Plastic Simulation Analysis for Injection Moulding in F&B Industry

The food and Beverage Industry is a large and diverse industry that consists of various kinds of specialized machinery for multiple purposes. This F&B industry is constantly looking for a more innovative approach to meeting consumers’ demands at the best possible price.

Mass Production in Plastic Injection Moulding

The industry is trying its best to find a more cost-effective method to manufacture its packaging such as a bottlecap. One of the manufacturing processes that focuses on mass production is plastic injection moulding. The benefits of high-volume, lower-cost production techniques allow them to produce more than thousands of parts by using a single mould.

Therefore, the question to ask all the F&B industry manufacturers is how can engineers work to avoid the unwanted costs this are normally caused by a poor manufacturing process while maintaining the quality of the outcome product.

Avoid Costly Mould Rework

In conventional injection-moulded design, the approach for designing injection-moulded products and developing injection moulds highly relies on costly and time-consuming prototyping iterations. It is critical for production personnel to verify mould performance such as structural weakness and undesirable deformation to prevent defects. Although they can use the trial-and-error approach to try to speed production but would need to consider that speeding up production will save more money than the cost of mould rework.

Therefore, a fast and accurate simulation approach can be used to integrate the entire process and provide a better collaboration, accurate and efficient environment users for users to modify the design, ensuring the reliability and workability of a mould before actual production.

Optimize Cycle Time of Mass Production

Once manufacturing personnel receives the final mould from the mould maker, they need to evaluate the tool from a production standpoint to determine if other modifications can be made to reduce the cycle times without opening the door to additional manufacturing issues. An approach that can quote and optimize tooling projects quickly and accurately will be very powerful in this case to reduce the plastic material scrap.

Wrapping Up

In short, optimizing the entire process of plastic injection moulding helps to reduce the cost to spend on a project. SolidWorks Plastics makes it easy for companies that design plastic parts or injection moulds to predict and avoid manufacturing defects during the earliest stages of design, eliminating costly rework, improving quality, and accelerating time-to-market.

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