Date: TBD
Time:
8:30am – 4:00pm
Where: Attend in person at The Polymers Center
8900 Research Drive
Charlotte, NC 28262
Cost: $1,195
Instructor:
Suhas Kulkarni
Mr. Kulkarni has 30 years of experience as a process engineer. His main area of expertise is Scientific Processing for Injection Molding. He holds a Master’s degree in Plastics Engineering and is the author of the best-selling book Robust Process Development and Scientific Molding.
He has been teaching courses in Injection Molding Processing for the last 23 years and has worked as a Process Engineer for 14 years before he started FIMMTECH INC based in San Diego, CA. More info is available on www.fimmtech.com
Syllabus
Day 1
- Introduction to Scientific Processing and Scientific Molding
- Challenges in Injection Molding Process Development
- Required basics of Polymer Morphology, the PVT diagram, Data Sheets
- The 11+2 Inputs and 10 Output of an Injection Molding Process
- Process Development 1: Scientific Molding
- Melt Preparation
- The 6-Step Study
- Process developed after the SIM studies
- Challenges with the process developed by SIM only
Day 2
- Process Development 2: Design of Experiments (DOE)
- What is a DOE?
- History of DOEs
- Is SIM the same as DOE?
- The theory and Basics of DOE
- Types of Experimental Designs
- Orthogonal Arrays
- Interactions
- Confounding and Aliasing of factors
