*Department of Mechanical Engineering, PSGTECH, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India
**Research Scholar, PSGIM, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India
***Assistant Professor, PSGIM, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India
Online published on 2 July, 2016.
In Injection Molding process, energy consumption for the product will be more and optimal setting up of parameters is very important for reducing the energy consumption and also in controlling the quality of the injection molded product. It is much difficult to set optimal process parameter levels which may cause defects such as shrinkage, line defects etc. Determining optimal process parameter setting critically influences the productivity, quality and production cost in Plastic Injection Molding industry. The main purpose of this paper is to minimize the energy consumption and it is done using Minitab. The approach is based on Taguchi's Method and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) to analyze and optimize the process parameters.
Injection molding, Energy consumption, Quality, Design of Experiment, Taguchi's Method
