contact water tank filter used in industrial kitchen products was made and produced in plastic injection molding machine with different parameters. The effects of production parameters on product weight, fabric filter strength (tearing), production time and surface quality (burrs and gas gap) were investigated experimentally and statistically. The design of the experiments was prepared with the Taguchi L[Formula: see text] orthogonal array. Experiment parameters are determined as injection speed (A), holding press (B), holding speed (C), mold temperature (D), melting temperature (E) and compression waiting time (F). As a result, 154% improvement was achieved in the fabric strength as a result of design optimization. As a result of the optimization of the injection parameters of the product, when the response tables were examined, it is determined that the greatest value of filter fabric strength is 298[Formula: see text]N in A2B2C2D1E1F3 parameters. When ANOVA results are analyzed, the most effective parameter for fabric strength and surface quality was determined as mold temperature with 36.38% and compression waiting time with the lowest effective parameter as 0.08%.


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