Thanks for the article Greg. Our tooling is for EPDM rubber
though which has some different requirements than plastic. I'm new
at the injection process itself as well as the material.
Anyway - yes I'm interested in two things: transient (heating up)
of the tool as well as it's steady state. We use internal mold
heaters as well as heated platens to heat our molds and are often
fighting cold spots after the fact. It would be helpful to apply
the proper material properties to all components and run it through
a simulation to show us where these cold spots might exist so that
we can reverse engineer internal heater locations.
I'm not interested in the actual molding cycle (fill, pack, warp)
analysis. We are currently evaluating another software to do that
for us on our intial part designs so that we can better engineer
gate sizes, locations, runner geometry, process settings etc.
Thanks,
Aaron
It will not help you in the filling process of the mold, but will do transient and steady state heat transfer if the mold is filled.
Thanks for the article Greg. Our tooling is for EPDM rubber though which has some different requirements than plastic. I'm new at the injection process itself as well as the material.