Design, Analysis and Optimum Selection of Mold Runner Section by using AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process) method
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-Abstract
Injection Molding is a manufacturing process for plastic parts. For designing a mold for injection molding
process used various parameters for proper design. Runner is a one of the effective parameter for product quality output.
Runner has different cross sections like square, full round, triangle and hexagonal. Here we design mold using designing
software CREO 2.0. and also simulate in CREO SIMULATION. There are various cross sections available for the runner
of mold so the best runner cross section is the criteria for the optimization. Here we select the runner cross section by
using the analytical hierarchy process.by using this method we arrived at particular solution of the multivariable
problem and this method gives the optimum result. For injection molding mold we select various variables for the AHP
method like maximum stress, maximum principle stress, maximum displacement and volume to be removed by machining
process