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The use of Taguchi method in the design of plastic injection mould for reducing warpage Abstract Plastic injection moulding is one of the most important polymer processing operations in the plastic industry today. However, lack of skill in mould making and injection moulding machine control will lead to defective plastic product. Warpage is one type of defect that usually appears in products with thickness less than 1?mm. This project is going to fabricate a mould that produced a thin plate with dimension 120?mm?×?50?mm?×?1?mm. The thin plate will be used for warpage testing. In mould fabrication, the mould base that purchase will be machined and assembled. After that, the mould is fixed on the injection moulding machine. The machine setting should be made to produce the product. Then, the product will be used for testing on the effective factors in warpage problem by applying the experimental design of Taguchi method. From the results, it shows that the most effective factor on the warpage is melt temperature. The filling time only slightly influenced on the warpage. The optimum parameters that can minimize the warpage defect are melt temperature (240?°C), filling time (0.5?s), packing pressure (90%) and packing time (0.6?s). Keywords: Plastic injection mould; Taguchi methods; Experimental design; Warpage 1. Introduction Mould making is a important supporting industry because their related products represent more than 70％ among the components in consumer products. The high demand for shorter design and manufacturing lead times, good dimensionality and overall quality, and rapid design changes has become the bottlenecks in mould industries [1]. It is a complicated process, and required skilled and experienced mould maker. Generally, injection moulding is one of the most important polymer processing operations in the plastid industry today. Approximately one-third of all plastic are converted into parts using injection moulding [2]. This is one of