Application Areas - CAE - PLASTIC FLOW ANAYLSIS

I-DEAS Part Advisor I-DEAS® Part Adviser™ addresses key manufacturing concerns up-front in the preliminary design stage of plastic parts, and offers practical advice for identified problems. Designers get rapid feedback on how design modifications to wall thickness, gate locations, materials, or geometric changes can affect the manufacture of their plastic part. Also, I-DEAS Part Adviser provides precise information on the location of weld lines and air traps as well as the filling pattern, pressure, and temperature distributions in the part cavity. I-DEAS MPI/Flow I-DEAS® MPI/Flow predicts the flow of plastic throughout the filling of the injection molding cycle to ensure that acceptable quality parts are designed for manufacture. Using I-DEAS MPI/Flow, customers can refine the part and mold design, and material and processing conditions to achieve the optimum balance between quality, cost, and time. I-DEAS MPI/Cool Mold cooling analysis helps the user optimize the mold and cooling circuit design to achieve uniform mold cooling within a minimum cycle time.Leading manufacturers and plastics processors around the world rely on I-DEAS® MPI/Cool to reduce their part cycle time and lower production costs, without compromising part quality.Using I-DEAS MPI/Cool to trial alternatives, users can rapidly evaluate several mold designs. No longer is it necessary to rely on rules of thumb gained over years of experience to establish cooling circuit location and size, coolant types, mold and insert geometry, flow rates, and inlet temperatures. I-DEAS MPI/Warp I-DEAS® MPI/Warp enables industry to understand the causes of warpage in plastic injection molded parts, predict where it will occur, and optimize design, material and processing to control part warpage before mold building.With I-DEAS MPI/Warp, even the most demanding application requiring high dimensional stability, excellent visual appearance and accurate fit with mating components, can be produced to quality, time and budgetary specifications.