Real Molding Data. Real Material Insights.
Selecting the right polymer requires a level of precision that legacy, isothermal tests simply cannot provide. Therma-flo™ software closes this gap by leveraging the Beaumont Moldometer to capture direct, nonisothermal data from real mold channels. We organize this proprietary data into Material Molding Maps—clear, visual tools that reveal how a polymer truly behaves. This data-driven mapping system gives you the clarity to optimize designs and accelerate production with confidence.
Who Benefits from
Therma-flo™?
Polymer Developers & Compounders
- Better advise customers on application requirements and how their materials will mold
- Improve customer support through data-driven recommendations and clearer performance expectations
- Accelerate formulation/compound development
- Predict molding performance earlier
- Reduce trial and error iterations
- Improve alignment between lab data and real molding outcomes
- Serve customers more effectively by providing data that reflects real molding performance
- Therma-flo™ strengthens both material development and customer support
Molders
- Clear insight into pressure sensitivity of a melt
- Understanding of how melt temperature affects flow
- Guidance on selecting injection velocities
- Data-driven support for solving mold filling problems
Designers
- Evaluate the impact of wall thickness and its changes on cavity filling pressure
- Contrast polymers for manufacturability
- Evaluate second source polymer performance
- Identify potential molding risks early
- Improve part design robustness
What You'll Receive
- Login credentials to the Therma-flo™ web application, where your results may be reviewed
- A meeting with our team to review the Therma-flo™ software and your data. In this web meeting you will review:
- Introduction and overview of the web application
- How to navigate the web application
- Interpretation of your results
- Access to multiple Material Molding Maps to begin interpreting your data. Examples of molding maps include:
- Flow Behavior Maps
- Geometry Sensitivity Maps
- Material Comparison Maps
- Thermal Influence Maps
- Molding Viscosity Maps
The Beaumont Moldometer
Traditional isothermal capillary rheometers were designed for extrusion, not molding. They measure polymer flow through heated channels, heated conditions that do not exist inside an injection mold. The Beaumont Moldometer was created specifically to capture the true, nonisothermal behavior of polymer melts during mold filling. Each material characterization test produces up to 6,000 unique data traces, revealing how the melt responds as the frozen layer develops and flow conditions change. Data is based on real molding behavior, not an approximation.
Therma-flo™: Turning Raw Data Into Insight
Therma-flo™ manages the Beaumont Moldometer data and organizes it into Material Molding Maps – clear, visual outputs that show how a polymer behaves under a wide variety of realistic molding conditions. Therma-flo™ is not a simulation program. It is a data-driven mapping system that:
- Analyzes pressure, velocity, and temperature interactions
- Evaluates wall thickness sensitivity of a polymer melt
- Quantifies melt temperature effects on pressure
- Contrasts multiple polymers under identical conditions
Therma-flo™ Material Molding Maps
Therma-flo generates several categories of maps that support manufacturability evaluation. These maps provide a complete picture of how a polymer behaves inside a mold — something no legacy isothermal method can offer. Examples of molding maps include:
