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GE Plastics/Salco Industries

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 Plastic Application Development Center -
capabilities to ~ugrnentl~ssistCorporate
Automotive Plastic Product Design
ABSTRACT
Methods o f designing p l a s t i c products i n
a 1a r g e a u t o m o t i v e o r g a n i z a t i o n a r e
l i s t e d . This paper describes the
b e n e f i t s o f u s i n g an o u t s i d e P l a s t i c
Appl i c a t i o n Development Center. A
d e t a i l e d needs statement i s given, along
w i t h t h e t o t a l range o f c a p a b i l i t i e s .
B e n e f i t s t o t h e automotive o r g a n i z a t i o n
a r e described.
KEYWORDS
P l a s t i c s , p l a s t i c s design, p l a s t i c s
manufacturing, automobile, design
c e n t e r , development c e n t e r , design
process, techno1 ogy t r a n s f e r , t r a i n i n g .
THE MANDATED FUEL economy f l e e t
averages have sent automotive designers
looking f o r alternative lightweight
m a t e r i a l s . P l a s t i c s have seen a g r e a t
increase i n use i n automotive e x t e r i o r
and i n t e r i o r products. Weight r e d u c t i o n
i s one p r i n c i p l e b e n e f i t , b u t another i s
d e s i g n and m a n u f a c t u r i n g v e r s a t i l i t y
which a l l o w s a g r e a t e r degree o f p a r t
i n t e g r a t i o n o r consol i d a t i o n . This
results i n f u r t h e r savings t o the
v e h i c l e manufacturer. These savings are
d i s c u s s e d ' and e l a b o r a t e d on i n t h e
sources (References 1,2,3 ) .
Great a t t e n t i o n t o manufacturing
methods, as w e l l as t h e p a r t d e s i g n ,
w i l l yield effective plastic part
design. To achieve t h e maximum b e n e f i t s ,
an e x p e r i e n c e d d e s i g n team s h o u l d be
utilized.
What s h o u l d be done i f c u r r e n t
personnel are experienced i n t h e design
Robert G. Dubensky
Chrysler Corp.
Ralph K. Salansky
GE Plastics/Salco Industries
u s i n g o t h e r m a t e r i a l s ? There a r e a number
o f ways o f proceeding w i t h t h e p r o j e c t :
1. A l l o w i n g t h e p r e s e n t team t o
d e s i g n w i t h t h e new m a t e r i a l s . A good
p r o d u c t MAY r e s u l t . Can t h e c o r p o r a t i o n
take a chance on t h i s mode o f o p e r a t i o n
today ?
2. Educating t h e e x i s t i n g team i n
t h e p r o p e r t i e s and ways o f manufacturing
t h e newer p l a s t i c m a t e r i a l s .
3. H i r e c o n t r a c t o r s t o do i t . ( I f
you can f i n d t h o s e w i t h t h e c o r r e c t
experience). The b e s t way i s t o have
them work a t your s i t e .
4 . H i r e a p l a s t i c s consultant o r
p l a s t i c s d e s i g n f i r m t o w o r k on t h i s
p r o j e c t . (Many persons i n t h e automotive
i n d u s t r y know o f t h i s method, and i t s
.
p i t f a l l s)
5. C o n t r a c t t h e whole p r o j e c t o u t
( w i t h t h e r e s u l t t h a t t h e product may be
designed c o r r e c t l y ) b u t your o r g a n i z a t i o n
and personnel w i l l l e a r n n o t h i n g i n t h e
process.
A n o t h e r method i s a v a i l a b l e , w i t h
t h e unique f e a t u r e t h a t i t meets a number
o f t h e d e s i r e d c r i t e r i a i . e . ; meets
t i m i n g , a l l o w s completion o f t h e p r o j e c t
a n d p r o v i d e s a way t o t r a i n y o u r
personnel. This i s t h e use o f a P l a s t i c
A p p l i c a t i o n s Development Center t o a s s i s t
i n these design p r o j e c t s .
AUTOMOTIVE PLASTICS DEVELOPMENT CENTER
WHY I T I S NEEDED
Global c o m ~ e t i t i o n i s f o r c i n g a l l
automotive manufacturers t o look a t
a1 t e r n a t e m a t e r i a1 s, methods, and ways o f
doing business to remain competitive.
The use of plastic materials for light
weight designs and to consolidate parts
is well known. Very 1 ittle information
is available on how to train the
workforce to design the parts, yet alone
how to do this in an ever shorter design
cycle. (Reference 4). The educational
community is saying, "We need to reduce
the amount of time spent on teaching
design." (Reference 5 & 6 see Dixon's
a r t i c l e s o n D e s i g n E d u c a t i o n in
Mechanical Engineering) .
Some educators are saying, "If we
can train someone to design steel parts,
they will know how to design plastic
parts". When this statement is mentioned
to a well known automotive plastic
product manufacturing speci a1 i st, his
response is boisterous laughter: Ho! Ho!
Ho ! (for at 1 east twenty times).
The automotive publication may even
tend to foster a so called competition
between the two types o f material
suppliers. (See the article on Plastics
vs Steel, Reference 7.) It is also
interesting t o note t h e entirely
different approach taken for t h e
education and training in the two
materi a1 s.
The steel industry has a support
group and have prepared a design manual
on the procedure and properties of
steels. This is readily available.
However, the younger plastics industry
has at least two societies, but no
unified effort in the training, or
similar consolidated documents.
The plastics industry seems to have
a restricted a p p r o a c h , i .e. each
company, (usually a division of a larger
conglomerate or chemi cal company) has
concentrated on their own training
efforts and do not tend to share these
with the central agencies.
This may seem to be a competitive
advantage, but there may be a danger in
this separation, or technical
isolationism (if you will) for the long
term approach. After all, the plastics
industry is the "new materials kid on
the bl ock" .
Steel was in the same position just
a short 70 years ago when there were
still body designers around who remember
the "old times" talking about the only
acceptable material for
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body pillars as "straight grained,
vertical stack, cured, January cut
timber". Possibly the steel industry
suppliers learned something from the past
when they were the "new materials kid on
the block" (in competition with native,
natural materi a1 s) .
This subject o f strategy for
acceptance can be the subject of another
technical paper. Basically, the Plastics
Appl i cat i ons Devel opment Centers (ADC)
are needed today because of the following
facts; i.e., no one organization can:
1) Reduce the design cycle time by
40%.
2) Change the basic materials used
(from a very forgiving, rigid,
non-memory effected material
[metals] to a newer material -
with tremendous potential
[plastics]) .
3) I n c r e a s e t h e r a t e o f parts
integration in design techniques.
4) Revise the design, manufacturing,
purchasing, and suppl i er process
to process driven design
techniques (other terms for the
s a m e t e r m a r e simultaneous
engineering, concurrent
engineering, team design or total
integrated design).
5) D e v e l o p a n d i n t e g r a t e n e w
manufacturing techniques.
6) Retrain the marketing design,
manufacturing workforce and, more
importantly (the middle and upper
management) to these new plastic
materials benefits properties and
processing techniques.
7) Develop the needed properties and
techniques, databases and expert
systems required to faci l i tate
a1 I of the above.
The on1y practical , competi ti ve, sol ut i on
is f o r t h e c o r p o r a t i o n use the
capabilities of the ADC.
Once the decision is made to use the
resources of the Applications Development
Center, the customer can interact with
this center by the methods shown in
Figure 1. T h e customer contacts a
regional center, (see Figure 2 for the
geographical location). The capabilities
of each ADC are (described in the next
section).
 TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
The Appl i cation Development Center
(ADC) has the ability to completely
d e s i g n , a n a l y z e and s p e c i f y the
manufacturing techniques for a plastic
product to meet application requirements
(or needs). These capabilities and
functional needs are shown schematically
in Figure 3. This section presents a
brief description of these capabilities.
Desiqn Services - The ADC has
complete product and process design
services. These range from concept
sketches, and engineering drawing,
computerized sol id model representation
of the part (s) . A computerized model is
often used for a finite element stress
analysis to study and assure the product
performance.
A separate model is created to
simulate t h e manufacturing of the
part(s). This is a most important
function to simulate, and should be done
for every proposed part.
Computer Techniques and Systems -
The wide range of tasks to perform could
not be a c c o m p l i s h e d w i t h o u t t h e
foll owing computerized techniques and
systems. These are available at the ADC
and will be listed (complete details of
specific techniques are found in the
current open literature, reference. 2).
Computer processes including:
CAD - Computer-aided-design
CAE - Computer-aided-engineering
Sol id model i ng
Automatic finite element mesh
generation
Finite element analysis
(1 i near and non-1i near
materi a1 s)
Kinematic and dynamic analysis
CAM - Computer-Aided-Manufacturi ng
NC - Part generation
C Cool Part Solidification
C Flow - Plastic Material
Flow Analysis
Stereo1 i thography
CIM - Computer-Integrated-
Manufacturing
Robotic Simulation
Product Flow in the Factory
Simulation
All of the SPC computerized
software
DFM - Design-for-Assembly
DFM - Design-for-
Manufacturabi 1 i ty
VSA - Variation Simulation Analysis
(Avail able for design and
stack-up analysi s)
COST ESTIMATING - All techniques for
cost estimating to include:
Material quantity
Processing cost
Coating cost
Assembly cost
Cure time cost
Materi a1 hand1 ing/
transportation
Packaging
Shipping
Others
DOE - Design of Experiments
Taguchi Methods
Test i nq and/or processi nq
Equipment - Many ADC's have the
capabil i ty to evaluate processing and
physical properties of the selected or
desired plastic. If they do not they can
network into other centers that can
obtain this information. Figure 4 shows
the networking capabilities of the ADC.
Materials Database - Each ADC has
the ability to connect to the engineering
design database, which contains the
materials module, along with a knowledge,
analysis, and utilities module. Figure 5
shows the main menu of this program and
Figures 6, 7, and 8 show the succeeding
menus. Figures 9a, 9b, and 9c show a
detailed menu of a snap latch beam
design. F i g u r e 10 s h o w s t h e r i b
stiffened analysis module. Figure 1 1
shows the Utilities Module Menu.
Marketinq Capabilities - Each ADC
has a full marketing s t a f f , with
excel 1 ent internal display spaces and
areas for product prototype examination.
A full array of sales, marketing, and
technical documents are avail able at each
1 ocat i on.
MARKETING AND SALES CAPABILITIES
Each ADC h a s a f u l l s a l e s and
market s t a f f which makes c o n t a c t w i t h
t h e customer and i s r e s p o n s i b l e f o r t h e
i n t r o d u c t i o n t o t h e ADC t e a m , and
a s s i s t s i n ensuring t h a t the p r o j e c t
o b j e c t i v e s a r e met.
E x p e r i e n c e has shown t h a t t h e s e
groups provide r e a l i s t i c goals,
o b j e c t i v e s , and t i m i n g . The f i r s t time
customer i s n o t g i v e n o v e r l y o p t i m i s t i c
expectations. T h i s may be t h e s e c r e t o f
t h e c o n t i n u i n g success o f these centers.
T h i s g r o u p a l s o a c t s as t h e
" c a t a l y s t " t o p r o v i d e "Technology
T r a n s f e r " t o t h e o r i g i n a l customers
organization. The n e x t s e c t i o n
d e s c r i b e s t h e customers educational
needs and how t h e y can be accomplished.
E D U C A T I O N AND/OR R E - E D U C A T I O N A N D
TRAINING
T r a i n i n g and e d u c a t i o n and/or
r e - e d u c a t i o n m u s t be c o n d u c t e d and
t r a n s f e r r e d through t h e e n t i r e customer
o r g a n i z a t i o n i n t h e f o l 1owing areas :
1) P l a s t i c Processing Techniques -
These are manufacturing methods
used t o form t h e p l a s t i c p a r t s .
2) P l a s t i c M a t e r i a l s P r o p e r t i e s -
These a r e t h e p r o p e r t i e s o f t h e
m a t e r i a l used i n t h e design and
concept stage. For these
p l a s t ic s m a t e r i a1 s, c r e e p and
r e l a x a t i o n p r o p e r t i e s become
much more i m p o r t a n t t h a n f o r
s t e e l m a t e r i a1 s.
3) P a r t s consol i d a t i o n - The unique
combination o f material
p r o p e r t i e s and m a n u f a c t u r i n g
techniques a l l o w expanded use o f
parts integration. Customer
o r g a n i z a t i o n design personnel
must be t a u g h t these techniques.
4) E n v i r o n m e n t a l a n d End Use
E f f e c t s - This combination o f
~ f f e c t sare obtained by a search
o f E n g i n e e r i n g Design Database
a n d t h e ADC e x p e r i e n c e o n
t y p i c a l products.
HOW IS THIS ACCOMPLISHED - There are
a t l e a s t seven ways o f u s i n g t h e items a t
t h e ADC. t o " T r a n s f e r t h e Technology" t o
t h e p a r e n t o r g a n i z a t i o n . These i n c l ude:
1) S e l f - s t u d y o f t h e p u b l i s h
t e c h n i c a l 1 it e r a t u r e ( A v a i 1 a b l e
a t t h e ADC).
2) Q u e r y t h e c o m p u t e r i z e d
e n g i n e e r i n g d e s i g n d a t a b a s e on
y o u r own computer t e r m i n a l - ( a
no charge s e r v i c e i s provided f o r
y o u a f t e r an i n i t i a l
registration).
3) Using t h e computerized a n a l y s i s
t o o l s ( a t t h e ADC) t o study t h e
processing and design performance
o f t h e proposed product,
4) Study o f past design p r o j e c t s ( a t
t h e ADC) by a s k i n g q u e s t i o n s o f
t h e team members i n v o l v e d , o r
querying t h e computerized p r o j e c t
files. A l l project data i s
s t o r e d i n a computerized program
c a l l ed "DOCU/MASTERM ( R e f e r e n c e
8).
5) Study o f t h e p a s t a p p l i c a t i o n s
w r i t t e n up i n t h e open SAE
l i t e r a t u r e (See Reference 9 on
"Designing f o r Thermoplastic
E x t e r i o r Body Panel Systems").
6) P a r t i c i p a t e i n a f o r m a l p l a s t i c
t r a i n i n g program c a l l e d "Sharing
t h e Know1 edge" (See r e f e r e n c e
10). This i s an e x c e l l e n t f i v e
day t r a i n i n g program w i t h f u l l
documentation ( 4 - 2 i n c h t h i c k ,
8% i n c h b y 11 i n c h b i n d e r s o f
m a t e r i a1 ) . [There i s a nominal
charge f o r t h i s class]. The
unique f e a t u r e o f t h i s i s t h a t
the material i s suitable for
i n t e r n a l t r a i n i n g a t y o u r own
s i t e . I t i s planned as a pyramid
t y p e scheme, where t h e p e r s o n
t a k i n g t h e course i s being
" t r a i n e d as a t r a i n e r " . This
person then goes back t o h i s own
o r g a n i z a t i o n and t r a i n s groups o f
o t h e r people, who i n t u r n do t h e
same t h i n g , u n t i l e v e r y o n e i s
t r a i n e d i n p l a s t i c product p a r t
design and manufacturing.
 P a r t i c i p a t e i n a Design f o r
M a n u f a c t u r i n g A n a l y s i s (DFM)
session f o r p l a s t i c product
design. T h i s i n v o l v e s a s t u d y o f
t h e product w i t h the software
c a l l e d " B o o t h r o y d Dewhurst I n c . ,
D e s i g n f o r Assembly" l o a d e d on a
PC. Personnel have been t r a i n e d i n
t h i s technique.
BENEFITS TO YOUR COMPANY
The use f o r a P l a s t i c s A p p l i c a t i o n
Development C e n t e r b y an o r g a n iz a t ion
yields the following benefits.
p r o v i d e s an:
1) E x c e l l e n t s i n g l e s o u r c e o f
up-to-date technical information.
(Cost savings r e s u l t , i n t h a t t h e
Corporate I n f o r m a t i o n C e n t e r does
n o t have t o a c q u i r e a l l o f t h e
l i t e r a t u r e on p l a s t i c s ) .
2) I n s t a n t s o u r c e o f r e a l w o r l d
automotive examples.
3 ) I n s t a n t s o u r c e o f p r o d u c t and
p r o c e s s i n g experience.
4) E x c e l l e n t method o f s p e e d i n g up
t h e p l a s t i c s technology t r a n s f e r .
5) E f f e c t i v e way o f b u i l d i n g a l o n g
term r e l a t i o n s h i p w i t h a r e l i a b l e
suppl ie r and/or design p a r t n e r .
The o n l y d i s a d v a n t a g e t h a t t h e
a u t h o r s encountered was t h a t no easy way
e x i s t e d f o r documenting t r a i t s needed i n
h i r i n g y o u r own team members. Every
engineer manager knows what t o l o o k f o r
i n h i r i n g a good e x t e r i o r body p a n e l
d e s i g n e r , o r e n g i n e e r w o r k i n g as an
i n d i v i d u a l , b u t what d i f f e r e n t t r a i t s
a r e needed when t h i s same person i s t o
be h i r e d as a team member. T h i s w i l l be
t h e s u b j e c t o f another f u t u r e paper.
SUMMARY
This paper has provided a
d e s c r i p t i o n o f t h e use o f a P l a s t i c s
A p p l i c a t i o n Development Center t o a i d a
automotive manufacturer i n t h e design o f
plastic parts. Specific features o f
these c e n t e r s a r e d e s c r i b e d along w i t h
t h e b e n e f i t s o f i t s use. Issues o f
Technology T r a n s f e r , f u r t h e r t r a i n i n g ,
and t e a m member c a p a b i l i t i e s and
s e l e c t i o n a r e d i s c u s s e d .
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The a u t h o r s w i s h t o e x p r e s s t h e i r
g r a t i t u d e t o C h r y s l e r C o r p o r a t i o n and
General E l e c t r i c C o r p o r a t i o n f o r making
t h i s pub1 i c a t i o n p o s s i b l e . Special
t h a n k s a r e e x t e n d e d t o P e t e r Meissner,
Maurice I s a a c and K e v i n Smith ( f o r t h e i r
he1 p i n a n s w e r i n g q u e s t i o n s ) . Special
t h a n k s a r e e x t e n d e d t o Mark B l a c k , and
Theresa Ford f o r t h e i r help i n the
g r a p h i c s and f i n a l t y p i n g o f t h i s paper.
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P l a s t i c s Commercial T r a i n i n g , 1989
(Modules 1 - F a m i l y o f Polymers
t h r o u g h Module 10 D e s i g n and
Performance),
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RIBBED PLATE / I - D MOLDCOOUNG/ BASIC GEOMETRY

SNAP-FIT / RADW FLOW LENGIH

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Figure 5 ENGINEERING DESIGN DATABASE (EDD)
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ENGINEERING DATA UNTTS:BRITISH
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1) TENSILE STRESS-STRAIN
2) TENSILE CREEP
3) GEFOAMS DATABASE
4) TENSILE FATIGUE
5) COEFFICIEhT OF THERMAL EXPANSION
6) RHEOLOGY
7) SPECIFIC HEAT
8) THERMAL CONDUCTIVIlY
9) FLEXURAL DYNAMIC MECHANICALANALYSIS
10) SHEAR DYNAMIC MECHANICAL ANALYSIS

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Figure 6 EDD - ENGINEERING DATA MENU.

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ANALYSIS
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1 ) HAVIAL DISK FLOW LENGTH (MOU)FILL!NU HESULTS) 1;
2) RIB STIFFENED PLATE Analysis
3) 1-D MOLDCOOUNG Analysis
4) BASIC GEOM€rRY Analysis
5) SNAP-FIT DESIGN Analysis (VT10014014)

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Figure 9a EDD - ANALYSIS MODULE MENU No. 5 -

SNAP FIT ANALYSIS.

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Figure 9b SNAP FIT ANALYSIS - Figure 9c SNAP FIT ANALYSIS-

BEAM GEOMETRY DISPLAY. MATERIAL PROPERTY
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1 Plate Width (horizontal) ................................ 10.0000 IN
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Number of Diagonal ribs, from top left........... 0
10 Orthogonal Rib Geometry............................ Rectangular
11 Diagonal Rib Geometry............................... Rectangular
12 Boundary Condition.................................... Simply supp.
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Figure 10 EDD - ANALYSIS MODULE No.2

RIB STIFFENED ANALYSIS.

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REQUESTICOMMENTS FOR SOFTWARE
SUMMARY OF TESTED MATERIALS

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