Advanced Thermoforming: Methods, Machines and Materials, Applications and Automation (Hardcover)

Introduces the latest innovations in thermoforming materials, processes, and applications

Advanced Thermoforming brings readers fully up to date with the latest standards, processes, materials, and applications in the field. From forming to filling to sealing processes, the author explains everything that can now be accomplished using the most advanced thermoforming technologies available. Moreover, readers learn how to fully leverage these technologies in order to design and manufacture products that meet all specifications at minimum cost and maximum efficiency.

Emphasizing the application of advanced thermoforming for the production of technical parts and packaging, the book:

• Guides readers through all facets of development, design, and machine and mold technology

• Recommends new technologies that offer higher productivity, better quality, and lower costs

• Describes common raw materials used in thermoforming, including how specific materials affect the production process

• Explains the proper handling of semi-finished products and formed parts

• Sets forth the basic principles of extrusion, an essential process underlying thermoforming

• Introduces the latest software techniques to simulate the thermoforming of new products

Throughout the book, readers learn about the latest innovations in thermoforming, from thermoformed automobile body parts to fully automated packaging assembly lines. The author offers valuable content from his interviews with leading industrial thermoformers, sharing insights and tips from their years of hands-on experience with readers.

With Advanced Thermoforming as their guide, polymer and plastics engineering professionals and students can now explore and exploit the full range of possibilities that thermoforming technology offers.

《先進熱成型技術》介紹了熱成型材料、工藝和應用的最新創新。本書全面介紹了該領域的最新標準、工藝、材料和應用，從成型到灌裝到密封工藝，作者解釋了如何利用最先進的熱成型技術實現各種成就。此外，讀者還將學習如何充分利用這些技術，以最低成本和最高效率設計和製造符合所有規格的產品。

本書強調了先進熱成型在技術零部件和包裝生產中的應用，包括：
- 引導讀者了解開發、設計、機器和模具技術的各個方面
- 推薦提高生產力、質量和降低成本的新技術
- 描述了熱成型中常用的原材料，包括特定材料對生產過程的影響
- 解釋了半成品和成型件的正確處理方法
- 介紹了熱成型的基本原理，這是熱成型的基礎過程
- 介紹了模擬新產品熱成型的最新軟件技術

在整本書中，讀者將了解熱成型的最新創新，從熱成型汽車車身零部件到完全自動化的包裝裝配線。作者通過與領先的工業熱成型專家的訪談，與讀者分享他們多年的實踐經驗，提供了寶貴的內容和技巧。

有了《先進熱成型技術》作為指南，聚合物和塑料工程專業人士以及學生現在可以探索和利用熱成型技術所提供的全部可能性。