Join Andy Routsis, founder and president of A. Routsis Associates, as he discusses ten quick and easy ways to verify the quality of your molded parts.

The tips provided in this presentation are simple but effective and include industry tests involving; solvents, water, light, heat, regrind, weight, and viscosity.

This webinar will benefit any employee involved in the engineering, processing, validation, and inspection of plastic parts. All attendees will receive follow-up materials which can be used to ensure that the verification process at their facility results in the shipping of quality molded parts.

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There is money you haven’t found yet. Little treasures in your business just waiting to be uncovered. Here are a few places to start digging.

1. Start Testing
It’s time to stop making do with products that were less expensive and are actually costing you money. Mold releases, for example, come in all varieties and formulations, some more expensive than others. However, we have found you can use a lot less mold release and be even more effective, by using more powerful formulations. In other words, get more production from a slightly more powerful product. Free trial samples are available to test your molding procedures, and see if a different formulation will actually save you money.

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The techniques of Scientific Molding and Design of Experiments (DOE) are commonly used for establishing processes in Injection Molding. Although completely different, the techniques are often confused and the sequence of performing these is always a question that has been asked several times. The first part of the two part series will introduce the two techniques and provide a flow chart for optimizing the molding process using these techniques.

The second part of the two part series will introduce the concept of Aesthetic and Dimensional Process Windows. Results from the Design of Experiments provide process parameters that will yield an acceptable process to meet the quality requirements. However, this process that yields dimensionally acceptable parts may not be robust, since it may be in a cosmetically unacceptable area with possibilities of defects such as short shots or flash. The talk will focus on this aspect of the process qualification process.

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• Part 1 April 7 (2pm EDT)
• Part 2 April 9 (2pm EDT)

Pocket Specs for Injection Molding provides you with a compact guide for the injection molding of thermoplastic and thermoset materials. Data are provided for thousands of individual grades of molding materials from 260 manufacturers. The data provided in the tables are intended to give you the basic information for determining regrind levels, material drying temperatures and times, and initial machine settings for injection pressure, barrel heats, and mold temperature. Additional physical property data include specific gravity, shrink data, melt flow, and processing temperature ranges.

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