Rapid tooling (RT) and additive manufacturing (AM) are currently being used in several parts of industry, particularly in the development of new products. The demand for timely deliveries of low-cost products in a variety of geometrical patterns is continuing to increase year by year. Increased demand for low-cost materials and tooling, including RT, is driving the demand for plastic and rubber products, along with engineering and product manufacturers. The development of AM and RT technologies has led to significant improvements in the technologies, especially in testing performance for newly developed products prior to the fabrication of hard tooling and low-volume production. On the other hand, the rapid heating cycle molding (RHCM) injection method can be implemented to overcome product surface defects generated by conventional injection molding (CIM), since the surface gloss of the parts is significantly improved, and surface marks such as flow marks and weld marks are eliminated. The most important RHCM technique is rapid heating and cooling of the cavity surface, which somewhat improves part quality while also maximizing production efficiencies. RT is not just about making molds quickly; it also improves molding productivity. Therefore, as RT can also be used to produce products with low-volume production, there is a good potential to explore RHCM in RT. This paper reviews the implementation of RHCM in the molding industry, which has been well established and undergone improvement on the basis of different heating technologies. Lastly, this review also introduces future research opportunities regarding the potential of RT in the RHCM technique.
Injection molding process is well known in plastic molding industries. The development of this process had causes the materials used to mold plastic product to increase. However, this downside of this large amount of plastic consumption also leads to the fact that plastic waste fills the landfill. This cause researches on recycling plastic to increase. Even though injection molding process has many advantages, but the occurrence of defects on plastic part molded is one of the most important issues to be resolved. Warpage defect is one of the defect that normally occurred on molded part. This paper presents a review of the current research on the outlook of injection molding process and the effect of parameter processing on plastic molded part. The effect of parameter processing on mechanical properties of plastic mold parts with a mixture of virgin and recycled material has been numerously studied. However, studies on the physical appearance and quality of plastic mold parts by a mixture of virgin and recycled material have yet to be explored.
Plastic product are commonly produced using an injection molding process. A large amount of product can produce within a very short time. One of the defect that often being encountered in the production is warpage. By determine the appropriate parameter setting by using optimisation method, the quality of the moulded part can be improve. The warpage can be minimise but difficult to eliminate. The part can be smaller than the actual size cause by the warpage. Due to this defect will cause the plastic part difficult to be assembled. Considering the increasing application of these thermoplastic materials, the use of recycled polymers has increased too. Environmental issues, the subsequent tendency to save resources and the high costs of polymers have made the recycling an inevitable option. This study provides a scientific knowledge that will be useful to plastic manufacturing industries in injection moulding process especially by using virgin and recycle material. The parameter that being significant from the studied that been review were mostly melt temperature, packing time, cooling time and packing pressure.
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