Berkala Penelitian Teknologi Kulit, Sepatu, dan Produk Kulit
Vol. 23 No. 2 (2024): Berkala Penelitian Kulit, Sepatu, dan Produk Kulit

STRATEGY FOR REDUCING HDPE MATERIAL PRODUCT DEFECTS IN THE INJECTION MOLDING PROCESS WITH TAGUCHI METHOD

Muhammad Ikhwan (Department of Plastic and Rubber Processing Technology, Politeknik ATK Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
Diana Yuliastuti (Department of Plastic and Rubber Processing Technology, Politeknik ATK Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia)



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16 Dec 2024

Abstract

We often encounter injection plastic products around us. Some of the advantages of plastic materials are lightweight, flexible, multipurpose, strong, not reacting, not rusty, thermoplastic (heat seal), can be colored and the price is cheap. The production process that is often used in the plastic industry is Injection Molding. In the Injection Molding process, the determination of machine parameter settings greatly affects the quality of production results. Determination of the right parameter settings can reduce the defect on the resulting product. This research was made as an effort to reduce the percentage of defects in the injection molding process with the Taguchi method. The research was conducted at the Plastic Workshop of ATK Polytechnic Yogyakarta using an Injection Molding machine type SM 90 HCV. The raw material used in this study is High-density polyethylene (HDPE) with the resulting product output in the form of packaging boxes. This study was conducted with testing samples of 90 packaged products. Based on this research, the results were obtained, among others, in the injection molding production process resulting in minimal defect values at the setting of Injection Speed level 1 10%, Injection Pressure level 3 150 bar, Plastisification (Position) level 3 180 mm and Temperature level 3 2400C. Interpretation of the results of the confirmation experiment for mean values is acceptable in consideration of the confidence interval that the results of the confirmatory experiment are smaller than the optimal results. With this, it can be concluded that this research can be implemented to improve the quality of packaging products for the Injection Molding Process.

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Berkala Penelitian Teknologi Kulit, Sepatu dan produk Kulit is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that publishes original research articles, review articles, as well as short communication in all areas of basic and applied chemistry. Berkala Penelitian Teknologi Kulit, Sepatu dan produk Kulit ...