Grand Dynasty Industrial Co., Ltd has been the worldwide provider of services from plastic injection molding, mold production to product design behind several well-known automotive and IT manufacturers. The main products of Grand Dynasty are high-priced precision parts, including automobile parts, halogen lamp base, and athletic equipment. Most of these parts are made of certain high-performance plastic materials, such as PEI, PPS, and PEEK. (Source: https://www.grand888.com/)
Challenge
Product life management is progressively emphasized nowadays, and design and prototyping schedule are tightened correspondingly.
Solution
For runner system design, Moldex3D can catch flow balance and optimize gate number and its location. For the cavity function, Moldex3D can predict the filling pattern such as weld line, air trap and short shot. For the cooling system, users can evaluate the preferred cooling layout and avoid unacceptable heat accumulation in the mold.
Benefits
Moldex3D helps detect problems instantly and propose solutions; therefore, reduces the chances of errors.
Low labor cost in mainland China has put the plastics industry in jeopardy. Dr. Lawrence Lin, the President of Grand Dynasty, receiving his PhD of polymer plastics engineering in the University of Massachusetts, was aware of the importance of simulation software to the molding industry when he was still in the US; after back to Taiwan, the success stories about Moldex3D made him notice this first true 3D simulation and analysis CAE software for injection molding, and soon Grand Dynasty began a cooperative relationship with CoreTech. “Moldex3D has a very complete technical support system, and its simulation analysis results are precise. Moreover, Moldex3D is easy to learn and to use, engineers without a CAD background become familiar with the software really fast.” Dr. Lin praised.
Product life management (PLM) is progressively emphasized nowadays, and design and prototyping schedule are tightened correspondingly. Moldex3D is a good solution for mold designers. For runner system design, Moldex3D can be used in catching flow balance and optimizing gate number and its location. For the cavity function, Moldex3D is capable of predicting the filling pattern such as weld line, air trap and short shot…etc., and more, providing advices on part revision. For the cooling system, users can evaluate the preferred cooling layout and avoid unacceptable heat accumulation in the mold by using Moldex3D.
Benefits of utilizing Moldex3D
A remote controller’s upper cover (Fig. 1) has the problems of flow balance and weld lines. By the efficiency of Moldex3D in modeling and calculation, runner system revision and filling result can be evaluated in minutes (Fig. 2).
|
|
|
Fig. 1 Actual sample |
Fig. 2 Moldex3D filling analysis |
A remote controller’s bottom cover (Fig. 3) needs to be assembled with the prior one. Via Moldex3D-Warp, the calculated deformation of both parts can be exported as STL or mesh models into the most popular CAD systems and we can take this topic into account in advance (Fig. 4).
|
|
|
Fig. 3 Actual sample |
Fig. 4 Moldex3D Warp |
A chassis (Fig. 5) has serious heat accumulation in core platen. By utilizing Moldex3D-Cool, a preferred cooling system is concluded before mold tooling, which effectively decreases the cycle time and mold revisions (Fig. 6).
|
|
|
Fig. 5 Actual sample |
Fig. 6 Moldex3D Cool |
A LCD monitor (Fig. 7) base cover might have hesitation and air traps problems. The hesitation and air traps might occur in grilled regions correspondingly. Under the efficient assistance of Moldex3D-Flow, these possible defects can be avoided and cleared up (Fig. 8).
|
|
|
Fig. 7 Actual sample |
Fig. 8 Moldex3D Flow |
Grand Dynasty Industrial’s cooperative relationship with Coretech
For Grand Dynasty Industrial, the advantages of adopting Moldex3D are that it can detect problems instantly and propose solutions, therefore reduces the chances of errors. Consequently, more clients are putting their trust in the company. “One of our clients was only asking for the price, but in addition to that information; we also gave him a complete analysis report using Moldex3d. We received the order the next day.” Dr. Lin said in content.
Even now Taiwan’s plastic industry has to face the critical fighting against the low-cost production from mainland China. Why can Grand Dynasty still maintain an enviable business growth? The combination of Grand Dynasty and Moldex3D did it; we made the possibilities come true.