How to improve the efficiency of injection moulding processes

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Institut für Kunststoffverarbeitung (IKV) in Industrie und Handwerk an der Rheinisch-Westf. TH Aachen

Thermoplastic foam injection moulding and integrated metal/plastic injection moulding techniques

Through the increasing integration of different functionalities in plastic products, the level of complexity is also rising. Standard injection moulding processes can only fulfil these requirements to a limited extent. Hence, an increasing number of special processes and process combinations are being developed to enable economical and high-quality production. The speakers at IIMC will take full account of this development in papers that deal with promising special processes such as the thermoplastic foam injection moulding and integrated metal/plastic injection moulding (IMKS) techniques.

Increasing demands on efficiency are also being made on the design of complex plastic products. The invited speakers will show how modern simulation methods help to reduce iterations and prototype trials and increase the performance of new products.

As a strategic industry event, the second IIMC aims to look at the above-mentioned technological complexes not only in isolation. The advancing use of Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) against the background of the "Industry 4.0" initiative makes it possible, more intensively than in the past, to intelligently combine simulation with the complexes of machine and process technology to produce effective manufacturing systems. As a result, inconclusive efficiency assessments of separate complexes are being replaced by an evaluation of the overriding life cycle efficiency, from the very beginning of the product development to the final recycling of the product. IIMC 2015 will thus cover, for the first time in the plastics industry, the use of CPPS on a scientific basis in the field of injection moulding.

In addition to the strategically selected topics and papers, the IIMC will also offer a global, inter-industry networking platform for all companies active in the injection moulding segment.

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