INTRODUCTION FOR PLASTIC INJECTION MOULD DESIGN – WITH 10 PROVEN DESIGNS
Injection mould design plays an important part in the quality and cost of a product. Specifically designed for technical personnel in the plastic industry who wish to deepen their knowledge of injection mould design with ten proven designs.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
- Terminologies used in injection mould design
- Classification of injection moulds
- Mould construction selection
- Mould components selection
- Analysis of proven mould design – what works and what does not
COURSE CONTENT
DAY 1
- Calculations and data required during designing an injection mould
- Classification of injection moulds
- Wall thickness calculation
- Draft angle
- Temperature control
- Fastening of inserts
- Number of cavities
- Costing
- Mould opening & ejection force
- Shrinkage
- Runner systems & gating design
- Sizing of sprues & runners
- Self degating moulds
- Insulated sprue bushing
- Insulated runner system
- Hot runner molds
- Ejection systems
- General
- Flat parts without ejectors
- Deep parts
- Stripper plate
- Air ejection
- Unscrewing devices
- Undercuts
- External undercuts
- External threads
- Internal undercuts
- Internal threads
DAY 2
- Demoulding methods
- Mechanical core pullers
- Hydraulic core pullers
- Sliders
- Lifters
- Venting
- Passive venting
- Active venting
- Heat exchange system
- Cooling time
- Thermal diffusivity
- Heat flux and heat exchange capacity
- Practical design of cooling systems
- Mould making techniques
- Machining techniques
- Electrical Discharge Machining
- Etching
- Materials for injection moulds
- Case hardened steel
- Nitrided steel
- Corrosion resistant steel
- Berylium copper
- Coating
- Maintenance of injection moulds
- Scheduling
- Storage
- Repairs and alterations
TARGET AUDIENCE
Specifically designed for technical personnel in the plastic industry who wish to deepen their knowledge of injection moulds. A variety of people will benefit from this course include:
- Product designers, Mould designers
- Mould makers
- Moulding engineers
- Process engineers
- Project engineers
- Manufacturing engineers
- Production engineers
- Any technical personnel involved with plastic injection moulded parts
PREREQUISITE
- None
TRAINING METHODOLOGY
- This course is conducted in a seminar room
- Interactive and action based with personal examples.
- Combination of short lectures, visual presentations, workshops, demonstrations, simulations
and games. More emphasis is placed on workshops to allow the participants to learn the
material presented in a fun and easy manner. - Participants are expected to bring along their real life issues for discussion
DURATION
- 2 days
