Value chain and production cost optimization by integrating additive manufacturing in injection molding process chain

Supply chain modifications to improve additive manufacturing cost-benefit balance

Additive manufacturing (AM) offers unique production characteristics which among those, toollessness and production of complex geometries are potentially significant to operations efficiency. Previous research has illustrated the potential sufficiency of this technology to affect the supply chains‟ arrangements and enabling decentralized production configurations. While, one of the important ad...

Integrating images in dental manufacturing technology: the prosthetic value chain.

Tomorrow’s practice of dentistry will likely include interventions, such as biological scaffolding and tissue regeneration, but for today and the immediate future reconstructive dentistry will continue to be based on the surgical removal of diseased and malpositioned teeth, and the prosthetic replacement and restoration of damaged or missing teeth into form and function. Successful treatment of...

Optimization of Plastic Injection Molding Process by Combination of Artificial Neural Network and Genetic Algorithm

Injection molding is one of the most important and common plastic formation methods. Combination of modeling tools and optimization algorithms can be used in order to determine optimum process conditions for the injection molding of a special part. Because of the complication of the injection molding process and multiplicity of parameters and their interactive effects on one another, analytical...

Effective Run-In and Optimization of an Injection Molding Process

Integrating the Taguchi Method and Response Surface Methodology for Process Parameter Optimization of the Injection Molding

The outer coating of an optical fiber cable protects the optical fiber, and the contraction rate of the outer coating can affect the communication capacity and distance, so the contraction rate is often regarded as the key factor in defining the quality of an optical fiber cable. For this reason, using the example of the circular single-pin optical fiber cable manufacturing process of the large...