Plastic Injection Molding - Simulation Software

Moldflow Plastics Advisers® (MPA®)

Moldflow Plastics Advisers® (MPA®) is easy to use plastic injection molding software that allows part and mold designers to optimize their designs during the earliest stages of new product development.

1. Core Module- Moldflow Mold Adviser

Optimize runner system designs and mold cavity layouts before cutting steel

Analysis Capabilities

  • Runner Balance Analysis
  • Runner Adviser Analysis

Key Benefits

  • Design and analyze all types of hot and cold runner systems
  • Automatically size runners to balance flow in multi-cavity and family molds
  • Determine the best gate locations and the optimum number of gates
  • Predict estimated cycle time, clamp tonnage, and shot volume
  • Assess the manufacturing feasibility of the mold design layout
  • Perform a detailed part cost estimation
  • Communicate valuable information to plastics part designers, mold builders, and manufacturing engineers using automated reporting tools

 

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Before Runner Adjustment - unbalanced filling

 

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After Runner Adjustment - balananced filling. Read more.

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2.MPA Extension Modules - Advanced 3D

Expand the range of parts that can be analyzed.

Key Benefits

  • Analyze parts that have thick, solid regions or excessive variations in part thickness
  • The best of both worlds with the speed of Dual Domain for traditional, thin wall designs combined with 3D analysis when advanced technology is required for nontraditional parts
  • Superior ease of use with embedded intelligence that automatically determines which technology to use

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More precise filling processing on thick & chunky product. Read more.

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3.MPA Extension Modules -Performance Adviser

Two key features in Performance Adviser are Packing Analysis and Warpage Indicator.

Packing Analysis

  • Optimize the second stage of the injection molding process
  • Achieve the optimum balance between part quality, part cost, and cycle time
  • Determine the optimal packing pressure and duration of packing
  • Review the volumetric shrinkage, cycle time, and the average temperature across the part

Warpage Indicator

  • Avoid costly fixes to molds while they are in production
  • Easily identify problem areas with a traffic-light plot (analogous to the Confidence-of-Fill plot)
  • Investigate the source of warpage and obtain recommendations to fix the problem
  • Evaluate how changes to the part design, mold design, material or process conditions will bring warpage to acceptable levels - before incurring the cost of cutting steel

 

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Warpage indicator with all effects, magnitude scale x 5. Read more

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4. MPA Extension Modules -Cooling Circuit Adviser 

Two key features in Cooling Circuit Adviser are Cooling Circuit Design and Evaluation and Automatic Cooling Layout Wizard.

Cooling Circuit Design and Evaluation

  • Model and evaluate regular cooling channels, baffles, bubblers, and hoses
  • Improve part quality by identifying hot spots and non-uniform cooling regions while it is easy to make part or mold design changes
  • Reduce cycle time by locating regions that take a long time to cool
  • Maximize efficency of the cooling system with results such as Reynolds number flow rate, pressure, and temperature

Automatic Cooling Layout Wizard

  • Save time by automatically generating an initial cooling system.
  • Standard rules generate the location and sizes of the cooling channels
  • Adjust the cooling lines to account for ejector pins and other mold components.

 

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Cooling circuit temperature variation. Read more

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