FOR PLASTICS MOLDING PROCESSES OPTIMIZE YOUR INJECTION PROCESS MATERIAL FORMING SIMULATION
2 www.transvalor.com Boost your R&D and Reduce Production Costs SHORTEN CYCLE TIME Use REM3D to determine optimum packing time for minimum warpage. IMPROVE MOLD DESIGN Use REM3D to determine the best position for runners, coolers and/or heating cartridges. OPTIMIZE YOUR INJECTION PROCESS Use REM3D to determine the inner pressure and consequently optimize the clamping force. OPTIMIZE YOUR EXPANSION PROCESS Use REM3D to determine the best balance of foam polyurethane filling and find out the optimal weight for ideal filling. Free Surface Flow Automatic Anisotropic Adaptive Meshing Navier-Stokes Rheological Fully Parallelized Coupled Thermal Chemical With the best results accuracy on the market you can validate and optimize your complex polymer injection processes with unlimited number of materials. Using 3D finite elements resolution, REM3D simulates full injection cycle of thermoplastics or thermosets molding processes. Fibers Orientation
3 Injection-Expansion Foam Simulation 100 Part s Filling (%) 80 Only Expansion 60 40 20 Injection- Expansion Injected Mass (kg) 0 0 5 10 15 20 25 Filling Time (s) FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS: DETERMINE WITH REM3D THE MINIMUM MASS FOR FULL FILLING, IDEAL VENTING OR INSERTS POSITIONS. OPTIMIZE THE BALANCING PROCESS AND THE FINAL DENSITY DISTRIBUTION ANYWHERE IN THE PART. Bumper Door panel Dashboard Seat Acoustic & thermal noise protection
4 www.transvalor.com Unmatched Remeshing Technology Gas assisted injection molding of a door handle WITH ITS UNIQUE AAA* REMESHING TECHNOLOGY, REM3D GIVES A TRUE PICTURE OF THE POLYMER FLOW. VALIDATE AND OPTIMIZE THE MOST CHALLENGING PROCESSES. THIS MESHING TECHNOLOGY GUARANTEES AN EXTREME SHARPNESS WHEN SHOWING THE FLUID FLOW. Prediction of : Polymer residual thickness Open shrinkage Shrinkage and warpage Cooling effect Air trap Gate location *AAA: AUTOMATIC-ANISOTROPIC-ADAPTIVE Courtesy of Short shot of electrical housing injection molding (in white). Comparison with the simulation results (in red).
5 Accurate representation of Heat Description & Fibers Orientation Courtesy of With REM3D, predict the fibers orientation during the filling stage and after part ejection. Gain insight using the unique & comprehensive ellipsoid tensor visualization and capture fibers orientation from core to skin. Foot component of a piece of furniture EFFICIENT HEAT DESCRIPTION ESSENTIAL FOR HEAT / RHEOLOGY COUPLING standard isotropic mesh with same number of nodes: adapted mesh increased thermal accuracy
6 www.transvalor.com High Performance Computing Proven real-world accuracy: REM3D simulates your planned or existing injection processes with unmatched accuracy. It enables to confidently make planning and production decisions and avoid unpleasant surprises. Performance and scalability: REM3D is based on a performance-optimized architecture and can be deployed on one or many processor cores, providing the level of simulation power you need without limitation! Computation time X2 FASTER X4 FASTER X6 FASTER 8 cores 16 cores 32 cores 64 cores Computation time versus number of computer cores Easy setup and accessibility: REM3D intuitive user interface makes it easy to model your process environment and quickly begin running injection simulations. REM3D offers unlimited access to graphical user interface for pre- and post-processing which means that simulation results can be analyzed from as many computers as needed.
7 Applications Water Assisted Injection Molding Gas Assisted Injection Molding Co-Injection Thermoplastics Thermosets Foam Injection & Expansion Fiber Reinforced Injection Molding Overmolding Sheet Molding Compound Bulk Molding Compound All Multi-Material Processes Flow balancing in extrusion dies Flow GAIM Process Foam Molds WAIM Underfilling Molding Polymer Fibers Optimization Polyurethane Improvement Shrinkage Warpage Orientation Expansion Co-Injection Simulation
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