CoreTech System (Moldex3D) is pleased to announce that we will be exhibiting at Plastivision India 2017 (Booth #: Hall 6, G1-10), one of the most influential B2B plastics trade show of India, from January 19 to 23, 2017 in Mumbai, India.

Held in every 3 years, Plastivision India today has become the platform for companies to launch new products, grow their network within and outside the industry, learn new technologies and exchange ideas on a global level. Such is the influence of the show that today it is ranked amongst the top 10 plastic industry events globally.

At this grand, influential plastics event, Moldex3D plans to showcase our latest developments in plastic engineering by demonstrating our innovative simulation capabilities, discuss the hottest molding and CAE technologies, and explore possible solutions to help you design and manufacture better plastic parts. Please come visit us at our booth (Booth #: Hall 6, G1-10) and find out what we can do to help you excel in today’s competitive global climate.

Venue

Bombay Exhibition Centre

Event Contact

For sales and technical inquiries: Mr. Nick Chang, Country Manager, nickchang@moldex3d.com
For marketing and event inquires: Ms. Yvonne Liu, Marketing Specialist, yvonneliu@moldex3d.com

CoreTech System (Moldex3D) is pleased to announce that we will be returning to Anaheim, CA and exhibiting again at PLASTEC West 2017 (Booth #: 4033), one of the largest annual design and manufacturing events from February 7 – 9, 2017.

North America’s Largest Annual Design & Manufacturing Event

PLASTEC West connects you with over 20,000 engineers and executives, as well as hundreds of leading suppliers, across the advanced design and manufacturing spectrum who all understand the value in working together on the industry’s cutting edge.

This your chance to learn from industry luminaries as they present their insights, and find the plastics technology, innovation, and inspiration you should be taking back to the office. It’s three days of industry immersion that plastics professionals simply can’t afford to miss.

Moldex3D cordially invites you to come visit our booth at Booth #: 4033 to discuss the latest molding and simulation technologies and explore the possible solutions to your plastic product design and manufacturing challenges.

Venue

Anaheim Convention Center

Contact

For sales and technical inquiries, please write to sales.us@moldex3d.com
For marketing and event inquires, please write to yvonneliu@moldex3d.com

Moldex3D is pleased to announce that we will attend Innovations in Automotive Cockpits 2016 Conference in India, hosted by ITB Group on December 7, 2016 in Pune, India. The event will take place in Sheraton Grand Pune Bund Garden Hotel (formerly Le Méridien Pune) and will be a premium conference focusing on “automotive interior parts developments.”

Moldex3D’s professional will be on-site and speak at this industry-focused event. For anyone who is interested in attending this event, please register via ITB Group website.

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Moldex3D’s Speaking Session

• Section: Leveraging Resources in India for Pre-Development of Automotive Cockpits
• Time: 3:05 p.m.
• Topic: Latest Simulation Technology to Eliminate Interior Surface Problem
• Abstract: The topic focuses on how CAE simulation technology could help predict common surface defects including stress marks, flow marks, and tiger stripes.
• Speaker: Mr. Nick Chang, Country Manager – India at Moldex3D

Venue

Sheraton Grand Pune Bund Garden Hotel

Contact

Nick Chang
nickchang@moldex3d.com

Moldex3D is proud to announce that we will be present at 2017 Plastics in Automotive Conference, hosted by Plastics News on January 9 – 10, 2017 in Detroit, MI. The event will take place in Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center and will be one of the largest events for automotive molders and suppliers in North America.

As an honored sponsor of this event, Moldex3D’s professional will be on-site (Booth #: 40) and speak to the event’s professionals about our CAE simulation solutions for the automotive industry. Please don’t forget to stop by and say hi to us at this event!

Venue

Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center

Event Contact

Yvonne Liu
yvonneliu@moldex3d.com

Webinar: Exploring the New Frontier of Plastic Injection Molding Simulation Technology

Simulation technology is rapidly reshaping the manufacturing landscape, greatly reducing the time and cost needed to get the best products to the market. Over the years, the technology has been evolving to serve the needs of various molding processes and design purposes.

This session will introduce you to the world of simulation for manufacturing plastic products, including the latest technology advances and a quick look at some of the most prominent features and enhancements of the next version of Moldex3D, to help you create better plastic parts and mold designs.

Registration

We’re offering two sessions for this webinar, so be sure to attend the one that best fits your schedule! Calculate your time zone by clicking here.

Fiber-reinforced plastics have played a large role in lightweight design. However, process-induced properties, such as local fiber orientation, residual stress, and temperature, are often overlooked in FEA structural simulation, and therefore the plastic behavior is often highly approximated. To obtain accurate structural nonlinear FEA simulations of reinforced plastic parts, Moldex3D Digimat-RP combines the expertise of Moldex3D’s True 3D analysis on injection molding and Digimat’s specialized technology in advanced material modeling, providing a straight-forward workflow that streamlines the process of accurate structural nonlinear FEA simulations of reinforced plastic parts. Attend this webinar and learn how to design better fiber reinforced plastic parts in a faster and more robust manner!

Registration

We’re offering two sessions for this webinar, so be sure to attend the one that best fits your schedule! Calculate your time zone by clicking here.

The continuous surge in demand for lightweight yet high-strength design has prompted large components to undergo composite-for-metal replacement. One of the most common processes for making composite products is a two-step process – draping followed by compression molding of the draped part . With this process, the challenge is how to effectively control the deformed shape of the final part. In this webinar, we will show you how to obtain the effects of draping on fiber orientation through LS-DYNA structural analysis software, and then export the effects into Moldex3D for an integrated analysis. Such an analysis can help engineers evaluate the effects of draping on warpage for the best possible design.

Registration

We’re offering two sessions for this webinar, so be sure to attend the one that best fits your schedule! Calculate your time zone by clicking here.

In recent years, the manufacturing industry is witnessing a massive shift towards the use of lightweight materials, such as fiber-reinforced plastics to help create “light in weight and high in strength” products. However, this shift also creates many challenges as designers and engineers need to

This webinar will help you understand the role computer-aided engineering solutions play in lightweighting and how you can leverage simulation tools to help you fully exploit the benefits of lightweight materials and applications to produce lighter, stronger parts.

Registration

We’re offering two sessions for this webinar, so be sure to attend the one that best fits your schedule! Calculate your time zone by clicking here.

With more than 100 countries represented, and an annual 6% growth of visits, JEC World has become the largest show in the world dedicated to composites. In JEC World 2017, Moldex3D (Hall 5A Booth M82) will highlight our advanced 3D CAE solutions for the development of composite products to meet your demand for lightweight product designs.

Moldex3D simulates a wide range of composite manufacturing processes; our key functionalities for composite manufacturing include:

• Short/Long fiber-filled material injection molding
• SMC/GMT compression molding process
• In-house material property testing for long-fiber pellets, GMT/SMC and prepreg/fabrics
• Prepreg autoclave curing process
• MuCell® process
• RTM filling and curing process

Make sure to visit us at Booth M82 in Hall 5A and find out how Moldex3D’s innovative solutions can help you improve your composite product designs!

Venue

Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center

Contact

Vera Yeh
verayeh@moldex3d.com
+886-3-5600199 ext. 707

Date | 2016/11/02

Audix Ensures Connector Size Accuracy and Eliminates Appearance Defects through Moldex3D

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Customer Profile

Customer: Audix Country: Taiwan Industry: Electronics Solution: Moldex3D Advanced Package

Audix is a semiconductor/electronic component distributor and expanded to certification and manufacturing. Manufacturing Group within Audix produces back light modules, relays, transformers, precision molds, plastic injection products, and also electroplating and automated machinery. A joint venture with Japanese enterprise located in Wujiang produces large-sized CCFL for TVs and monitors. (Source: www.audix.com/index_en.aspx) 

Executive Summary

This case features a high voltage connector made from PBT, a thermoplastic crystalline polymer ideal for connector applications. Because of its crystalline nature, serious shrinkage problems may occur. The challenge lies in the fact that the product size accuracy is highly demanded to meet the stringent electronic assembly requirement. Also, visible appearance defects such as air traps or short shots are not allowed. Therefore, how to simultaneously achieve the size accuracy and eliminate appearance defects is the main issue in this case. Audix used Moldex3D to analyze the volume shrinkage distribution and adjusted the thickness in the high volume shrinkage region. Audix also adjusted the gate size to eliminate air traps.  Audix was able to successfully solve the shrinkage problem and eliminate visible appearance defects in time to enable an effective workflow forproduct mass production.

Challenges

• Improve size accuracy
• Eliminate visible appearance defects

Solutions

Audix used Moldex3D to evaluate the part thickness  and gate design and was able to achieve the optimal product optimization in the early product development stage.

Benefits

• Improved size accuracy up to 77%
• Reduced mold trial cost and development time

Case Study

The purpose of this project is to solve the shrinkage problem around the holes on a high-voltage connector in order to meet the accuracy requirement (as shown in Fig. 1). The unexpected high shrinkage around the holes exceeded the pre-set tolerance. In the meantime, air traps would occur if Audix tried to improve the product shrinkage by slimming down the part thickness. Thus, how to achieve the size accuracy and eliminate the visible appearance defects  simultaneously would be the primary objective of this project.

Fig. 1 Shrinkage problem around the holes

After finding the high volume shrinkage region, Audix proposed a new gate design by increasing the gate number from a single gate to a doubled-gate design, one gate on each side (Fig. 2). The doubled-gate design reduced the maximum volume shrinkage from 17% to 14% according to Moldex3D’s simulation results.

Fig. 2 The original design (left) has only one gate. The gate number in the revised design (right) is increased to 2 gates.

Apart from the gate design, the part thickness was modified as well. Audix proposed two different thickness reduction designs. In Design 1, the part thickness at both core and cavity sides are reduced separately in order to meet the geometry aesthetic requirement. Fig. 3 highlights the reduced material locations and the volume shrinkage result. However, the volume shrinkage was not improved as much as expected in Design 1.

Fig. 3 Design 1: Reduce materials at the core side and cavity side

In Design 2, the part thickness is further reduced by modifying the slider based on Design 1 (Fig. 4). The simulation results showed that Design 2 can effectively decrease the volumetric shrinkage values at the specific regions. Besides, the volume shrinkage distribution became more uniform after the modification. However, this modification would cause the occurrence of air traps at the side wall (Fig. 5). Hence, Audix enlarged the gate size from 1 mm to 1.5 mm in an attempt to move the air trap location from the side wall to the parting surface.

Fig. 4 Design 2: Reduce materials from sides

Fig. 5 Air trap problem in Design 2

According to the simulation, Audix measured the length of the 4 holes at the top and the bottom of the part to evaluate the size accuracy after shrinkage. The simulation results showed that the length at bottom 1 and bottom 4 after shrinkage exceed the requirement in the original design. In Design 2, the accuracy successfully improved up to 77%, qualifying the part for production.

Audix had conducted a short shot test to verify Moldex3D’s reliability. As shown in Fig. 6, the melt front simulation accurately displays the flow behavior during injection. Furthermore, when Audix compared the actual mold trial with the simulation results of Design 2, they found that the air trap location is coincident with the simulation result as shown in Fig. 7.

Fig. 6 Melt front comparison between the experiment and simulation results

Fig. 7 Air trap comparison between the experiment and simulation results in Design 2

Results

With Moldex3D simulation, Audix could understand the flow behavior inside the mold and find potential problems before an actual molding. The accurate prediction helps Audix reduce the cost of mold trials and development time as well as improve the product quality.

Moldex3D is pleased to announce that we will exhibit (Booth #: Hall 6, C19) in International Conference and Exhibition on Reinforced Plastics from January 10 – 12, 2017 in Mumbai, India.

Moldex3D will showcase our comprehensive simulation solution for composite manufacturing. Moldex3D’s fiber analysis provides accurate results on all aspects of short/long fiber-filled injection molding, including fiber orientation, fiber length (fiber breakage prediction), and fiber concentration. New capabilities are also added in the product portfolio. For instance, Moldex3D Digimat-RP provides users the ability for concurrent engineering of the molding process and FRP part design for optimal performance. The RTM module employs the true 3D CAE technology that accurately simulates the resin’s in-mold flow behavior. Also, Draping Analysis offers great insights into the properties of orthotropic materials in composite over-molding to predict warpage in injection-molded polymer parts.

Moldex3D’s solutions for composite manufacturing also include:

• SMC/GMT compression molding process
• Prepreg autoclave curing process
• MuCell® process
• In-house material property testing for long-fiber pellets, GMT/SMC and  prepreg/fabrics

You are cordially invited to visit our booth (Booth #: Hall 6, C19) and have a chat with us to discover what we can offer to help you design and manufacture better FRP products.

Venue

Bombay Exhibition Centre, Goregaon East

Contact

For sales & technical inquires: nickchang@moldex3d.com
For marketing & event inquires: yvonneliu@moldex3d.com

Hsinchu, Taiwan– December 21, 2016– CoreTech System (Moldex3D), the global leading provider of plastic injection molding simulation solutions, has been awarded with the prestigious “Taiwan Excellence Award”. “Winning this award is truly an honor and indeed a great recognition of Moldex3D’s core value. Over the years, Moldex3D has  persisted to dedicate our energy and resources in the continuation of the research and development in advanced simulation technologies for plastic injection molding and aimed to provide our  customers practical solutions to grow and succeed in their industry sectors,” said Dr. Rong-Yeu Chang, Chairman and CEO of CoreTech System (Moldex3D).

The selection of Taiwan Excellence Awards is conducted by Bureau of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Economic Affairs in Taiwan. It is the only comprehensive and prestigious product selection that considers R&D, quality, design and marketing evaluations. It emphasizes the innovation value of “Made in Taiwan” products and selects the most innovative products equipped with comprehensive competitiveness, innovative development power as well as branding and marketing abilities.

Moldex3D CAE software for plastic injection molding was selected among 1188 products submitted by 518 different companies this year. The winning, key technology of Moldex3D is the simulation capabilities of plastics engineering. The software enables the simulation and visualization of various molding processes, and helps users predict potential design defects through scientific theories and parameters prior to the actual production. Moldex3D’s core values are rooted in the true and tangible benefits that they can bring to its customers by assisting them to design and manufacture high-quality plastic products and reduce mold trial times to further avoid unnecessary material waste and production cost.

The awarded product – Moldex3D R14.0 is the latest version of the software. It includes several significant improvements which empower users to work faster and easier on complex models with increased accuracy and numerous novel simulation capabilities for advanced processing applications are made available to further assist the design and manufacturing of the plastic parts.  For more information, please visit Moldex3D product introduction page on Taiwan Excellence website.

About “Taiwan Excellence Award”
“Taiwan Excellence Award” is based on five key indicators: R&D, Design, Quality, Marketing, and Made in Taiwan. The five indicators are of equal importance, and each is judged on its “Innovation Value,” the most important standard of all. Products that receive the “Taiwan Excellence Award” are authorized by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) to use the “Taiwan Excellence” mark. For more information, please visit Taiwan Excellence website.

About CoreTech System (Moldex3D)
CoreTech System Co., Ltd. (Moldex3D) has been providing the professional CAE analysis solution “Moldex” series for the plastic injection molding industry since 1995, and the current product “Moldex3D” is marketed and supported worldwide. Committed to providing advanced technologies and solutions for industrial demands, CoreTech System has extended its worldwide sales and service network to provide local, immediate, and professional services. CoreTech System provides innovative simulation software to help customers troubleshoot from product design to development, optimize design patterns, shorten time-to-market, and maximize product return on investment (ROI). More information about Moldex3D can be found at www.moldex3d.com.

Date | 2016/12/26

Polyurethane foam is a common thermoset plastic material used in automotive manufacturing.  It is a porous, low-density and high-strength material, and these features make polyurethane foam a popular material that can be widely applied in producing various automotive parts.  The most common applications include automotive seats, interiors and the parts under the hood. Polyurethane also has other advantages such as moldability, light weight, and long lifetime. Compared to some other thermoset materials, polyurethane is relatively easy to convert back into its original monomer. Additionally, due to the thermoset nature of polymer, it can withstand higher temperature without melting.

Although polyurethane has the advantages mentioned above, there are some challenges in processing polyurethane foam. In reality, the location of the foam within the part is not easy to access.  Furthermore, a large amount of wasted polyurethane materials generated at overflow during the foaming process need to be reduced or recycled.

To address the above issue, CAE simulation enables users to understand the dynamic behaviors in the mold filling process and optimize the product designs.  With the goal of providing a more comprehensive coverage of the foam molding analysis, Moldex3D not only has extended the microcellular injection molding (MCIM) analysis from thermoplastic to thermosetting materials, but also is able to simulate the foaming kinetics now. This simulation capability will be officially released in the upcoming version of Moldex3D – R15.  Through polyurethane foaming simulation, users are able to know its dynamic behaviors in both filling and foaming stage when manufacturing the polyurethane foam products.

The following example is a simulation of the polyurethane foam molding process with polyurethane system, as shown in Fig 1. We set the heat mold at temperature 60oC, inlet stream at 30oC. First, the polymer melt will begin filling the cavity because of gravity. When the filling reaches at one-fourth of the cavity, CO2 gas will be released by the polyurethane reaction, and the polymer viscosity will increase due to the gelation reaction.  Meanwhile, the reaction heat of the exothermic reaction will be released to increase the temperature of the cavity.  As a result, more and more CO2 gases are released to the polymer melt under a relatively high temperature condition. Eventually, polyurethane foam will completely fill the cavity.

Fig. 1 Melt front time of the polyurethane foam injection molding process.

In summary, with Moldex3D’s new simulation feature of polyurethane foaming, users can fully understand the dynamic behavior of the foamed thermoset material in both filling and foaming stage. More importantly, the in-depth analysis of polyurethane foaming enables users to avoid trial-and-error which subsequently leads to substantial time and production cost reductions.

Date | 2016/12/26

Having a good quality geometry is essential in building a proper mesh for a successful CAE analysis. Low-quality geometry will need additional manual efforts to repair defects in the pre-processing stage and the mesh quality can be compromised.

Moldex3D CADdoctor is a useful tool that supports data translation among multi-CAD systems and fixes geometric errors from different file conversions.

Here are 3 easy steps in CADdoctor to help you check and fix common errors of your CAD model:

Surface mesh defect: Not using CADdoctor (left) vs. using CADdoctor (right)

Step 1: After importing the geometry into Designer, click  to review the geometry quality. Under Geometry Defect Checks, click CADdoctor and select Yes in the following window. CADdoctor will be launched and the model will be imported automatically.

Step 2: The main working panel on the left has two sections: the upper section lists all the detected defects, and the lower section contains the basic repair tools (). First, click to Check the geometry defects and the results will be listed in the table.

Step 3: Second, click  Auto Stitch to fix adjacent vertexes and curves with distance smaller than the user-defined tolerance. The pop-up window will show the number of free edges before auto-stitch and the tolerance to apply.  Specify a tolerance and click Try; CADdoctor will estimate the number of free edges after stitch. Click Fix to execute stitching if satisfied with the estimated result.

Step 4: Click  Auto Heal and OK to further improve geometry quality by repairing more geometry defects. After these three basic steps, a significant improvement can be observed in the defect list (the Auto Heal icon will then become  , meaning the model has been improved). User can export the modified geometry back to Designer by clicking.

Note: Click on the remaining defects, CADdoctor will locate them and suggest corresponding fix tools below the working panel.

Moldex3D is pleased to announce that we will be returning to INTERMOLD KOREA 2017, Asia’s leading die and mold exhibition and the largest industry event in Korea. Held together with KOPLAS and HARFKO, INTERMOLD KOREA is the best venue to witness advanced technologies and equipment from around the world.

This year at INTERMOLD KOREA 2017, Moldex3D will demonstrate our latest CAE simulation technologies and showcase current and future industry trends. We cordially invite you to visit our Booth M419 and find out the best solution for you to overcome your daily plastic product design challenges!

Venue

KINTEX Center, Seoul, Korea

Contact

Vera Yeh
verayeh@moldex3d.com
+886-3-5600199 ext. 707

Date | 2016/12/27

Earning Total Savings of $11,500 on Mold Work for LED Products with Moldex3D

Customer Profile

Customer: LMT Products Country: USA Industry: Fence, deck, and railing industries Solution:  Moldex3D eDesign

LMT Mercer Group, Inc., the leading manufacturer of vinyl fence, deck, and railing accessories in the US and Canada, operates three manufacturing plants in New Jersey and Ohio. LMT operates more than 30 state-of-the-art injection molding machines equipped with servo-robotics and nitrogen gas-assist capabilities. It has used Moldex3D for their product development process optimization since 2013. (Source: http://lmtproducts.com/) 

Executive Summary

Two lighting parts, made from the same material, were both produced in the same mold to reduce the costs. However, their sizes were quite different, so unbalanced filling occurred. Through Moldex3D, the other issues, such as sudden spike in clamping tonnage and overworked cooling channels could also be detected. Therefore, optimization on runner/gate and cooling systems were made that resulted in the eliminations of unbalanced filling and sudden tonnage spike, the reductions of both clamping force and cooling time, and the improvements of both cooling efficiency and part flatness. In addition, substantial time and cost savings could be achieved too.

Challenges

• To complete the filling process at the same time for both parts
• To ensure the runner/gate configuration and cooling channel sizes and locations that would not cause excessive warpage on the parts

Solutions

Moldex3D provides the analyses for filling, packing, cooling, and warpage in which the effects of any design changes and modifications in runner/gate and cooling systems on the improvements on filling time, cycle time, cooling efficiency, and part flatness can be observed beforehand.

Benefits

• Succeeded in reducing the clamping tonnage required at the end of packing from 225 ton to 175 ton which reduces costs of the part too due to smaller press size required
• Succeeded in having both parts to be fully filled at 1.28 s; the initial runner and gate design resulted in full filing times of 1.07 s and 1.28 s for the smaller and larger parts, respectively
• Obtained optimized cooling channel design which reduced cycle time through reduced maximum cooling time by 11.99% and made the cooling efficiency difference only 13.759% from 25.452%
• Improved flatness of the smaller part by 2.56% and of the larger part by 6.18%
• Earned total savings of $11,500 for mold work and sampling charges

Case Study

The objectives are to reduce the cost of parts by both reducing the press size required through optimized runner/gate and reducing the cycle time, to keep part flatness within acceptable quality limits, and to accomplish all these goals before the making of the mold so that the tooling and sampling costs could be reduced.

Moldex3D eDesign was utilized to mesh the model which contains two different cavities in one mold; the smaller part was for LED board holder, whereas the larger one was for light reflector. Moldex3D became a powerful tool to detect and identify unbalanced filling through melt front time, sudden spike in tonnage of the clamping force, maximum cooling time, overworked cooling lines, and the Y-displacement for both parts.

The changes include runner layout and cooling system as illustrated and explained in Fig. 1 and Fig. 2.

Fig 1. The original design has the edge gate for the smaller part and jump gate for the larger part (left), while the revised design keeps the jump gate for the larger part but uses the extended jump gate for the smaller part (right).

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Fig 2. Different from the original design (left), the revised design (right) splits the connected loop cooling channel for the larger part’s top and bottom sides and add a cooling channel for the larger part’s bottom side.

As shown by Moldex3D’s simulation results, the smaller part has been fully filled too early compared to the larger part. The revised design makes the flow path for the smaller part longer from its runner and gate design, so its filling time can catch up with the longer filling time of the larger part (Fig. 3).

Fig. 3 The comparison between the melt front time of the original design at 74% filling (top) and the revised design at 96% filling (bottom) shows that the unbalanced filling for both cavities has been solved.

The next result is the cooling time in which the maximum cooling time can be reduced from 21.009 s to 18.489 s via optimized cooling system design. In other words, the cycle time could be reduced as well. The last result is the Y-displacement which represents the part flatness. The original design results in maximum displacements of 0.1981 mm and 0.6985 mm for smaller and larger parts, respectively. Meanwhile, the revised design can reduce the maximum displacements for both smaller and larger parts to 0.1930 mm and 0.6561 mm, successively.

Fig. 4 The distributions of the Y-displacement for both of the smaller and the larger part show that the original design (left) has larger displacement than the revised one (right).

The design revision was verified by the actual injection molded parts. During initial mold sampling, the process conditions from Moldex3D were given to the process engineer. The process engineer made short-shot parts just before the end of the filling. The injection molded short-shot parts has identical short shot locations to the ones in simulation results as shown in Fig. 5.

Fig. 5 The actual injection molded parts for the revised design for larger part (left) and smaller part (right) have identical short shot locations with the simulation result in Fig. 3.

Results

This project was a success in which the objectives of both reducing the part cost and improving the quality of the finished products had been accomplished. The design revision was made by modifying the runner/gate design and optimizing the cooling channel layout before the mold steel was cut and shaped. With the ease of use that Moldex3D offers, various designs were tested quickly to find the best results without having to make expensive changes to the tooling after the fact. By improving the mold and part designs with the assistance of Moldex3D, time to market and tool sampling had been streamlined. Thus, substantial time and cost savings could be achieved as well. Besides, the validation comparing the simulation result with actual injection molded parts showed that both filling results were very identical.

When it comes to new techniques and best practices in plastic injection molding simulation, Moldex3D Users’ Meeting is the place to be. This year Moldex3D Users’ Meeting- Germany 2017 will take place on March 27-28, in Conference Centre Fortress Marienberg in Würzburg.

This event will bring together Moldex3D users, experts and industry peers to network, share best practices for leveraging Moldex3D plastic simulation tools to overcome daily design challenges. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to connect with Moldex3D professionals in your area and explore new solutions to make your simulation workflow more efficient!

Venue

Conference Centre Fortress Marienberg in Würzburg
Address: Oberer Burgweg, 97070 Würzburg, Germany

Contact

e-mail: events@simpatec.com
Tel: +49 241 565 28 28-86

CoreTech System (Moldex3D) is pleased to announce that we will be returning to Anaheim, CA and exhibiting again at PLASTEC West 2017 (Booth #: 4033), one of the largest annual design and manufacturing events from February 7 – 9, 2017.

North America’s Largest Annual Design & Manufacturing Event

PLASTEC West connects you with over 20,000 engineers and executives, as well as hundreds of leading suppliers, across the advanced design and manufacturing spectrum who all understand the value in working together on the industry’s cutting edge.

This your chance to learn from industry luminaries as they present their insights, and find the plastics technology, innovation, and inspiration you should be taking back to the office. It’s three days of industry immersion that plastics professionals simply can’t afford to miss.

Moldex3D cordially invites you to come visit our booth at Booth #: 4033 to discuss the latest molding and simulation technologies and explore the possible solutions to your plastic product design and manufacturing challenges.

Venue

Anaheim Convention Center

Contact

For sales and technical inquiries, please write to sales.us@moldex3d.com
For marketing and event inquires, please write to yvonneliu@moldex3d.com

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เวลา: 09.00-16.00

ในปัจจุบันอุตสาหกรรมแม่พิมพ์ฉีดพลาสติกในประเทศไทยมีการเติบโตอย่างต่อเนื่องในทุกแขนงไม่ว่าจะเป็นอุตสาหกรรมยานยนต์และชิ้นส่วนอุตสาหกรรมเครื่องใช้ไฟฟ้าและอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ อุตสาหกรรมพลาสติกและภาชนะบรรจุภัณฑ์และอื่นๆ อีกทั้งยังมีการแข่งขันที่สูงมากและด้วยสภาพเศรษฐกิจของไทยที่ชะลอตัวเป็นระยะผู้ประกอบการและวิศวกรยิ่งต้องระมัดระวังและต้องปรับปรุงและลดช่องโหว่ที่จะทำให้เกิดกสูญเสียรายได้ให้มากที่สุด การนำเทคโนโลยีใหม่ๆเข้ามาใช้อยู่เสมอจะทำให้อยู่ในตลาดได้อย่างแข็งแกร่งและได้เปรียบในโลกอุตสาหกรรม

การสัมมนาเชิงให้คาปรึกษาในครั้งนี้มีความมุ่งหมายเพื่อที่ให้ ผู้เข้าอบรมสามารถนำเทคโนโลยี CAE หรือ Computer Aided Engineering ที่กำลังเป็นที่สนใจทั่วโลกเพื่อใช้วิเคราะห์ตรวจสอบปัญหาที่อาจจะเกิดขึ้นในกระบวนการฉีดพลาสติกก่อนที่จะออกแบบขั้นสุดท้าย และทำการผลิตแม่พิมพ์จริง โดยเนื้อหาในการสัมมนา เริ่มตั้งแต่หลักการในการนำ CAE ไปใช้งานการอ่านผลและการประยุกต์ใช้ อีกทั้งยังมีการให้คำปรึกษาเกี่ยวกับปัญหาที่อาจจะเกิดขึ้นในกระบวนการฉีดพลาสติกโดยผู้เชี่ยวชาญที่มีประสบการณ์การทำงานมากกว่า 30 ปีจากต่างประเทศ

• วัตถุประสงค์ : เพื่อให้ผู้รับการฝึกอบรมมีความรู้สามารถนาเทคโนโลยี CAE หรือ Computer Aided Engineering สาหรับทาการวิเคราะห์ตรวจสอบปัญหาที่อาจจะเกิดขึ้นในกระบวนการฉีดพลาสติกและนาไปแก้ปัญหาในงานจริงได้
• สมบัติผู้เข้าอบรม : ผู้ที่ปฏิบัติงานเกี่ยวข้องกับการฉีดพลาสติก  และอยู่ในส่วนที่ต้องการความรู้การใช้เทคโนโลยีใหม่เพื่อแก้ปัญหาการฉีดพลาสติก
• นวนผู้เข้าอบรม 40 ท่าน

กำหนดกำร

หมายเหตุ:
ขอให้สถานประกอบการนำชิ้นงานจริงที่มีปัญหาหรือถ้าหากไม่สามารถนาชิ้นงานจริงมาได้ ขอให้นำรูปถ่ายชิ้นงานที่มีปัญหามาแทนเพื่อขอคำปรึกษาหรืออภิปรายกับผู้เชี่ยวชาญจากประเทศไต้หวันในช่วงการให้คำปรึกษาหรือคำแนะนำ (มีของที่ระลึกมอบให้สำหรับสถานประกอบการที่นำชิ้นงานหรือรูปถ่ายมารวมกิจกรรม)

Keynote Speaker

Mr. Paul Tsai

โดยคุณ Paul Tsai ซึ่ง มีประสบการณ์เชี่ยวชาญกว่า 30 ปีอยู่ในวงการอุตสาหกรรมการผลิตรถยนต์ มีความเชี่ยวชาญเฉพาะด้านครอบคลุมทางด้านผลิตภัณฑ์พลาสติก ออกแบบแม่พิมพ์ และการเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพการ ผลิต

และมีประสบการณ์ในการทำงานในด้านอุตสาหกรรมรถยนต์ การออกแบบ และการผลิต และการพัฒนากระบวนการการผลิตเพื่อให้ได้ประสิทธิภาพงานสูงสุด

Venue

สถาบันไทย-เยอรมัน ห้อง A523 ชั้น 5 ตึก A
700/1 หมู่ 1 นิคมอุตสาหกรรมอมตะนคร ถ.บางนา-ตราด กม. 57 ต.คลองตาหรุ อ.เมือง
จ.ชลบุรี 20000

ติดต่อ

สารองที่นั่ง คุณชุลีลักษณ์ : Ms. Chureeluk
โทรศัพท์: 038-930-100 ต่อ 1501-1503 แฟกซ์ 038-215-046
Email: chuleeluk.s@tgi.mail.go.th

English Version

TGI Seminar: CAE Technology Consultancy for Injection Mold and Molding

Event Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Event Time: 09.00-16.00

In recent year, the molding industry has experienced a steady growth in different manufacturing sectors in Thailand, including automotive, electronics, plastic packing industries, etc. However, the competition in each industry sector can be quite high in the current market in Thailand. Due to the recent economic slowdown in Thai market, many companies have become more conservative regarding the investment of a new product development. Thus, the implementation of CAE technology in Thai’s manufacturing sectors has become important when it comes to developing a new product production or evaluating a new processing technology.

The purpose of this seminar is to introduce Moldex3D – the world’s leading CAE analysis for plastic injection molding to the Thai audience. Moldex3D has successfully assisted more than thousands of global leading companies to solve their manufacturing challenges and produce high-quality plastic products. The first half of the seminar, we will focus on the practical applications of using CAE technology in the process of plastic product development. Next, we will invite a keynote speaker with more than 30 years of experience in a first-tier automotive part supplier to share his insightful knowledge and know-how on solving real-world product designs and manufacturing challenges.

• Event Purpose: To learn how to use CAE technology to solve plastic design and manufacturing problems
• Who Should Attend: Professionals involved in plastic injection molding
• Couse Size: 40 attendees max.

Agenda

Note: You are welcome to bring a product sample or pictures of your product to this event, we will have our on-site molding expert to answer your questions or give you advice on how to solve your design problems. (We will provide a small gift for you!)

Keynote Speaker

Mr. Paul Tsai

Mr. Tsai has more than 30 years of experience in automotive manufacturing. His expertise lies in plastic product and mold designs and process optimizations and he also has an extensive background in helping international automotive companies overcome design and manufacturing challenges, and develop new production processes to achieve the highest-quality products.

Venue

Thai-German Institute Room A523 Floor 5 Building A
Address: 700/1 Moo 1 Amata Nakorn Industrial Estate,
Bangna-Trad (57 km) Rd., Klongtamru, Muang, Chonburi 20000

Contact

For registration, please contact Ms. Chureeluk.
Phone: 038-930-100 ต่อ 1501-1503 แฟกซ์ 038-215-046
Email: chuleeluk.s@tgi.mail.go.th

Webinar: Visualize Resin Transfer Molding Behavior Using Advanced 3D CAE Technology

Resin transfer molding (RTM), also known as liquid composite molding, is widely used in fabricating composite parts for a wide range of industries, including marine, aerospace and automotive, etc.
In this webinar, we will demonstrate how Moldex3D’s non-isothermal, true 3D simulation technology can provide in-depth manufacturability insights that will allow manufacturing companies to create lighter and more resilient final RTM parts.

Attend this webinar to learn how Moldex3D can help:

• Accurately predict the resin flowing behavior in the mold, and can be applied to all kinds of fiber mats and complex curved surfaces
• Gain better control of pressure/flow rate and opening/closing of multiple inlets.
• Evaluate permeability of fiber reinforcements.
• Case Studies

Registration

We’re offering two sessions for this webinar, so be sure to attend the one that best fits your schedule! Calculate your time zone by clicking here.