The advantages of VARIMOS® are:
- Realization of the required part quality
- Quantitative optimization of any user-defined dimensions in both the simulation and the real injection moulded part
- Reduction of iterations during mould production leading to a cost and time optimized part development
- Simplification of the process setup
- Total monitoring and documentation of each injection moulding cycle
VARIMOS® is a powerful combination of injection moulding simulation and knowledge based methods for process optimization. VARIMOS® is a result of a research project* with partners from ten European countries. It was funded by the European Commission.
You can download the product overview of VARIMOS® here as a pdf-document.____________________________________________________________
The design of injection moulded parts with the aid of simulation leads to significant improvements of the development process. Obstacles during the processing of the part can be identified and corrected already during the design phase in the CAD model. Necessary modifications are done in the virtual part, which is cost-saving and can be performed more easily and faster compared to changes in steel.
Robust injection moulding process against changes
The idea of the new product VARIMOS is to expand and improve the possibilities of injection moulding simulation. The target is to optimize both the injection moulded part and the injection moulding process on a virtual level using VARIMOS®. This results not only in a part meeting all defined quality criteria but also in a process, which is economically optimized leading to a maximum of productivity. Furthermore the injection moulding process becomes robust against changes of the production conditions such as variations of material properties, mould wear, ambient temperature etc.
Optimization by DOE
VARIMOS® works with a virtually performed Design of Experiment (DOE) and its virtual execution. During these simulated experiments different process and part parameters are varied such as the local wall thickness distribution and the gating point. These different sets of parameters are simulated using Cadmould 3D-F. Afterwards the simulation results are evaluated using a mathematical optimizer determining one set of parameters, which is optimal concerning quality and efficiency.
During the development of VARIMOS® the core competence of Simcon in the area of simulation was combined with the know-how of Dr. Gierth Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, Aachen, Germany, in the area of process optimization. The result of this cooperation is a today unique program for the virtual and real part and process optimization for the economical production of injection moulded parts.
*VARIMOS
® is based on results of the research project „VIM“ (Project number NMP2-CT-2004-505718), which was funded by the European Commission. VIM was a cooperation of research partners from 10 European countries.
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