Moldflow Releases Part Adviser Version 2.0

Moldflow Corporation announces Release 2.0 of Part Adviser -- software used to determine the manufacturability of injection molded plastic parts. The updated version enables design teams to effectively drive product optimization during the preliminary part design phase.

Part Adviser 2.0 features improved integration with solid modeling computer-aided design (CAD) software, extendable solution depth, advanced adviser capabilities, Internet-ready reports, and an improved material database.

Part Adviser 2.0 allows the user to explicitly set the injection pressure limit, injection time, and mold and melt temperature. In addition, the software now displays injection pressure, pressure drop and flow-front temperature results. Moldflow recognizes that some companies routinely operate at the extremes of processing conditions. Some use very aggressive manufacturing guidelines, while others want to operate in the middle of the process window. New environment preferences in Release 2 allow users to customize the processing conditions to reflect their business practice -- for all analyses or just a single session.

Part Adviser 2.0 is available for immediate shipment on the following computer systems: Windows 95, (Intel) and Windows NT (Intel and Digital Alpha) as well as the leading UNIX system platforms from Silicon Graphics, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM and Sun Microsystems.