饮料瓶注射模具的模块化设计-------外文翻译.doc

Abstract This work applies modular design concepts to designating beverage-container injection molds. This study aims to develop a method of controlling costs and time in relation to mold development, and also to improve product design. This investigation comprises two parts: functionality coding, and establishing a standard operation procedure, specifically designed for beverage-container injection mold design and manufacturing. First, the injection mold is divided into several modules, each with a specific function. Each module is further divided into several structural units possessing sub-function or sub-sub-function. Next, dimensions and specifications of each unit are standardized and a compatible interface is constructed linking relevant units. This work employs a cup-shaped beverage container to experimentally assess the performance of the modular design approach. The experimental results indicate that the modular design approach to manufacturing injection molds shortens development time by 36% and reduces costs by 19∼23% compared with the conventional approach.
Meanwhile, the information on modularity helps designers in diverse products design. Additionally, the
functionality code helps effectively manage and maintain products and molds.
Keywords Beverage container . Injection mold . Modular design . Product family

1 Introduction
Recently, growing market competition and increasingly diverse customer demand has forced competitors to increase the speed at which they deliver new products to the market. However, developing a mold for mass production requires considering numerous factors, including product geometry, dimensions, and accuracy, leading to long product development time. Introducing modular
design concepts into product design appears a key mean of facilitating product development, since it increases design flexibility and shortens delivery time [1–4]. Meanwhile, a high level of product modularity enhances product innovativeness, flexibility, and customer services [5]. Modularity is to subdivide a complex product into modules that can be independently created and then are easily used interchangeably [6, 7]. There are three general fields where modularity could be implemented including
modularity in design (MID), modularity in use (MIU), and modularity in production (MIP) [8]. MID involves standardizing basic structural units which perform specific functions, thus facilitating flexible assembly of various products [9, 10]. MID can reveal product structure, namely the relationship among different products. Related products are termed product family and include both basic and specific functions. Developing product families offers benefits in terms of multi-purpose design and thus reduces production costs [11, 12]. MIU is consumer-driven decomposition of a product with a view to satisfying the ease of use and individually. MIP enables the factory floor to precombine a large number of components into modules and these modules to be assembled off-line and then brought onto the main assembly line to be incorporated into a small and simple series of tasks.


这项工作适用于模块化设计理念——设计用于特定饮料瓶的注塑模具。本研究旨在开发一个能控制模具开发成本和时间同时也能提高产品设计水平的方法。这项研究由两部分组成：功能编码和专为饮料瓶注塑模具设计和制造而建立的标准作业程序。首先，注射模具分为几个模块，每个模块都具有特定功能。每个模块又分为具有子功能或分次功能的若干结构单元。其次，将各单元的尺寸和规格标准化，各单元通过兼容性接口相连接。本实验采用了杯形饮料瓶模具的设计来对模块化设计方法进行评估。实验结果表明，使用模块化设计方法，比使用传统方法制造注塑模具缩短了36％的开发时间，减少了19〜23％的成本。同时，模块化信息对设计师在设计各种产品时都会有帮助。此外，功能代码有助于有效地管理和维护产品和模具。

关键词：饮料瓶注塑模具 模块化设计 产品系列。

1.简介
近年来，市场竞争的加剧和客户差异化需求的日益增加，迫使竞争者必须加快他们向市场提供新产品的速度。但是，大规模模具的生产开发需要考虑许多因素，包括产品的几何形状，尺寸和精度等，这导致了产品的开发时间的延长和生产灵活性的降低。在产品设计中引入模块化设计理念意味着出现了一个可以促进产品开发的关键因素，它能增加设计的灵活性，缩短交货时间。与此同时，模块化的产品提高了产品的高级别创新性，灵活性和客户服务性。模块化是将一个复杂的产品细分成多个可以独立创建的模块，各个模块间可以随意的互换使用。一般来模块化可以在三个领域中进行实施，包括设计模块化（MID），使用模块化（MIU）和生产模块化（MIP）。设计模块化涉及到执行特定功能的基本结构单元的规范化，从而能促进各种产品的灵活装配。生产模块化可以透视出的产品结构，即同产品之间的联系。具有相关性的产品被称为产品系列，包括基本职能和特定职能。开发产品系列有利于多用途产品设计从而减少生产成本。它也是消费导向型的更能满足个性化需求的产品。生产模块化可以使工厂预先将大量的部件组装成一个个模块，然后将这些模块进行组装离线，再运送到

主装配线将其纳入到一系列小而简单的任务当中。模块化理念已广泛地应用于许多领域，在降低成本提高设计的多样性方面有重大的影响。然而，模块化模具设计?.