DECISION DIAGRAMS AIDED CONCEPTUAL MOLD DESIGN

摘要

The conceptual mold design for injection molding of thermoplastics represents one of the most important phases in mold designing. In practice, the solutions for this phase are often based only on the designer's experience, which may cause severe faults in the finished mold. One of the possibilities in solving this task during the mold design is to apply the decision diagram for a principled selection of the solution for single partial functions of the mold. Such decision diagrams may be very simply checked in practice, the necessary corrections made, and they may be then developed into an adequate computer program -knowledge base, which is of special significance to the less experienced mold designers.