A Study on automatic optimization of cooling circuit design in injection mold

사출금형 냉각회로의 최적설계자동화에 관한 연구

Cooling circuit of injection mold affects part quality and cycle time of injection molding process. Examination on mold cooling circuit is usually omitted in part design stage because cooling circuit is designed in the mold design stage. It is desirable to examine mold cooling circuit with respect to part quality in the part design stage. In order to make the examination process convenient and fast, cooling circuit design should be automated without intervention of skilled designer. In this study, optimization of cooling circuit design is automated with commercial softwares; Visual DOC and Moldflow MPI. Effect of initial value for optimization is examined for the optimization result.