Identifying the Critical Moulding Machine Parameters Affecting Injection Moulding Process by Basic Statistical Process Control Tools

In injection moulding the processing condition have critical effect on the quality of the moulded products. Since there are many process parameters involved in an injection moulding process, identification of the critical parameters are very important. Simple techniques like the “Seven Basic Quality...

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Main Authors: Sokkalingam, Rajalingam, Bono, A., bin Sulaiman, J.
Other Authors: Dr. Ujjal Kumar Ghosh
Format: Conference Paper
Published: CUTSE 2011 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40167
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author Sokkalingam, Rajalingam
Bono, A.
bin Sulaiman, J.
author2 Dr. Ujjal Kumar Ghosh
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Sokkalingam, Rajalingam
Bono, A.
bin Sulaiman, J.
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description In injection moulding the processing condition have critical effect on the quality of the moulded products. Since there are many process parameters involved in an injection moulding process, identification of the critical parameters are very important. Simple techniques like the “Seven Basic Quality Control Tools (7 QC Tools)” can provide a very valuable and cost effective way to meet these objectives. This paper presents a case study for identifying the critical factors and its level affecting a plastic injection moulding process of a plastic cell phone shell call Front Cover by deployed some of the 7 QC Tools. The Pareto diagram help to identify that the highest defects (30%) was contributed due to shrinkage. The shrinkage defect cause the length and width of the Front Cover below the given specification limit. The Course and Effect diagram help to decide to select the mould temperature, injection pressure and screw rotation speed as the machine input parameters (factors) and the length and width dimensions of the Front Cover as the response of the experiment. A full factorial design of experiments was conducted to study the effect of three injection moulding process parameters versus shrinkage defect. Finally, the critical process parameters and its level influencing the shrinkage were identified and the confirmation run shows that the shrinkage defect eliminated to zero percentage.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-401672023-01-27T05:52:11Z Identifying the Critical Moulding Machine Parameters Affecting Injection Moulding Process by Basic Statistical Process Control Tools Sokkalingam, Rajalingam Bono, A. bin Sulaiman, J. Dr. Ujjal Kumar Ghosh Dr.Nagarajan Dr.M.V.Prasana Dr.Armar Sahed Shrinkage Parameters Process Response Moulding Dimension Component Quality Control In injection moulding the processing condition have critical effect on the quality of the moulded products. Since there are many process parameters involved in an injection moulding process, identification of the critical parameters are very important. Simple techniques like the “Seven Basic Quality Control Tools (7 QC Tools)” can provide a very valuable and cost effective way to meet these objectives. This paper presents a case study for identifying the critical factors and its level affecting a plastic injection moulding process of a plastic cell phone shell call Front Cover by deployed some of the 7 QC Tools. The Pareto diagram help to identify that the highest defects (30%) was contributed due to shrinkage. The shrinkage defect cause the length and width of the Front Cover below the given specification limit. The Course and Effect diagram help to decide to select the mould temperature, injection pressure and screw rotation speed as the machine input parameters (factors) and the length and width dimensions of the Front Cover as the response of the experiment. A full factorial design of experiments was conducted to study the effect of three injection moulding process parameters versus shrinkage defect. Finally, the critical process parameters and its level influencing the shrinkage were identified and the confirmation run shows that the shrinkage defect eliminated to zero percentage. 2011 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40167 CUTSE 2011 restricted
spellingShingle Shrinkage
Parameters
Process
Response
Moulding
Dimension
Component
Quality Control
Sokkalingam, Rajalingam
Bono, A.
bin Sulaiman, J.
Identifying the Critical Moulding Machine Parameters Affecting Injection Moulding Process by Basic Statistical Process Control Tools
title Identifying the Critical Moulding Machine Parameters Affecting Injection Moulding Process by Basic Statistical Process Control Tools
title_full Identifying the Critical Moulding Machine Parameters Affecting Injection Moulding Process by Basic Statistical Process Control Tools
title_fullStr Identifying the Critical Moulding Machine Parameters Affecting Injection Moulding Process by Basic Statistical Process Control Tools
title_full_unstemmed Identifying the Critical Moulding Machine Parameters Affecting Injection Moulding Process by Basic Statistical Process Control Tools
title_short Identifying the Critical Moulding Machine Parameters Affecting Injection Moulding Process by Basic Statistical Process Control Tools
title_sort identifying the critical moulding machine parameters affecting injection moulding process by basic statistical process control tools
topic Shrinkage
Parameters
Process
Response
Moulding
Dimension
Component
Quality Control
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40167