Powerful mold flow analysis software has recently been added by Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions, to help with the design of custom-molded lead screw and linear motion components. Tooling engineers at Haydon Kerk use Solid Works Plastic Professional to help speed up the design process and offer customised solutions to fit customer’s application needs.
The use of mold flow analysis helps engineers run critical calculations to expedite the design of custom part and mold features, such as gate location, parting line location, design geometry, material flow, fiber alignment, vent locations, weld-line analysis, and cooling-line locations.
All of these design considerations affect custom parts in the following areas:
Haydon Kerk’s experience with the use of over 60 molded materials, including the Kerkite composites, PEEK and PPS base materials, combined with the capabilities of this new software, allows engineers to reduce the time required for the design and build process for custom molds.
The combination of on-site tooling and molding machines also reduces the time to production for custom parts for existing Haydon Kerk polymers or customer-specified materials.
Haydon Kerk has been designing custom parts for 30 years. That experience, combined with state-of-the-art CNC EDM tooling, molding machines and now mold flow analysis, helps to remove risk when designing new molded parts.
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