Design and Implementation of Rapid Tooling for Injection Modling

由自然科学和工程研究理事会（NSERC）授予的应用研究和开发补助金（即2级ARD）将支持Camosun学院和Scott Plastics Ltd.之间的应用研究伙伴关系，一家位于不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华岛的当地塑料注塑制造商。这种新的学院-行业合作伙伴关系将导致一种新的生产技术，使斯科特塑料提供小型生产运行和原型注塑部件使用快速模具。快速模具使用立体光刻（SLA）快速原型（或3-D打印）来创建适用于成本有效的小批量（50-1000件）注塑成型零件的模具。然而，快速加工提出了一些挑战。与传统模具不同，快速原型模具是非金属的，并且存在非理想的热和机械性能。该项目旨在研究模具的热性能和机械性能，目的是开发用于注塑成型的程序。该项目的结果将使斯科特塑料公司能够吸引一个新的市场，一个到目前为止只在该地区以外，通常在亚洲提供服务的市场。

The Applied Research and Development Grant (i.e. Level 2 ARD), awarded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering research Council (NSERC) will support the applied research partnership between Camosun College and Scott Plastics Ltd., a local plastic injection-molding manufacturer located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. This new College-Industry partnership will result in a new production technique that will allow Scott Plastics to provide small production-run and prototype injection-molded components using rapid tooling. Rapid tooling uses Stereolithography (SLA) rapid prototyping (or 3-D printing) to create molds suitable for cost effective small runs (50-1000 pieces) of injection molded parts. Rapid tooling however presents some challenges. Unlike traditional molds, rapid prototyped molds are non-metallic and present non-ideal thermal and mechanical properties. This project is designed to examine the thermal and mechanical properties of the molds with the goal of developing procedures for their use in injection molding. The results of the project will enable Scott Plastics to attract a new market, one that until now has only been served outside the region, usually in Asia.