Design, Analysis and Fabrication of Safe Holder and Cam Dies in Injection Molding

Abstract

Injection molding is one of the very significant methodologies in the plastic manufacturing industry. Production of any shape in the injection molding, mold with cavity must require. For this mold making three phases were involved in this project starting from design, analysis, manufacturing respectively. The objective of this project is to introduce detailed steps on design mold and using the simulation software to analyze the material flow, temperature and pressure characteristics of the product. The product designed and analyzed for this project is SAFE HOLDER and CAM. The manufacturing of mold is done by using advanced machinery such as CNC. The design and analysis of this product and mold were made by the designing analysis software CATIA V5, ANSYS 15.0, which is then stimulated by the use of Fluid Flow (Fluent) tool. This project was very useful in knowing the fluid characteristic behavior subjected to flowing inside the mold and also observed the variation of values with respect to given values at each stage. In this project, the analysis performed with taking polypropylene as a fluid from propylene polymer and steel as solid material for the die with inlet values are 230℃ temperature and 15m/s velocity.