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1. ware package capable of handling co injec tion gas assist and re active injection as well as conventional injection moulding It can deal with filling packing cooling and warping It includes an extensive data bank of plastics materials and has its own built in automatic mesh generators The mesh depends on the way in which the moulding ge ometry 1s represented and there are three ways or styles of working with SIMPOE MOLD E Style is for full 3D analysis It is a solid TIE FE ppFER apg ojat i ereen pi e i i n E i hk all E deb E Pe oe ILI ee Ee eB model mesh of tetra a hedrons C Style is for TTS 2 2D working It repre a sents a notional neutral Displaying the results mid plane between the inner and outer surfaces of a moulded part This is a legacy of the time when 2 4D analysis first collided with 3D CAD models Mid plane models are no longer popular but SIMPOE MOLD includes the technique to give users the widest choice of working methods The third option B Style is expected to be the preferred method for 95 per cent of all moulding projects B Style works with 3D CAD models typically in STL format and uses proprietary SIMPOE technology to mesh both the inner and outer surfaces of the model The meshes do not have to be matched but are integrated by mapping between nodes It is a 2 2D method that works well with relatively thin shell mouldi2. ed and enhanced its web site to provide more practical design information with faster and more intuitive navigation The existing Product Information Centre has now been augmented by three new cen tres The Processing Centre provides de tailed processing information along with simple guides on such topics as injection moulding troubleshooting and machine selection The Quality Centre offers in formation down loads on environmental quality and health and safety policies and ISO certificates And from the Train ing Centre Distrupol offers a wide range of training programmes Topics include polymer performance material selec tion designing with plastics production optimisation industry requirements and much more Other site content includes down loadable presentations and useful stuff for engineers and designers distrupol co DSM Akulon PA6 Technical Center DSM Engineering Plastics has set up a technical centre for its Akulon Polyamide 6 materials on the Omnexus website platform The PA6 Technical Center focuses on creative solutions innovative designs and productivity opportunities that Akulon polyamide 6 offers in the industrial and consumer goods sectors particularly in the automotive electrical and electronic and sports and leisure areas Among the tools for designers and engineers is an interactive part cost optimisation simulator Other features include an extensive application gallery case study sol
3. To eliminate any confusion the PMMDA has been working with the BPF to move this idea forward with the creation of a Small Proc essor Group through collaboration Service engineers safe working procedures This publication was created and adopted by a working group of injection moulding machin ery suppliers Arburg Demag Hamilton Engel Krauss Maffei Negri Bossi and Boy with a view to providing an industry standard by which service engi neers conduct themselves The guide outlines health and safety policy on working hours driver fatigue and mobile phone use in vehicles It covers site arrival and departure proce dures including risk assessment and reporting procedures while on site Risk assessment for service operations personal protection and control of hazards and work at heights are also important issues covered Although created by injection moulding machinery suppliers all PMMDA members have been encouraged to adopt the practices outlined in the document thereby setting a standard for the industry as a whole Other service providers and processors may also benefit from the knowledge and guide lines The 13 page guide is avail able on line at or in hard copy by contacting the PMMDA on 0870 241 1474 May 2006 from both organisations The target membership of this group will be processing companies with a turno ver of less than 1 million The services offered and subscription
4. IEC 27001 formerly BS 7799 offers business a clear way to mitigate risks in information security However with a year like last year that saw the London terrorist bombings hurricanes Katrina and Wilma and a major oil depot explo sion just north of London it s hardly surprising that the broad subjects of risk management disaster recovery and business continuity manage ment moved back on to the business pages of the nation s media Despite this heightened awareness busi nesses are still putting themselves at unnecessary risk by failing to prepare thoroughly for IT or supply chain failure according to a recent study commissioned by BSI in the UK Research shows that many busi nesses know that having standards could help but fail to act accord ingly 87 per cent of senior business decision makers agreed that with increased reliance on out sourcing standards are more important than ever because they enable busi nesses to have confidence in the way sub contractors work Even business disrupting events do not necessarily provoke an urgent response According to a recent survey from the Business Continuity Institute only 40 per cent of City based firms in London invoked a business continuity plan as a result of the attacks of July 7 2005 Are you ready For more infor mation on BSI s work in risk man agement visit lwww bsi global where you can down load a copy of The Risk Manage ment Universe A Guided
5. Mold Masters Mold Masters has completely rede signed its web site but you will need to install the Macromedia Flash Player 8 before you use it Using the URL of the Mold Masters news page announcing the new site it proved impossible to get in without the latest Flash player It is difficult to imagine a more unwelcoming experience Key site sections include product solutions case studies and the customer support centre Tools include Mason Pinder Toolmakers The new site is driven by a content management system which ensures easy and instant updating whenever there is new or changed material to be added Site visitors can find the latest www polymer age co uk the Merlin on line design and ordering system and the Quote Assistant Product CAD drawings can be down loaded in 2D and 3D formats and you can also access the Mold Masters Design Bulletin British Plastics amp Rubber LAST year the PMMDA announced its intention to offer small process ing companies the opportunity to benefit from being a member of an industry organisation The aim was to attract small companies who were not already members of other plastics organisations and who believed they were too small or too busy to consider membership of such an organisation or that the membership subscriptions were too expensive At the time the British Plastics Federation expressed concern over this action as it saw itself as the representative of UK processors
6. Tour an information leaflet describing a new book that brings together leading experts from various risk management fields to describe current best practice and point to future developments This article has been reproduced by kind permission of BSI Group To read it in full please visit BusinessStandards co The Polymer Machinery Manufacturers amp Distributors Association Managing machinery safety in small plastics factories The Health amp Safety Execu tive in consultation with the Plastics Processors Health amp Safety Liaison Committee of which the PMMDA is a member publishes a number of information sheets to help guide plastics industry produc ers in better health and safety management One such publi cation is Managing Machinery Safety in Small Plastics Fac tories The publication outlines the necessity to actively manage safety to prevent acci dents and describes a simple system for doing so Use of such a system complies with regulations 5 and 6 of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 PUWER 98 which related to the maintenance and inspec tion of machinery safeguards The Processing Fact Sheet covers why accidents happen when using plastics machinery as well as what you need to do to protect your work force Since 1992 all machinery supplied into the UK market should comply with the Machinery Directive and have sufficient safeguarding facilities in place to protect the us
7. and flow rate figures to suit a specific machine You can also change temperature and fill time values and toggle options like co injection and fibre orientation in and out with a click of the mouse You can also define www polymer age co uk SOFTWARE E injection velocity and pres sure profiles by entering co ordinates in a table or using the mouse to drop points on a graph Cooling conditions are handled in the same way Candidates for change include coolant tempera ture and flow rate and the mould open time Now choose one or more injec tion points by clicking on the model The point will snap to the nearest node on the mesh Gates can be valved or open You have already done enough for a basic analysis or you can go on at this point to model feed systems and cooling channels using beam ele ments Running the analysis is just a matter of clicking an icon and selecting the type flow pack cool or warp You can analyse a single project or batch a number of projects to run overnight or at the weekend for example When the analysis runs a DOS style window opens to show the progress through the various stages This window closes automatically when analysis is complete Now read in the results file and the display defaults to a colour shaded plot of time at the melt front As before you can rotate pan and zoom to examine every aspect of the part And if you want to use it you have a great deal of control over
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9. E SOFTWARE SIMPOE sets its sights moulding on mainstream RT deals with imponderables things s we sense or feel but can t quite de fine Moulding on the other hand is about specifics about the unambiguous Specific shapes and sizes specific material characteristics specific temperature regimes This is the territory of science and engineer ing If there is any remaining tendency to think of moulding as an art it is only because the science has not fully broken through into industrial practice The decline of moulding art has been a gradual process It had to be It depended on advances in many different fields On new mathematical methods on better and standardised property testing on improved understanding of the very complex behaviour of plastics and on cheap and commonplace computing The writing was on the wall for moulding art from the moment nearly 30 years ago now that computer simulation of the mould ing process arrived From that moment the challenge was to calculate rather than intuit to simulate instead of experiment Then it was controversial now it is not Many thou sands of moulded parts have been designed and manufactured this way the world over The track record puts the value of computer moulding simulation virtual moulding be yond reasonable dispute And yet there is a paradox Although ac ceptance is widespread use is not universal Far from it in fact There are no published f
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12. er The information sheet gives clear details on how you can prevent accidents in your own factory by assessing risks possibly created by your own work force All this may sound daunting for a small company without the benefit of specialist staff but the 15 sheets available from the HSE provide the conclusions of generic risk assessments They detail acceptable safeguarding requirements contain check lists and describe safe setting procedures where relevant To view all the free leaf lets available for the Plastics Industry visit k pubns plasindx ht 0870 241 1474 0870 241 1475 info pmmda org uk W www pmmda org uk PO Box 2539 Rugby Warwickshire CV23 9SG www polymer age co uk 35
13. igures for the market penetration of moulding The user interface Files system Window Operation Window Display Window Model view icon tool bar Tool text menu SimpoeMY F ll_Ver ion R1 0 20057 6 30 over C Styte 2 5 D E Style Full 3D SIMPOE MOLD The Professional CAE Software www ampoe mold com Simpoe Technology Inc Girpudaticn In Melding Proceres Of Engrasriig Set the Reeult Display Attrbutee Model properties setting tool bar Input setting tool bar Screen coordinate of cursor location 32 Set Change proper language text mode simulation but most estimates put the figure very low at probably less than 10 per cent So simulation has yet to be democratised For the most part it is the domain of the bigger and more sophisticated companies Many others who make use of simulation do it at one remove They rely on suppliers consultants universities and even OEMs to do the work It is expedient but it is insecure Many are uncomfortably aware that it is core business and they should be in control of it Add to that the realisation that unsophisticated operations can no longer make money in developed high wage economies and you have a case for change Democratise virtual moulding It is that case that market opportunity that has drawn in the latest player in moulding simulation software It is the avowed aim of the French company SIMPOE to democra tise virtual mouldi
14. ity runner and cooling channels can be toggled in and out of visibility These functions are accessed by a tool bar above the display window To the left are two further windows for managing files and operations The boundary between the display and management win dows cannot be re sized by dragging but the ratio of space allocated to each can be toggled between two settings by double clicking in the display window At the bottom of the screen is a multi purpose status bar and at the far left are the all important tool bars for setting the inputs running the analysis and displaying the results The meanings of the tool bar icons are fairly clear and any doubt is dispelled by mouse over tool tips To set up a simulation all you have to do is work down the tool bar icons in sequence The first step is to select your moulding material The database includes generics as well some 5 000 specific grades Narrow the range by selecting a generic first then pick a specific grade from a drop down list Click the Update button to confirm that material in the input conditions Next select the coolant and the mould material Again there are databas es and defaults and you can also define your own materials With the materials selected you now have the opportunity to review and adjust the set tings for flow and pack analysis The options are extensive but all are supplied with default values You may want to change the maximum pressure
15. levels have been set to reflect this The group will be run by the BPF and supported by the PMMDA with the PMMDA providing Small Proc essor Group members with infor mation and support on machinery health and safety energy efficiency etc The PMMDA will also offer updates of an informal nature on machinery related issues which may affect or concern processors The BPF will be offering a range PMMDA UPDATE PMMDA and BPF to set up support group for small processors of services and representation in line with its ability to support all UK processors Further ben efits would also be gained from the social and business network ing opportunities offered by both organisations It is hoped that by working in this way the two organisations will form a closer partnership to benefit all members Further details of the Small Proc essor Group can be obtained from the British Plastics Federation on 020 7457 5000 or PMMDA on 0870 2411474 ommda org uk It s a risky business but you can manage it MANAGING risk is becoming an increasingly important discipline for businesses Risk has always been a part of business Whether making an investment in a new technology or taking on a new supplier there is an element of risk in more or less every business deci sion Standards have traditionally been used as part of the tool kit to reduce risk ISO 14001 for exam ple helps companies manage envi ronmental risks while BS ISO
16. lighting colours and shading You can also animate the displays or freeze them at any intermediate stage by means of a slider control Ben e US h a Extensive results The result set is extensive For flow analysis the plots include times temperatures mid average bulk melt front increase pressures shear stresses and rates volume shrinkage and cooling time A gate location priority index suggests an optimum injection position and the plots can be overlaid with indicators for weld lines air traps velocity vectors and fibre orientations in the skin and core regions Finally you will want to record your results and share them with clients and partners in the project development chain SIMPOE MOLD includes a basic report generator that com bines the analysis log file with your preamble and comments plus your own selection of the available graphs and results plots Choosing these is just a matter of clicking the appropri ate selection boxes The report is output in HTML format which means that it can be read by anyone who has a web browser To fulfil its mission to democratise mould ing simulation SIMPOE MOLD must be easy for plastics savvy people to learn and use I found I was able to get results straight out of the box and with barely a glance at the user manual I would have had to put in more work though before I could 34 model feed systems and cooling 33 E SOFTWARE SOFTWARE DIRECTORY MANUFACTURING MANA
17. ng to make it something that almost every plastics player does The SIMPOE MOLD software itself is not new but it has not been commercialised worldwide before SIMPOE the name stands for simu lation in moulding processes of engineering was founded in 1995 and grew out of work by Dr Shiaw Yuh Chiou and his development team at the Hang Shing National University in Taiwan The software made its mark in Asia particu larly among automotive suppliers but has been virtually unknown in Europe The catalyst was Alain Dubois a French citizen with Asian origins Dubois has a mission to democratise to convert software from elite technique to industrial tool He was instrumental in the development of the Cosmos mechanical analysis and EFD Labs computational fluid ais dynamics systems and saw an opportunity in SIMPOE to create an easy to use and af fordable moulding simulator for the mainstream market The f Tapias materials m eni database Scale meter ee e www polymer age co uk Clive Maier tries out a full facility moulding simulator from Taiwan via Paris that sets out to make moulding simulation a tool for everybody Together with Thierry Leroy who played a leading role in developing Parametric Tech nology worldwide Dubois and Chiou set up SIMPOE headquarters in France towards the end of 2004 SIMPOE MOLD itself is a modular soft ee ll Tee ee Shih hd British Plastics amp Rubber
18. ngs having a large aspect ratio Most mouldings are designed this way B Style does away with any need to work on the model geometry Users can take the part designer s CAD model and get straight into meshing and analysis Let s see how that works Start with STL The first step is to import the CAD geometry by reading in an STL file SIMPOE MOLD can also accept geometries in NASTRAN ANSYS and ProE formats This brings up a mesh generation dialogue where you can accept default parameters or set your own values for memory size and maximum and minimum mesh size As always you have to set the units for the dimension less STL file A geometric approximation value controls meshing in curved regions and is easily set by a fine to coarse slider Finite element cor rection is available to avoid over constrained elements but it is not normally needed and defaults to off Then just click a button to generate the mesh automatically The next thing you will see is the imported meshed model displayed within the SIMPOE MOLD graphical user interface If software is to be simple and intuitive to use the interface is all important so it is worth spending some May 2006 time on this Most of the screen is taken up by a display window where the model can be panned zoomed rotated auto rotated or set to a variety of standard views The model can be shown shaded meshed outlined or as combinations of these Mould elements like the cav
19. or vacuum former working in the packaging industry this is the product for you It will help you save time and money and put you where you deserve to be In control of your business A listing in the Software Directory costs 140 per program per year Call Gavin on 01403 741159 for details 34 channels or fully understand all the parameters and options The software passed the usability test but I would not recommend my test approach for industrial use Opti mising moulds and mouldings is mis sion critical work and it makes sense to invest a little time and effort in learning the finer points of the software To help with that SIMPOE MOLD comes with sample models and meshes a basic animated browser based tutorial and a 142 page user manual that is certainly serviceable but could perhaps benefit from further development and a tidying up of the text The SIMPOE company is a little over a year old and is based in the eastern suburbs of Paris near Marne la Valle and EuroDisney It also has offices in Taiwan and Italy and is setting up net works of value added resellers Further support will come from certified train ing centres and consulting partners SIMPOE is not currently represented in the UK but is open to approaches and in the meantime what could be better than a little training in Paris What s New on the Web by Clive Maier cmaier btconnect com Distrupol Polymer distributor Distrupol has upgrad
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