Nowadays to remain competitive, the need to constantly improve injection molding processes can benefit from modern technological advancements that simulation offers to overcome known disadvantages. With the aid of sophisticated computer-based tools, virtual product design enables engineers to look at and gain a better understanding of the entire process – from first idea through to seeing how the top clips on and stays on - all before taking the first step towards the factory floor.
This e-Guide includes illustrations from the collaborative product design study Altair developed with Nolato for “Nolava”, a battery-powered medical electro-mechanical auto injector. These devices need to be robust and reliable because they are used every day around the world by people needing life-saving medication that is administered in the home by non-medically trained staff.