Plastic Part Design: To Use Ribs or Not to Use Ribs

摘要

At the risk of drawing the ire of 90%+ of plastic part designers, my experience is that by 90%+ of part designers create designs that fall far short of optimum. The problem is that most designers do not have the necessary foundational knowledge of the complex interde-pendency of their designs with the polymer, mold and injection molding process. For every part designer who doesn't like reading this, I can find you a dozen molders who will cheer my position.