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Challenges:
- Conceptualizing an optimal part and mold design enabling the customer to produce an innovative concept of a grocery cart without steel reinforcement, resistant, and of more modern appearance, using the gas-assisted molding process;
- Ensuring a mold configuration permitting the achievement of objectives at the level of aesthetics and mechanical properties of the part produced, but with a minimized cycle time with respect to the cycle time normally observed for this type of process;
- Optimizing the configuration and the positioning of necessary elements for gas-assisted molds in order to assure for this type of process, which is usually acknowledged to have a lower level of stability than for conventional molding.
Realizations:
- Having obtained an exceptional cycle time for the grocery cart, taking account of the gas-assisted molding process, this due to the leading-edge expertise of I. Thibault in order to optimize the configuration and the location of the cooling pipes;
- Having delivered a mold producing marketable parts since the first test of the cart, despite the complexities of gas assistance;
- Having made possible major reductions in the cost of tooling due to the design and implementation of very large mechanism with an avant-garde design;
- Having managed to deliver a mold that ensures highly stable production of a complex structure at the process level due to an optimized configuration of all elements necessary for gas- assisted molding.
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