Assembly in Action: Manufacturer Gets a Hand With Handles
Interior grab handles are injection-molded parts. They cannot be dropped from the mold because the surfaces are soft and easily damaged. The eight core pieces must also be automatically loaded into the injection mold at each cycle. There must be zero missing pieces.
Ten minutes of forced convection cooling, prior to the pieces being manually handled, is required. Additional in-mold cooling time is not an option, because increased cycle time reduces production output and increases cost. The pieces must be cool enough to allow for required manual assembly prior to packaging for shipment.