Scientific Injection Molding

Scientific Injection Molding

The term scientific injection molding (SIM) is becoming a buzzword in the industry. How do you differentiate between true SIM and loosely used terminology? It comes down to data collection, machine performance, processes, material characteristics, and how they influence one another. SIM gives us the ability to identify flaws in the entire process of molding a part and allows us to solve the root cause rather than try to work around it. An important difference to realize is that scientific molding does not equal scientific processing. There are multiple key components in a well-developed SIM process including:

Mold Design
Part Design
Polymer Properties
Processing
Press Performance
Material/part validation through testing and analysis.