CASE STUDY
Efficient hot runner development through automated simulations
With StrömungsRaum®, you simulate hot runners fully automated and without modifications to your design. Reduce manufacturing iterations, save time and resources, and secure an innovation advantage through precise analyses and optimized results in just 1.5 hours.
Challenge
Do more complex geometries require multiple manufacturing iterations to achieve a satisfactory result?
Value Added
Hot runner simulations can be fully automated in the StrömungsRaum® – and this without making changes to the existing design methodology. Only the production of the finally tested hot runner is required, as countless iteration loops can be omitted in practice. The results are provided to you in a clear report, which vividly shows where potential overshooting or undershooting of the process window might occur. This allows targeted optimizations through adjustments to the geometry. A complete simulation including all process steps takes an average of only about 1.5 hours.
Solution Approach
With the StrömungsRaum® for hot runners, we simulate your hot runner manifold exactly as you design it. Your design data is automatically recognized by our system and classified into the categories of hot runner manifold block, heating wires, sensors, spacers, nozzles, and flange. The placement of sensors enables automatic assignment of heating wires to ensure precise temperature control (PID) that regulates the temperature input of the heating wires. Simultaneously, heat is efficiently dissipated through spacers and other connections to the cooler tooling. The result is a stable state that maps the temperatures in the hot runner manifold block as well as in the melt channel and directly categorizes it according to your process window as "acceptable" or "not acceptable".
Benefits
By using our simulation technology, valuable resources can be saved – from material usage for building the hot runners to reducing time and energy efforts during test runs. This not only gives you a significant competitive advantage in terms of higher energy efficiency and improved quality, but also an innovation advantage: Our solution enables greater variety and rapid implementation, which is often not possible in reality. This way, you always stay one step ahead of the competition!
"Thanks to the innovative automation solutions from IANUS, we have made significant progress in the thermal design of our hot runner systems. Automating the thermal validation has led to a significant improvement in the quality of our products. The collaboration with IANUS has fundamentally changed our approach – we are now working in a more modern and advanced way than ever before. The effort required for thermal optimization of our hot runner manifolds has been reduced to just a few mouse clicks." -Stefan Eimeke
IANUS - Better Decisions.
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