Scientific Molding Overview
1 Day Overview
- Industry Introduction/Purpose
- Profit margins
- Costing\Economics
- What is your product
- Strategies for Molding
- Components of a successful plastics application
- Concurrent engineering and its benefits
- Industry trends
- The four key variables in processing
- The Universal Set-Up Sheet
- Understanding Plastic Flow
- Water vs. plastic
- Using an injection molding machine as a rheometer
- Plastic Flow; Melt Flow Rate vs. viscosity vs. shear rate
- Strategies for Processing and Part Design
- Plastic flow video
- Mold filling analysis in perspective
- Process Control Strategies, a Six Sigma Strategy
- Machine basic functions
- Cruise Control
- Velocity Control
- Delta P and the flow control valve
- Two stage molding
- Development of the technique
- Typical Process monitoring characteristics
- Hydraulic pressure vs. time plots
- Gate seal vs. gate unseal
- Summary and Questions
