Course Structure
Mold Design is taught over two consecutive eight-hour days in-person or online. The course begins by identifying the five key systems of a mold: melt delivery, cooling, structural, venting, and ejection. Discussions follow featuring the foundations of each system and how they all affect the formation of the plastic part and the final part quality.
Participants will take part in three different labs: a mold tear down and assembly, mold print reading, and a cooling cart demonstration.
Attendees will gain the ability to evaluate mold design based on the five systems and recognize design features that could be improved.
Course Highlights
- Lab 1: Mold tear down and assembly
- Lab 2: Reading mold prints
- Lab 3: Cooling cart
- Selecting a 2-Plate versus 3-plate mold base
- Understanding in-mold pressure drop and its variables
- Series versus parallel mold cooling designs
- Strategies for optimizing mold cooling
- How to verify turbulent flow
- Baffles and bubblers
- Structural considerations in plate deflection
- Core/cavity alignment and pocketing techniques
- Ejection strategies for forming undercuts
- Types of hot and cold runner systems
- Runner sizing strategies
- Gate design and location strategies
- Venting details and strategies
What’s Included
In-person:
- All course materials, including:
- Course book
- Calculators, pens, pencils, etc…
- Daily breakfast and lunch
- Certificate of Attendance
Online:
- Course PDF
- Certificate of Attendance
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