Injection mould design: Impact on energy efficiency in manufacturing

Abstract

The paper presents a systematic approach for energy efficient engineering of injection mould design. It supports engineers with analysing design outcomes for an energy efficient operation of injection moulds, while the approach needs to guarantee the appropriate final products' quality and assure production process performance over several years of usage. An ICT supported systematic approach is presented that enables engineers to monitor manufacturing processes, learn from past designs and elicit knowledge for designing new injection moulds that can be operated with less energy usage. Gained experience and key results are presented that were collected in automotive plastic part production.