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Plastics: Injection Mold Fundamentals
- Course Format
Advantage™- Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
- 0.0
- Training Time ?
- 52 to 104 minutes
- Language(s)
- English
- Browsers Supported
- IE Desktop
- Required Plugins
- MasteryNet Player
- Closed Captioning
- No
- Lesson Interactions
- 51
- Quiz Questions
- 41
- Product ID
- ardsmd01
- Interactive Producer
- A. Routsis Associates
- Original Content Producer
- A. Routsis Associates
Overview
This training is the first of a 9-course series, created with help from many of the world’s leading tool manufacturers and suppliers. Injection Mold Fundamentals familiarizes the learner with molds and their basic functions. Also covered is the relationship between the part design and the mold design.
- Rich multimedia presentation with interactions and quiz
- Print certificate and wallet card
- You have 60 days to complete the course
Audience
Any worker who is or who is training to be a tool designer, mold maker, engineer, part designer, or anyone involved in the tool procurement process.
Topics
The course presents the following topical areas:
- Definition of a Mold
- Four Functions of an Injection Mold
- Part Design
- Material Shrinkage
- Injection Mold Design Factors
- Production Requirements
- Molding Machine Specifications
Intended Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course you will be better prepared to:
- Recognize that molds are high-precision tools built to produce plastic parts.
- Know the four basic functions that an injection mold must perform.
- Understand the relationship between part design and mold design.
- Know that material shrinkage can be represented in several different ways.
- Know how to properly interpret a part design.
- Identify many of the common mold design requirements.
- Know that molding machines have many components that affect mold design.
