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Comment: • Also, Des-MOLD allow flexible production and higher production capacity. Intelligent molds enable easy production change and even production factory change. Being flexible to market has become mandatory for companies to survive. Furthermore, producing less scrap means having free capacity for another production. In growth circumstances (plastic business grows 3 to 4 % a year on average) this point is important.
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Comment: • The main strategic objective of the Des-MOLD project is to reduce the cost of injection-molding production by developing and validating a set of ICT tools specifically oriented to mold makers and plastic injection companies, which will reduce the need for mock-ups of molds, and several try-and-error trials to calibrate process control variables
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Comment: Environmental impact: improvement sustainability of production processes and tools since Des-MOLD will reduce the need for mock-up tools, and scrap pieces will be decreased thanks to the optimal designs and sensorization at the design level. Furthermore, Scrap reduction strategy has a direct impact on energy consumption reduction (less scraped parts are produced).
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Comment: Depent of the manufacture piece
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Comment: Depent of the manufacture piece
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Comment: • At the injection molding companies level, Des-MOLD will impact directly the profitability of a company, which most of them are SMEs. This is obviously a guarantee for these actors to maintain the level of employment in this sector in Europe. Furthermore, it is also an opportunity for the company to lower the products’ costs, and thereby possibly increase its market shares, hence its benefits, and investment capacity (structural development, job creation). •