Investigation of Plastic Injecting Moulding Process Optimization in Complex Shape Product
Nowadays, plastic injection molding is widely used in the production of very complex parts and it enables to produce numerous parts within one cycle. Molding conditions or process parameters are crucial for productivity and quality of desired products. This research aims to investigate the state-of-the-art approach to find optimal parameters characteristics in plastic injection molding process. Fill time, average velocity, pressure, clamp force, cooling time and volumetric shrinkages are selected as process parameters in this research. Nokia 6680 model is used for revealing process optimization. Two case studies based on two plates and three plate moulding layout are conducted to suggest the plastic injection mold optimization process. The process parameters of two proposed layouts are compared based on Mold flow Plastics Insight (MPI) analysis results. Result show that three plate moulding satisfy not only the process quality but also the product quality characteristics in this injection moulding process.