Make Perfect Plastic Parts: Material Characterization for Success

The need to shorten product development timelines while mitigating risk is a real challenge for designers and program managers. While significant time and effort is spent on the design and material selection of a given component, the focus on how the part will be manufactured is often limited. This silo-ed approach can lead to unexpected delays or performance issues when first article parts are received. Many molders and tool designers will turn to injection molding simulation tools, like Autodesk Moldflow, to help mitigate this time crunch. Additionally, they will use the results to make data-driven decisions regarding their mold design and overall process. However, confidence in the results needs to be high. This webinar will focus on how proper material characterization of your thermoplastic resins can improve the confidence of your tooling strategies, and better identify risks that may need to be mitigated.

After the seminar, attendees will have a better understanding on how their material characterization can influence their confidence in make decisions regarding:

1. The gating strategy and pressures required to fill the mold.
2. The tendency for parts to develop sink marks or voids due to narrow limited packing.
3. Predicted shrinkage rates and tolerances selected for their component.