A blind design sometimes leads to modification on mold many a times, leading to longer lead-time and avoidable high cost of mold making. Mold flow analysis helps to ensure that the mold will be capable of producing the strongest and uniform parts from each cavity. The success of mold project is determined by addressing and optimising the issues like
- Temperature distribution
- Gate location
- Venting area
- Optimal cooling channel
- Flow pressures
- Clamping force and
- Warpage.
Mold flow analysis will advise the ease and complete filling of cavity. Through this analysis one can visualise the filling and identify the problem if any. Some of the filling problems such as short shot and air-vents can be identified and check if the solution to overcome the given problem does not results in a problem at other area through fill animation. Thus mold flow analysis helps to change the position of the gate, injection speed, and other processing conditions to minimise the adverse effect.
The advantages of using the mold flow analysis is to avoid potential defects like deformation, volumetric shrinkage, weld line etc. Designers can change the wall thickness or enhance the ribs to improve their part design based on the analysis result.
Conceptia – Solution Provider for Mold projects.We at Conceptia do provide mold flow analysis solution for various types of parts meeting varied requirements. We have been able to add value by providing features like pins and ribs which had filling issues. They were promptly identified and recommendations for resizing of the components resulted in costs and time overuns.
