Injection Mold Specifications & Mold Design Guideline
INDEX:
Section 1: Injection Mold Design Guideline
Contents:
a) Upmold injection mold standards Description
b) Mold Series Description
• Upmold “A” Series
• Upmold “B” series
• Upmold “X” Series
• Upmold “AX” Series
• Upmold “T” series
• Upmold “RG” series
c) Common mold steels and applications for injection mold standard
Defines the common steel types and their applications
d) Drawing format and standards
Defines the Upmold 2-D drawing layout and standard drafting aids for the Block-out, Preliminary, and final design drawings.
e) Solid Model Geometry format, construction, and standards
Defines the Unigraphics Solid Modeling requirements, Upmold data layering specifications, Upmold construction techniques, general mold functionality fit and function standards, and Upmold design for manufacturability requirements.
Section 2: Slides/Lifters/Actions Standards and Design
Contents:
A) Mechanical Slide Design Standards
B) Hydraulic Slide Design Standards
C) Lifter Design Standards
Section 3: Runner System Standards and Design
Contents:
A) Surface Runner and gate Design Standards
B) Hot Runner Design Guidelines
C) Three plate runner and Pin-Point Gate Design Standards
Section 4: Cooling System Standards and Design
Defines methods to provide optimum mold temperature control
Section 5: Venting Standards and Design
Section 6: Ejector System Standards and Design
Contents:
A) Ejector pin design standards
B) Guided ejection design standards
C) Spring return standards
D) Hydraulic ejector standards
E) Press Knock-out (PKO) design standards
Section 7: Injection Mold Standard Components
Defines standard component types and suppliers
Section 8: Hydraulic and Pneumatic Standards and Design
Contents:
a) Hydraulic Standards-tooling-specification
b) Pneumatic Standards
