As featured in Popular Plastics & Packaging, April 2008 Edition.
Review by Mr. Rangarajan
The Mould Design Guide
By: Peter Jones
Published by: Smithers Rapra Technology Limited, UK
ISBN: 978-1-84735-088-6
Format: Hard and Soft Cover,
540 pages
Price: SoftCover: 125/US$225/Euro200
HardCover: £150/US$270/Euro240
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The modern-day injection mould tool is often a complex arrangement of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic components expected to fulfill a range of demanding tasks. Irrespective of the complexity, the mould design must essentially specify a tool that will operate satisfactorily in production.
To achieve this objective it must meet several parameters like:
Operating at the required production rate and last the predicted design life.
The design should be compatible for production rate and last the predicted design life.
The design should take into compliance in specifying a tool that will operate consistently during production.
These objectives however are not simple to achieve. In fact a completed mould tool is a highly stressed dynamic heat exchanger. Therefore it is highly important to ensure that the mould design takes all these factors into consideration. In fact all these factors combine to make the mould a highly stressed dynamic heat exchanger.
It is hence very important to ensure that the mould design takes all these factors into consideration.
There are also several other requirements that need to be considered among which are the following:
The number of impressions require
The type of tool needed e.g. two plate, side core, split, multiplate, hot runner and so on.
The mould materials
The cavity constructions
The required life of the tool
Temperature control
The moulding material
The book addresses all these, and many other relevant issues, and each topic is discussed and examined in detail. The information contained in this book is based over thirty-five years experience of the author Mr. Peter Jones in the injection moulding industry and on over 3000 successful mould designs.
The book is essentially a data book that succinctly presents information in a logical understandable, reference form for mould designers, tooling engineers, production engineers and others associated directly or indirectly with injection mould tooling.
Many examples of mould designs are included with notes, providing a complete understanding of the principles involved. There are a number of data tables, design examples, and a gallery full of mold designs and several examples of mould designs are included with notes providing a complete understanding of the principles involved.
Please note that this book uses the ISO system throughout except in a few cases where American examples are used that may be specified in the imperical system. It is important to note that the ISO system uses newtons, metres and seconds.
The Mould Design Guide provides in depth information on the design and manufacture of mould tools for successful, economical function in production. The book focuses on designs that produce the required production rate and quality of moulding in a consistent and reliable fashion.
An excellent treatise of reference for mould designers, tooling engineers, production engineers and others associated directly or indirectly with injection mould tooling.
