The following report conducted with the collaboration with the University of Halmstad

and Halmstad Gummi Fabric (HGF) rubber company which is in Halmstad.

The focus on the project is to reduce the cost of the transfer mold material, increase

efficiency of production, save energy and redesign the transfer mold.

The methodology used in this project is based on the Quality Functional Deployment

(QFD) which is widely appreciated globally in the product development, and other

product development and mold design methods, FEM analysis are applied to achieve

the goals.

The implementation of this methods is efficient and beneficial to reduce the material

cost and redesign the transfer mold without compromising the initial quality of the

product.

This thesis resulted in, for the transfer molding plates we recommended the proper

material for the plates and the insulation parts. And we redesign the transfer mold

plates and optimized the design for reducing the cost. We did FEM analysis for

optimization purpose, and the benefits to optimizing this is to reduce the material cost,

machining cost and labour cost. As well as, we add the insulation plates in the design

so that the transfer molding plates works efficiently with the reducing the energy wastes.