Design Features That Influence Product Performance

Different techniques or methodologies are used to analyze premature molded product failures. Throughout this book the design problems (with solutions) that could cause failures are discussed. This chapter concentrates on this subject by providing more details. A variety of auditing methods and computer software programs are used or developed by molders to provide an analysis of potential problems. Although the actual time and cost to design a product may represent less than 5% of the total time and cost, the influence on the performance and cost of the final fabricated molded product is enormous.