Silicone rubber mold is regarded as an important method of reducing the cost and time to market in a new product development process. Commercial automatic vacuum machine is widely used to degas in the manufacturing of silicone rubber mold, but the cost of hardware is very expensive. A high efficiency degassing system is designed and implemented from regular vacuum machine. It is found that degassing process includes explosion phase, balance phase and convergence phase. The maximum saving in the degassing time is about 63.7%. The advantages of this system include reducing human error of operator, reducing noise and air pollutions derived from the vacuum pump.
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