Injection Molding Troubleshooting Guide, 3rd ED.

The IM Troubleshooting Guide was originally prepared in 1996 as a 48 page convenient pocket sized resource for use in Injection Molding. This information is most useful by personnel who work in the injection molding field including press operators, technicians, engineers, etc. This 3rd ED is at 104 pages and includes selected extra pages from other APEBOOKS that are helpful in process set up and troubleshooting.This book includes many useful definitions and tips for troubleshooting molding problems -- both process and tooling related. The book was written based on many years of process engineering. The solutions for correcting process problems are listed in the best order to solve the problem based on factors such as ease & timeliness to perform versus cost to implement and always considering effectiveness to solve problem. It is also useful to identify a common set of definitions for each department to use when discussing these common molding defects. Tips are often provided as to which defects may be process correctable versus those requiring product or mold changes.An introduction to DOE and dimensional nominalization is made, but discussed in greater detail in some of the other booklets written by this author for injection molding ... these are listed later in this book ... a total of six books have been written for injection molding.

The author - Jay Carender: • Hands on processing skills, • Mold build/mold design & engineering knowledge, • Degree in Mechanical Engineering from GMI (General Motors Institute of Technology ... now known as Kettering University), • DOE Training from Stat-Ease, Inc., • SPC Training from University of Tennessee Management Development Center, • SPC Training from ASQC, • Black Belt from AIT (Advanced Integrated Technologies), • Productivity and Quality Improvement Training by Dr. Deming, • Mold Design & Advanced Mold Design Training from New York University ... taught by John Klees Enterprises, • Multiple courses on processing from RJG Industries, Inc., • Owner of Advanced Process Engineering - company started in 1990 to create and market pocket sized reference booklets for injection molding industry. Six booklets written & published along with other training manuals. The hands on experience is from various fortune 500 companies performing injection molding. The extensive experience includes: • Hot runner molding, • High cavitation molds, • High speed molding with cycle times less than 5 seconds, • Stack molds, unscrewing molds, core pulls, slides, close tolerance parts, • Engineering resins, • SPC, • Statistics, • DOE to effect process improvement and dimensional nominalization.