Suitable Die Shaping for a Rectangular Shape Bottle by Application of FEM and AI Technique

The characteristic requirement for producing
rectangular shape bottles was a uniform thickness of the plastic bottle
wall. Die shaping was a good technique which controlled the wall
thickness of bottles. An advance technology which was the finite
element method (FEM) for blowing parison to be a rectangular shape
bottle was conducted to reduce waste plastic from a trial and error
method of a die shaping and parison control method. The artificial
intelligent (AI) comprised of artificial neural network and genetic
algorithm was selected to optimize the die gap shape from the FEM
results. The application of AI technique could optimize the suitable
die gap shape for the parison blow molding which did not depend on
the parison control method to produce rectangular bottles with the
uniform wall. Particularly, this application can be used with cheap
blow molding machines without a parison controller therefore it will
reduce cost of production in the bottle blow molding process.

• N. Ploysook
• R. Rugsaj
• C. Suvanjumrat

• AI
• bottle
• die shaping
• FEM.

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