Design for Manufacture

Course Description

• Materials technology
• Product design principles related to processing
• Design study
• Design for performance/stiffness
• Injection moulding machine
• Injection moulding cycle
• Moulding principles practical

• Design for strength/behaviour over time
• Design exercise/practical
• Injection moulding principles practical continued
• Design for impact performance/appearance
• Design optimisation and simulation
• Mould tooling principles

• Design exercise review
• Mould tooling practical
• Mould tool manufacturing techniques (optimal)
• Injection moulding practical
• Multi-shot injection moulding principles

• Principles of in-mould labelling
• Flow properties of thermoplastics materials
• Component faults and quality issues
• Practical exercises
• Design for manufacture
• Design for manufacture exercise