This month’s topic, in our SimTech™ series of webinars, reviews the causes and solutions to that pesky part defect known as Flash. Flash occurs when the plastic flows beyond the mold’s parting line or between metal inserts. Flash can be on the parts or on the runner and can be in large areas or small. Molders should avoid flash in the mold. Even if the flash can be trimmed, flash damages the parting line of the mold. So how do you avoid this problem? In this webinar, our expert instructor will walk you through various scenarios, utilizing Paulson’s powerful injection molding machine simulator SimTech. You’ll get an inside look into the process from the “plastic’s point of view” as the foundation to all molding strategies. This means, understanding the concept that all machine controls affect one or more of the four plastic processing variables. Paulson’s entire approach, from starting up a machine for a production run, to problem solving an existing run is to examine the situation from the plastics point of view.
Key Take Aways Include:
- Overview of plastic material properties
Understanding how the different machine controls affect the four plastic variables
The How, Why, and Solution of Flash Defects with a simulated demo using SimTech
How to use plastic behavior to your advantage when optimizing the molding
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Take part in this FREE webinar to learn and apply molding techniques that will dramatically change the way you process.
BONUS!
Special Guest: Donald C. Paulson
Newly inducted into the 2021 Plastics Hall of Fame, (read more here), Donald Paulson is the founder and chairman of Paulson Training Programs, Inc. and the creator of the now widely accepted method of teaching plastic processing from the “Plastics Point of View”. Don will join this webinar and give his personal account of his years of research with the General Motors Institute that lead to transforming injection molding from an art to a science. An experience you won’t want to miss.
