Seminar Outline
- Introduction & Overview
- Purpose
- Perspectives on the plastics' industry, manufacturing
- Profits
- What is your product
- The components of a successful plastic's application
- Concurrent engineering and its benefits
- The four molding variables
- Machine conditions vs. Plastic conditions
- Processing Guidelines
- Starting off True North
- Five Plastic Variables
- Machine vs. Plastic conditions
- Detailed Process optimization at the press
- Common Molding Problems: Causes and Solutions; Class Picks Topics!
- Splay
- Color streaking, swirls, marbling
- Bubbles in clear parts
- Pin (ejector) push marks, see also parts sticking
- Shorts, sinks, record grooves or waves
- Flash
- Warp/Dimensional Stability
- Burns
- Black Specks
- Worm Tracks or Jetting
- Brittleness
- Contamination
- Delamination
- Weldlines
- Poor living hinge life
- Gate Blush
- Gloss, and gloss gradients
- Hot Runner issues
- Infrared Thermography
- Plus any topic of your choice