AN INTEGRATED APPROACH FOR DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE OF PLASTIC PRODUCTS

The aim of this paper is to present an integrated design procedure for plastic part development and manufacture. Reverse engineering (RE), reengineering (ReE) and mold design have been incorporated to infuse agile characteristics in the proposed design and development process. The integration of RE and ReE presented in this paper accelerate the design process and provide information necessary for complete injection molding process of plastic parts. The purpose is to create a new object geometrically similar to the existing object. The new object must have better mechanical properties and more favorable geometry from the standpoint of mold ability. This paper also, describes a methodology for quality geometry check of the manufactured part that is need for verified the used integrated CAD/CAE technologies.