SAMSUNG Electronics -Moldex3D

SAMSUNG Electronics Introduced Moldex3D As The Standard CAE Tool For Injection Molding
Customer Profile

Founded in 1938, SAMSUNG has maintained a mission statement that responds both to its own change, and to new developments in the world: “Economic contribution to the nation,” “Priority to human resources,” “Pursuit of rationalism.” Each slogan represents significant moments in SAMSUNG’s history, reflecting different stages of the company’s growth from a domestic industrial leader into a global consumer electronics powerhouse. (Source: www.samsung.com)

• The Challenge:Adapt to the ever-changing and more challenging product design requirements.
• The Solution: Reactive Injection Molding (RIM) is widely applied to provide an encapsulation that tolerates higher working temperature, and provides high reliability in thermal, mechanical and electrical property.
• Key Benefits:Through Moldex3D, the design parameters and process conditions can be verified, eliminating physical prototyping and tedious trial-and-error.

There is no doubt that SAMSUNG Electronics is maintaining its market leadership in the global market (DRAM, SRAM, TFT-LCD, Color monitor, CPT & CDT, VCR, flash memory, Microwave, CDMA Handset, and so on), and SAMSUNG had sold 86.6 millions of its mobile phones in 2004, accounted for 12.7 percent share of the global market. Visual Display Group is one of top profit making departments. SAMSUNG Electronics maintains the top position in global market share of Color TVs, monitors. As one of few electronics companies with profound competencies in both A/V and IT, SAMSUNG have the foresight and willingness to make industry-leading investments in the future.

VPD (Virtual Product Development) is a popular topic nowadays. However, to achieve this goal not only requires professional developers, but suitable CAE software to benefit the collaborations. What we commonly understand are to evaluate the mechanical reliability, thermal management, electro-magnetic compatibility, and etc; but producibility should be considered as the key, since simulation tools for fabrication help to predict what will possibly occur during the production stage, which could save lots of possible expenses on trouble-shooting and the yield improvement.
Moldex3D can predict the short shot region
Mobile phone is always the focus in consuming electronics industries. In order to win people’s heart, all components need to be designed as fancy and exclusive among numerous new models. However, this demand is usually not easy to reach because the new design would be much more complex than traditional ones and is more challenging in the current molding technology. In this study, the short shot region is almost identical to the molded part, which goes on to prove the accuracy of Moldex3D. It guarantees the simulation result is valuable especially for exploring a revolutionary design.

Actual Sample	Melt front

Cable encapsulation
Reactive Injection Molding (RIM) is widely applied to provide an encapsulation that tolerates higher working temperature, and provides high reliability in thermal, mechanical and electrical property. However, the resin is thermosets, of which chemorhelogy is more complex than thermoplastics. Through Moldex3D, the design parameters and process conditions can be verified, instead of physical prototyping and tedious trial-and-error.
Moldex3D scrutinizes each development stage for Samsung, ensuring the production quality
Through the introduction of the practical studies above, these cases demonstrate that Moldex3D possesses talented integrity for various purposes, widely from product conceptualization to prototyping stage. Moldex3D should definitely be in the list if you want to expand the VPD simulation tools to reach the optimum in such competitive business environment.

3D Coolant CFD

What Can Moldex3D Do?

• Improve cooling efficiency to enhance part quality
• Predict required cooling flow rate
• Reduce cycle time and costs
• Calculate flow properties, such as temperature, pressure, and velocity
• Predict potential welding line, sink mark, warpage, pressure loss, etc.
• Estimate transient mold temperature
• Support parallel processing to speed up the simulation process

Applicable Industries

Electronics, Mechanical, Consumer Product

Conformal Cooling Design Validation

How to design an efficient cooling system is critical for part quality and cycle time in the injection molding process. Among various cooling solutions, conformal cooling has gained importance due to its proven success in cost and cooling time reduction. Moldex3D assists users in evaluating the effectiveness of cooling layout design and validating potential molding problems.

Explore Moldex3D’s Capabilities

• CAD models in STL format can be imported and defined as cooling channels or heating rods in Designer.
• Baffle and bubbler designs can be simulated and analyzed.

Leverage exptertise in PTC CREO View

Most engineers are living in a 3D world. The CAD models they build as part of the design process are 3D as are the simulations  that prove out those concepts and the realistic prototypes output with, you guessed it, 3D printers working off the same 3D data. Yet outside of engineering—in manufacturing departments, throughout the supply chain, even within service—the 3D model has  yet to become the holy grail. In fact, it’s more likely that 2D drawings are the go to resource for information about a particular product design.

 As a result, organizations are not poised to capitalize on the myriad benefits of the Model-Based Enterprise, a vision for a collaborative environment with a 3D product definition as the definitive information resource for activities spanning a product’s complete lifecycle.As standards evolve for 3D models to embed other types of non geometric data product and manufacturing information (PMI) such as geometric dimensions and tolerances, materials information, and surface finishes, among other items—pioneering companies like Toyota and Boeing have gone on record with claims that a MBE approach can translate into a 50% reduction in costs. The savings are due to the efficiencies and increased accuracy of leveraging the 3D product definition for everything from setting up manufacturing workflows to inspecting parts and creating process planning instructions.

A model-based definitions help companies save time, eliminate scrap, and promote reuse since engineers are devoting fewer hours to creating, clarifying or fixing documentation, they have more time to spend on actual design and engineering work, which leads to better products. A model-based approach to have particular value for developing and managing families of products and their variants.

The research showed companies delivering 23% more projects on time at 62% lower cost compared to organizations using MBE alternative approaches.Invest in the right tools. CAD is at the crux of an MBE, but the CAD tool has to be agnostic so it can work with a variety of CAD data and it has to have options for annotating the 3D CAD model with data required by downstream users in manufacturing. PTC Creo View MCAD, for example, provides a way to publish design intent from a 3D CAD model into a format that can be easily viewed and interrogated by downstream users, including selective geometry, dimensions, and tolerances. Further, the PTC Creo View Design Check option replaces the redlining/pen and paper-based process with a digital tool that maintains an electronic marking history of all design check cycles.
PTC Creo View Design Check replaces traditional  redlining and paper-based processes.