
Rising Demand for Medical Devices Drives Plastic Injection Molding Market
Author:gly Date: 2024-09-30
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In plastics processing, the rapid detection of rejects is of great interest. Especially for components that are produced in large quantities, for which injection moulding is actually ideal. Particularly in the context of quality control, it is very time-consuming to collect and verify the necessary training data during operation. Despite the complexity of the error patterns, the use of AI still makes sense because manual quality control takes a long time and does not always lead to the desired result. The aim of the project “QuKu-ML: Camera-based quality assessment in plastic injection moulding using ML strategies” was to simplify the quality control of a component produced by an injection moulding machine for the automotive industry using an algorithm.
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