Milling and Manufacturing
Given a drawing from a 4th grader at the local Lincoln Elementary school, my team and I set out to create it as a manufacturable toy.
Conceptualizing:
The first step we took was to sketch out what it might look like as injection molded parts.
Modeling:
Next, we used NX to model all of the parts, and their respective core and cavity aluminum molds
Machining:
After completing all the computer work it was time to get in the shop and actually make our heart eye emoji molds
Manufacturing:
We produced over 100 complete toys using one industrial sized and one small injection molding machine. We measured a dimension of each parts to perform a control analysis.
Measuring:
The diameter of the peg on the back of the emoji's right eye was a recorded control measure as we adjusted machine parameters.
We measured 100 consecutive parts. We adjusted the cooling time from 6 seconds to 3 seconds for parts 51-75 and returned it to 6 seconds for parts 76-100. The average diameter went from 0.185" to 0.181" and back to 0.185" respectively.
We were able to drive the production out of control by changing the cooling time.
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