Tooling Design and Optimisation

Tooling design involves the creation of specialised tools like moulds, dies, jigs, and fixtures, crucial for producing specific components or products. In injection moulding, for instance, tooling design focuses on molds that shape molten plastic into the desired form. These moulds need to be meticulously designed to ensure accurate reproduction of intricate details, tight tolerances, and efficient cooling, ultimately influencing the quality and cost-effectiveness of the injection moulding process. We can further optimise these processes using ‘conformal cooling’ whereby cooling channels are designed to closely follow the mould shape. This has a huge impact on cooling cycle times and therefore production rate. Going one step further, we can utilise additive manufacturing to create intricate conformal cooling channels that maximise heat transfer and fluid flow. This is sometimes referred to as ‘Generative Conformal Cooling’, a unique capability at NOVL (see portfolio example here).

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