Machines
The plastic molding machines in the aPriori baseline VPE only cover single-shot, single-part, single-material, single-color molding. The cost model assumes that the hopper and barrel are large enough to accommodate the required shot size.
Brand names of IM machines in the baseline VPE include the following:
• Arburg
• Engel
• Kawaguchi
• KraussMaffei
• Milacron
• Netstal
• Toyo
The characteristics of these machines fall into the following ranges:
Machine Characteristic | Low End | High End |
Overhead Rate | $23.19 per hour | |
Dry Cycle Time (Ejection Time) | 1.1 seconds | |
Injection Rate | 64,000 mm3 per second | 3,710,000 mm3 per second |
Clamping Force | 300 kN | 55,000 kN |
Max Mold Height | 300 millimeters | 3,300 millimeters |
Min Mold Height | 150 millimeters | 1,500 millimeters |
Tie Bar Distance (Horizontal and Vertical) | 221 millimeters | 2,500 millimeters |