COST AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION MODELS FOR COMPARING MULTI-SHOT AND TRADITIONAL INJECTION MOLDING

dc.contributor.advisorGupta, Satyandra Ken_US
dc.contributor.authorFowler, Gregory Thomasen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMechanical Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2004-08-27T05:26:14Z
dc.date.available2004-08-27T05:26:14Z
dc.date.issued2004-07-30en_US
dc.description.abstractMulti-shot molding is rapidly becoming a viable manufacturing process alternative to traditional injection molding with assembly operations due to potential benefits in both cost and quality of the end products. With these new manufacturing processes comes a need to develop new tools for analyzing products at the conceptual design level in order to choose the best manufacturing process. This thesis presents two complementary models for comparing multi-shot molding with traditional injection molding using cost and performance-based metrics. This work is mainly for comparative analysis of two manufacturing processes. The models were developed by expanding and combining existing academic work with current industry practices to provide a comprehensive framework for product comparison and process selection. The models were shown to provide results on two separate case studies. This research is a step towards automating the design and process-selection of injection molded components.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/1759
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEngineering, Mechanicalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmulti-material moldingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcost estimationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledperformance evaluationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledprocess comparisonen_US
dc.titleCOST AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION MODELS FOR COMPARING MULTI-SHOT AND TRADITIONAL INJECTION MOLDINGen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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