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At the same time, this technology is a highly non-linear process in which many factors affect the product quality during long-run fabrication processes. Therefore, in order to grasp changes in the characteristics of plastic materials and product quality monitoring, the injection process has become an important research topic. We installed sensors in the molding machine (injection barrel, nozzle, and mold-cavity) to collect the melting pressure and used different materials (semi-crystalline and amorphous polymer; the melting-fill-index (MFI) is unified to 14.5 \u00b1 0.5 g\/10 min) to explore the influences of melting pressure variation and its viscosity index on the quality characteristics of molded products. The experiment reveals that a combination of barrel, nozzle, and mold-cavity sensing on the melt-pressure trend-based injection process-control incorporated with viscosity index monitoring can confirm the weight and shrinkage variation of the injection product. At the same time, the pressure and viscosity index value measured and calculated during the melt-filling of two materials with similar MI resulted in significant variations in the amorphous polymer. 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