An integrated concurrent injection mold design approach

摘要

This paper presents a Concurrent Engineering (CE) approach for three-dimensional (3D) solid-based injection mold design. The approach drastically re-engineers the traditional mold design process. Benchmarking from industrial applications have shown that the approach is capable of offering more than 50% reduction in lead time and around 10% saving in man-effort. It also maximizes utilization of key experts within a company and minimizes human-errors.