Introduction

Automotive and consumer electronics are two disparate industries that rely heavily on injection molding. Moreover, they both involve updating of products on a regular basis. Both these industries have been leaders in the development of concurrent engineering, meaning the parallelization of tasks from inception to manufacture. Regardless of the degree to which concurrent engineering is practiced, there is no doubt that simulation is a valuable aid in linking design to manufacture. For injection molding, the benefit of simulation is based on the fact that it is cheaper and faster to avoid problems in the design phase than to fix them in production.