Plastics Injection Engineer Role Overview
The SIMULIA 3DEXPERIENCE Plastics Injection Engineer (IME) Role enables the validation and optimization of plastic part and mold tooling designs by simulating the filling, packing, warpage and mold cooling.
Plastic Injection Engineer brings easy-to-use plastic injection molding simulation software directly to the designers of plastic parts and injection molds. It simulates how melted plastic flows during the injection molding process to predict manufacturing-related defects on plastic parts.
You can quickly evaluate manufacturability while you design, to eliminate costly part redesign, improve part quality, and accelerate time to market. Plastic part designers and product developers can analyze and modify designs at the same time as optimizing for form, fit, and function. Mold tool designers can evaluate and optimize the feed system and cooling circuit designs. Specialist users can link to Structural & Process Apps to tackle advanced workflows.
Cloud-based simulation software
Minimal simulation knowledge is needed and workflows are made easy through a guided simulation assistant. You can leverage runner and cooling layouts created in CATIA Mold & Tooling Designer Apps or import them from any CAD system. Single-cavity, multi-cavity, and family mold layouts, including sprues, runners, and gates can be analyzed to obtain estimated cycle time, clamp tonnage, and shot size. This enables you to optimize feed system design and avoid costly mold rework. Both hot, and cold-runner systems can be analyzed and so can valve gates. Users can analyze simple or complex mold cooling line layouts. This includes mold cooling inserts, optimize cooling system design to minimize cycle times and decrease manufacturing costs and optimize part and mold design, material selection and processing parameters.
This role also supports simulation of advanced molding processes including,
- Insert Overmolding.
- Two-shot Injection.
- Multi-shot Injection.
- Powder Metal Injection Molding
The role benefits from Simulation Data Science capabilities enabling all simulation activities, models, and results to be linked, traced, updated, re-used, and analyzed with ease by all impacted users.
Plastics Injection Engineer Capabilities
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Provide a Robust Engineering Workflow Fully Associative with SOLIDWORKS® 3D CAD
- Connecting SOLIDWORKS® 3D CAD to the cloud-based 3DEXPERIENCE platform enables your team to save and manage your SOLIDWORKS geometry on the platform directly from SOLIDWORKS and share it through a browser.
- Once on the platform, you can easily test SOLIDWORKS geometries with Plastics Injection Engineer relying on full simulation associativity for best-in-class designs simulation workflows.
Solve Complex Plastic Molding Problems
This role also supports simulation of advanced molding processes including:
- Insert Overmolding
- Two-shot Injection
- Multi-shot Injection
- Powder Metal Injection Molding
The role benefits from Simulation Data Science capabilities enabling all simulation activities, models, and results to be linked, traced, updated, re-used, and analyzed with ease by all impacted users.
Minimal simulation knowledge with a guided simulation assistant
- You can leverage runner and cooling layouts created in CATIA Mold & Tooling Designer Apps or import them from any CAD system.
- Single-cavity, multi-cavity, and family mold layouts, including sprues, runners, and gates can be analyzed to obtain estimated cycle time, clamp tonnage, and shot size. This enables you to optimize feed system design and avoid costly mold rework.
- Both hot, and cold-runner systems can be analyzed and so can valve gates. Users can analyze simple or complex mold cooling line layouts. This includes mold cooling inserts, optimize cooling system design to minimize cycle times and decrease manufacturing costs and optimize part and mold design, material selection and processing parameters.
Collaboration is built into the underlying 3DEXPERIENCE
- Data management, collaboration, and communities are all part of the global solution.
- Models built in Plastics Injection Engineer can be shared directly with advanced simulation tools to enable the entire simulation team to collaborate with designers.
- Simulation Results can be easily reviewed by any project stakeholders in the 3DEXPERIENCE dashboard so they become insights for technical and business decision
Plastics Injection Engineer Features
Virtually test the performance of plastic part and mold tooling designs
Connects with CAD & PLM
With Plastics Injection Engineer, users can easily connect with other CAD systems.
- Tight associativity with CATIA and SOLIDWORKS means that simulation and CAD always remain synchronized even after design changes.
- Integration with CATIA Mold & Tooling App to directly access analysis-ready cooling layouts and runner systems.
- Provides access to advanced simulation technology within a consistent and intuitive interface.
Advanced Workflows
Take advantage of Structural and Process Apps to tackle advanced workflows like non-linear multi-scale material modeling and design of experiments (DOE).
- Simple, easy to use interface with a guided simulation assistant to minimize the learning curve.
- Predicts common molding defects including, weld-lines, sink marks, air traps and incomplete filling (short shots).
- Predicts required injection pressures and tool clamping forces, enabling selection of an appropriate injection molding machine.
Simulate the entire process
Simulate filling, packing, mold cooling, and warpage phases of injection-molded plastic products.
- Visualize filling animation.
- Results for pressure, temperatures, shear rates, shear stresses, and many more critical aspects of the manufacturing process.
- Detect weld lines, air traps, and sink marks defects.
- Estimate cooling time.
- Optimize cycle time.
3DEXPERIENCE Works provides a Safe, Social, Connected, Informed and Structured environment for team leaders, project managers and other professionals who want to manage data on the cloud and collaborate without constraints.
Safe: Customer controlled access. Transparent cloud backup. Encrypted communication protocols. Data always safe-no overwrite, no loss of data.
Social: Integrated structured and unstructured collaboration tools enabling social innovation. Collaborate on product design or engage with your stakeholders early in product development.
Connected: Every user always connected to a single, common database. Access data anywhere, anytime, on any device. Review and markup models.
Informed: Choose from the widget library, Create and share Dashboards. Get the latest information about your product development. Always have access to your latest data.
Structured: Zero overhead data management - store and manage data across collaborative spaces, share information in communities. Find indexed data faster by using tags, custom search, etc.