scholarly journals Injection Molding Process Control of Servo–Hydraulic System

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Chun-Ying Lin ◽  
Fang-Cheng Shen ◽  
Kuo-Tsai Wu ◽  
Huei-Huang Lee ◽  
Sheng-Jye Hwang

The present study constructs a servo–hydraulic system to simulate the filling and packing processes of an injection molding machine. Experiments are performed to evaluate the velocity and position control of the system in the filling stage and the pressure control in the packing stage. The results demonstrate that the proposed system meets the required performance standards when operated with the proportional-integral–derivative (PID) controller under a sampling frequency of 1000 Hz.

2013 ◽  
Vol 315 ◽  
pp. 582-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasuha Sa'ude ◽  
M. Ibrahim ◽  
Wahab Saidin

This paper presents the development of a new polymer matrix composite (PMC) feedstock material by the injection molding machine. The material consists of iron powder filled in an acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) and surfactant powder (binder) material. In this study, the effect of powder loading and binder content on the mechanical properties was investigated experimentally. The detailed formulations of compounding ratio by Brabender Mixer and injection molding machine of the sample specimen was used with various combinations of the new PMC material. Based on the result obtained, it was found that, higher powder loading of iron filler affected the hardness, tensile and flexural strength of PMC material. With 32% iron powder loading in ABS composites increase the flexural force, maximum stress and force of PMC material through an injection molding process.


2009 ◽  
Vol 87-88 ◽  
pp. 64-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pan Pan Zhang ◽  
Peng Cheng Xie ◽  
Dai Hua ◽  
Wei Min Yang

The plastic injection molding is widely used for the manufacturing of complicated-shaped and high value-added products. The plastic injection molding machine is the most important equipment for the industry. This paper focuses on the mold separation (MS) of the injection molding machines. The characteristics of the MS of injection molding machine with different clamping units are systemically analyzed, the five-hinge joint-double toggle clamping unit and the direct hydraulic pressure clamping unit included. The study points out there are several typical differences between the different clamping units. Meanwhile, it shows there is a linear relation between the MS value and the product weight, and explains why the MS signal can be used to control the injection molding process.


2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Kanaga Lakshmi ◽  
D. Manamalli ◽  
M. Mohamed Rafiq

Good control of plastic melt temperature for injection molding is very important in reducing operator setup time, ensuring product quality, and preventing thermal degradation of the melt. The controllability and set points of barrel temperature also depend on the precise monitoring and control of plastic melt temperature. Motivated by the practical temperature control of injection molding, this paper proposes MPC and IMC based control scheme. A robust system identification and control methodology is developed which uses canonical varieties analysis for identification and model predictive control for regulation. The injection molding process consists of three zones and the mathematical model for each of the zone is different. The control output for each zone controller is assigned a weight based on the computed probability of each model and the resulting action is the weighted average of the control moves of the individual zone controllers. Keywords: Injection-Molding Machine (IMM), IMC Control, Temperature Control.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 4932-4937

Injection molding is one of the major manufacturing processes for thermoplastic polymers. In injection molding machine, process variables play a very important role in generating defects in products. In the present paper manufacturing of ball point pen is taken up to investigate the prevention of defects through design and controlling various process parameters. Two molds are designed and fabricated specially for this experimental work. The analysis showed that the defect occurrence has close relation with pressure, speed and the temperature of the injection molding machine in addition to the basic design of the mold. The paper suggests preventive actions for the defects like flash, burn marks, short shot, shrinkage, weld line, warpage and sink mark. The preventive actions were successfully implemented in manufacturing the ball point pen.


2009 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Arrillaga ◽  
A. M. Zaldua ◽  
R. M. Atxurra ◽  
A. S. Farid ◽  
A. S. Farid

Abstract In order to fill the mold in a rubber injection molding process, it is necessary to inject the material into the closed mold. Rubber is usually injected under ram speed control, but it can be also injected under pressure control. In the present study, we have recorded the signals of pressure at three points during the filling of a spiral shape part. The behaviors of two rubber compounds have been studied using a variety of combinations of process conditions (including mold temperature, mass temperature, ram speed and injection molding with and without pressure holding stage). In all conditions, the transducer located in proximity to the gate exhibits pressure decay at the last stage of mold filling. Initial CAE simulations have been carried out using Moldflow software to check the capability of this sort of software to calculate pressure decay during the filling stage.


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