Simulate your complete plastic injection molding process and optimize your part design, mold design, and manufacturing process. Create high-quality plastic products correctly, the first time, and avoid potential manufacturing defects, getting you to market quickly.
Simulation Moldflow software provides simulation tools for injection mold design, plastic part design, and the injection molding design process. Simulation Moldflow Adviser Ultimate software helps reduce the need for costly physical prototypes, avoids potential manufacturing defects, and helps bring innovative products to market faster.
Moldflow Insight vs. Moldflow Adviser
Compare the features of Simulation Moldflow® Adviser vs. Simulation Moldflow® Insight to learn how this software can help meet your organization’s needs.
| Simulation Moldflow products | Adviser | Insight | ||||
| EDITIONS | Standard | Premium | Ultimate | Standard | Premium | Ultimate |
| MESHING* | ||||||
| Dual domain | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 3D | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Midplane | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| CAD INTEROPERABILITY | ||||||
| CAD solid models | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Parts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Assemblies | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| SIMULATION CAPABILITIES | ||||||
| Filling | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Weld line, air trap, sink mark | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gate location | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Molding window | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Venting analysis | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Design of experiments (DOE) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Crystallization analysis | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Runner balancing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Packing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Cooling | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Conformal cooling** | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Transient mold cooling or heating | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Rapid temperature cycling | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Warpage | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Fiber orientation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Insert overmolding | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| In-mold label | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Two-shot sequential overmolding | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Core shift | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Wire sweep, paddle shift | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| SIMULATION ADVISERS | ||||||
| Design adviser | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Results adviser | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Cost adviser | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| MOLDING PROCESSES | ||||||
| Thermoplastic injection molding | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reactive injection and transfer molding | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Rubber, liquid silicone injection molding | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Multiple-barrel reactive molding | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Structural reaction injection molding | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Microchip encapsulation | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Underfill encapsulation | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| Gas-assisted injection molding | ✓ | |||||
| Injection-compression molding | ✓ | |||||
| Compression molding | ✓ | |||||
| Co-injection molding | ✓ | |||||
| Bi-injection molding | ✓ | |||||
| MuCell | ✓ | |||||
| Birefringence | ✓ | |||||
| DATABASES | ||||||
| Thermoplastics materials | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Thermoset materials | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Molding machines | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Coolant materials | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Mold materials | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| SOFTWARE INTERFACE | ||||||
| Simulation Mechanical (FEA) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Abaqus (FEA) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| ANSYS (FEA) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| LS-DYNA (FEA) | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| NEi Nastran (FEA) | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| CODE V (Birefringence) | ✓ | |||||
| Showcase (defect visualization) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SUPPORTED LANGUAGES | ||||||
| English | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Chinese (Simplified) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Chinese (Traditional) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| French | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| German | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Italian | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Japanese | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Portuguese | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Spanish | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Korean | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| INCLUDED SOFTWARE & SERVICES | ||||||
| Inventor Fusion | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vault | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Simulation Moldflow Communicator | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
