Making Injection Molding More Efficient

When it comes to injection molding, traditional manufacturing methods involve a very calculated process that requires molders to re-validate parts every time a mold is going to run in a different machine. This has become a major design headache for device makers, especially for those creating high-precision devices. This re-validation requirement was costing device manufacturers millions of dollars every year and would often lead to weeks or even months of machine downtime. This would often result in lost revenues for both the molders and original equipment manufacturers. That is until recently, when a group of medical device equipment manufacturers set out to design a more-efficient part development and validation process for injection molding that can be transferable between different machines. This new process was able to execute a real-world proof-of-concept event that could enable molders to replicate transferable plastic conditions that can completely eliminate the need to 100% re-validate the tool every time it is moved to a new machine, MD+DI has been told. Using this reduced PQ verification run, molders could potentially save millions of dollars every year, while also reducing risk based on the confirmation of repeatable statistical results. To better understand the significance of this new process, MD+DI reached out to Scott Scully, a master molder and plastics veteran for more than 39 years. Scully has spent the last 17 years working for Terumo Cardiova...
Source: MDDI - Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tags: MD & M Minneapolis Molding Source Type: news