Several experts are involved in the creation of a new product. sim link simplifies cooperation between simulation and production staff.

ENGEL claims by using sim link, the number of repetitions could be significantly reduced. The quality of the simulation has also improved and become more accurate. Difficulties in the coordination could thus be successfully overcome.

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Every injection moulder faces challenges in achieving its production targets. The most important factor in the development of new products is a short time to market. At the same time, the costs for the development and the optimisation of the moulds must be kept low.

The individual machine dynamics are taken into account and the simulation can be carried out more realistically. The measured production data can be fed back into the simulation very easily. This improves the quality of the simulation.

ENGEL says experimental methods such as filling studies are often not sufficient and analytical methods lead to better results. however, the problem often arises of establishing a smooth data exchange between software and production.

Time-consuming and error-prone manual input of data at the machine is no longer necessary. sim link fulfils this data exchange between simulation software and injection moulding machine without errors.

Thanks to effective simulation of injection moulding, cost-intensive looping is reduced when optimising a new component. Where mould makers had to find the values manually for the initial sampling of the moulds, target values are now automatically transferred from the simulation to the injection moulding machine.

ENGEL claims sim link makes problem-free data exchange between simulation and the injection moulding machine possible. This, in theory saves time consuming co-ordination loops between mould development and production.