Today's injection molding technology requires more high-quality and economic tool manufacturing. Tools consist of a multiplicity of single mechanical components. In particular the cavity regarding the surface quality is to be given the largest attention.
It is in this context that a demand for automated and flexible procedures for manufacturing 3D-surfaces arises. Usually the cavities are manufactured by removal processes and subssequent complex and cost-intensive surface structuring techniques and manual repolishing. The hybrid combination of the manufacturing processes is a new approach to avoid the environmental impact of grinding and polishing wastes and chemicals, to increase the reproducibility of the processing and to save manufacturing costs.
Read more in German in:
FUTUR. Vision Innovation Realisierung. Mitteilungen aus dem Produktions-technischen Zentrum Berlin.1/2007. S16f.
(With courtesy of FhG-IPK/FhG-IWF)
It is in this context that a demand for automated and flexible procedures for manufacturing 3D-surfaces arises. Usually the cavities are manufactured by removal processes and subssequent complex and cost-intensive surface structuring techniques and manual repolishing. The hybrid combination of the manufacturing processes is a new approach to avoid the environmental impact of grinding and polishing wastes and chemicals, to increase the reproducibility of the processing and to save manufacturing costs.
Read more in German in:
FUTUR. Vision Innovation Realisierung. Mitteilungen aus dem Produktions-technischen Zentrum Berlin.1/2007. S16f.
(With courtesy of FhG-IPK/FhG-IWF)
Structuring of a molding tool for the molding of plastic pipes