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In high-pressure applications like injection molding, predicting pressure loss throughout the system is crucial for mitigating and diagnosing issues. Maximum pressure often used in simulations falls short; instead, trends and contours of the pressure curve offer essential insights. Injection molding forces plastic into an empty volume, where increasing resistance demands more screw force, potentially causing “flash,” or material leakage onto the mold’s parting plane due to insufficient clamping pressure. Accurately predicting clamping force before production is vital to prevent flashing and to keep machine size and production costs reasonable.

What Attendees Will Learn?

•  Understanding sprue pressure and its trends is crucial for grasping the complexities of the molding process and identifying potential issues.
• Comparing simulated sprue pressure to real molding pressure helps pinpoint discrepancies in modeling, process definitions, and unpredictable variables.
• Predicting clamping force in simulations is essential for troubleshooting discrepancies, alleviating production difficulties, and ensuring accurate clamping tonnage correlation to real molding scenarios.

April has over 20 years of injection molding experience in the automotive industry. She gained extensive knowledge of process development, scientific injection molding and Moldex3D simulation software.

April’s favorite part of being an applications engineer is the consulting, benchmarking, and collaboration with variety of plastic industries, as well as the exponential camaraderie with her team. Virtual modeling of the molding process is an exciting way to empower manufacturers to improve manufacturability and sustainability by fine-tuning designs, selecting recycled materials wisely, and boosting production efficiency and cost-effectiveness.