Dates:
To be verified
Duration: The course is run over 6 webinars, every Tuesday morning over 6 weeks, each of 3 hour duration, with short breaks.
Location: Online
Accreditation: Essentials of Mould Design
Full Fee: €650
Course code: 5N4317
Programme overview
Introduction to Injection Mould Design- Online. Recorded lectures will be available after.
3 x 1 hour sessions x 6 weeks. Every Wednesday morning.
- 09:00AM
- 10:30AM
- 12:00 noon
- last session will be an assignment tutorial.
The program assumes no prior knowledge or ability to design an injection mould tool. The program covers the basics of plastic injection mould design and is intended to provide a platform for those wishing to undertake mould design. The course will assist those engaged in the art of machine setting with a greater understanding of the influence the mould tool has on part quality, output volume and process efficiency. This course is an essential foundation for setters, part designers and mould designers working or wishing to work in the injection moulding industry.
*Please note CAD software is not required for this course.
Follow on courses recommended:
Who is the course for
Injection Moulding Technicians, Engineers, and Management who have a responsibility for ordering, modifying or replacing injection moulds will gain most benefit from this course. A better understanding of mould design theory will greatly assist in obtaining optimised moulds and reducing mould commissioning times.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion, students will be able to:
- Understand the design and function of a 2-Plate and a 3-Plate mould.
- Be able to select a gate to production requirement.
- Be able to design a mould cooling system, a basic mould feed system and a mould ejection system.
- Be able to combine LOI3-6 into a mould design.
- Be able to undertake a basic appraisal of a new injection moulded component.
- Be able to differentiate between a part design fault, a mould design fault, a material fault and a processing defect.
Course Content:
- The injection Moulding Machine and its Influence on Mould design
- The 2-Plate mould
- Exercise: Design the layout of a 2-Plate mould
- Polymer melt flow.
- Gating and Feeding
- Cooling.
- Ejection techniques
- Estimation of ejection force
- The 3-Plate mould
- Stack Moulds
- Undercut Moulds
- Exercise: Design the layout of a 3-Plate mould
- Prototype moulds and techniques
- Mould tool construction materials
- Exercise: Calculation of mould plate deflection
- Runnerless moulds
- Exercise: Design and Layout of a Runnerles mould
- Standard mould parts
- Plastic product design for injection moulding
- Injection mould fault appraisal and analysis
- Exercise: Undertake moulded fault appraisal
- Tutorial covering the assignment
- 1-Hour examination
– A tutorial covering the course Assignment
Trainer Profile
Peter Cracknell has over 40 years experience in the Plastics Industry. He has served his time as an injection mould toolmaker (Metal Box), production engineer (Metal Box), senior production engineer (BOC), senior lecturer (LSPT), academic leader in polymer engineering (LSPT), Consulting engineer.
Expertise: Injection moulded part and mould tool design, plastic materials, processing trouble shooting, lecturing (30 years), BETC assessor for NVQ in Polymer Engineering, expert witness (30 years experience).
Qualifications: HNC Mechanical & Prod Eng, GradPRI – ALSPT First Class hons. C&G Risk Assessment, BTEC NVQ Assessor
Find out how to achieve a Major Award in Injection Moulding (Level 5)
This programme is a QQI component (minor) award, certified at Level 5 on the national framework of qualifications – see www.nfq.ie and is an elective component of major award 5M3080 – Plastics Injection Moulding .
