Resource Efficient Injection Moulding with Low Environmental Impacts
The selection of most appropriate design and technological solutions to produce certain mould should capture technical performance, economical issues and also environmental impacts occurred during the mould life cycle. In the paper an approach is presented to support the selection of alternative mould design solutions in the early design stage. It includes the use of Life Cycle Assessment methodology, Life Cycle Cost methodology and is supported by numerical simulations. Approach is applied to a case study where three mould designs for production of the same plastic product were compared. At the end general conclusion regarding the resource efficient injection moulding processes are presented.