Affiliation:
1. Malaviya National Institute of Technology
2. Poornima College of Engineering
Abstract
In the present era, competition gets tougher; there is more pressure on manufacturing sectors to improve quality and customer satisfaction while decreasing cost and increasing productivity. These can be achieved by using modern quality management systems and process improvement techniques to reduce the process variability and driven waste within manufacturing process using effective application of statistical tools. Taguchi technique is well known technique to solve industrial problems. This technique is fast and can pinpoint the chief causes and variations. Plastic injection molding is suitable for mass production articles since complex geometries can be obtained in a single production step. The difficulty in setting optimal process conditions may cause defects in parts, such as shrinkage and warpage. In this paper, optimal injection molding conditions for minimum shrinkage were determined by the Taguchi design of experiment (DOE) approach. Polypropylene (PP) was injected in circular shaped specimens under various processing parameters: melt temperature, injection pressure, packing pressure and packing time. S/N ratios were utilized for determining the optimal set of parameters. According to the results, 2400 C of melt temperature, 75 MPa of injection pressure, 50 MPa of packing pressure and 15 sec. of packing time gave minimum shrinkage of 0.951% for PP. Statically the most significant parameter was melt temperature for the PP. Injection pressure had the least effect on the shrinkage. The defect rate was reduced from 14% to 3%.
Publisher
Trans Tech Publications, Ltd.
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