Product data exchange for concurrent engineering process / Zaimee Mohamad and Mohd Farid Isa

Nowadays a lot of plastic industries are diverting to utilise simulation software as a tool towards producing a good product quality rather than traditional ways by trial and error method. Today, the integration of CAD/CAM/CAE system becomes power tools to develop and enhance manufacturing design with more efficient particularly in plastic industries. By using these systems the mould designer could do an analysis in CAE after completing their design in CAD to find whether their design is free from any errors before the mould is made. A design mistake can be modified on the computer model without creating a new design on CAE or CAD system. Therefore by using CAD/CAM/CAE systems, the moulding industries would not longer depends on trial and error method to determine whether their design is free from defects. The main objective of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of integration between CAD/CAM/CAE system. One case study of mold design had been selected to compare the results between CAE and trial and error method. In this project, Moldflow software is used for CAE system and Unigraphics Modeling for CAD.