Plazology New VDMA Service

Plazology Ltd have launched a new simulation product design service for the plastics industry. Aimed at closing the gap between the virtual and actual physical manufacturing worlds, it significantly reduces the risks to successful, deadline achieving product launches. By enabling verification of a plastic part’s design, manufacturability and quality earlier in the development stages, VDMA® Virtual Design Moulding Analysis, addresses the many challenges to be met during the creation of plastic components. Current market forces command lower budgets, reduced development costs, more complex designs and shorter lead times. Plazology have recognised a need to confront these demands and have created this highly efficient service. VDMA enables designers and manufacturers to design, visualise and simulate products, from the conceptual design phase, right through the process to manufacture, reducing the need for costly physical prototypes. Plazology have many years of industry knowledge and experience in polymer material selection, part design, mould tooling/process, quality and data monitoring analysis. Combining this expertise with up to the minute simulation technology they are able to give their clients a competitive edge. The use of VDMA® can not only provide an excellent end product for customers, but can also address additional company objectives, such as providing accurate quoting for jobs, more precise estimations of cycle times, eradication of production errors and process inefficiencies such as wasted materials. VDMA® service allows our customers to create better plastic components with less design loops, using simulation data as a starting point. It provides a greater understanding of potential part/mould quality defects before the mould is manufactured, producing a comprehensive mould layout, with every concern risk- assessed to give to the mould maker. VDMA® enables Plazology’s clients to decide on the most appropriate cooling layout prior to mould manufacturing, using simulation to provide accurate results for heat transfer, Reynold numbers and cooling efficiencies. Importantly, it allows clients to have far greater confidence that the T1 trials will be more successful than before. The need for multiple processing trials, to modify and adjust is greatly reduced, saving both time and money. By using Plazology VDMA services we can give our customers far greater support than before in the virtual world, reducing design loops further downstream and enabling them to become truly competitive.