Manufacturing Week Long Comprehensive

Manufacturing Week Long Comprehensive

.: a Symposium for Product Designers and Mechanical Engineers :.

Course Duration: 40 hour workshop

Tuition: $2500 USD

Overview: The course includes each of design engine’s plastics class, die cast class and forging class into this forty hour one week intensive. Refer to those specific web pages for precise course material. This class is not for Pro/ENGINEER beginners. Training material for this one week design intensive has been designed to provide a working knowledge of both the molding and forming industry and includes more than half of the hours utilizing modeling techniques in Pro/ENGINEER. This class does not cover the actual writing of CNC code for numeric controls or Sheet metal as those are separate design engine classes.

Take ten minutes to review this course overview.

Prerequisites: Significant knowledge of Pro/ENGINEER or another parametric 3-dimensional CAD modeler.

I. Die Cast Part Design

Die Casting Short List of Topics:

  • The process, die cast molds, tooling, processing factors, Nominal Walls, – Radii and draft angles, Ribs, Weldlines, stress, cooling metals, bosses, undercuts.
  • Also snap fit, FEA, Design recommendations, overview of flow mold analysis software.

Short List of Die Cast Discussions:

  • Discuss cooling time as related to thick sections of aluminum. Discuss internal voids and fundamentals of other problems that occur from improper piece part design.
  • Discuss using parametric modelers in general and discuss examples where using variables with a parametric modeler can save problems in the future complete with in class examples.

Pro/ENGINEER specific:

  • Discuss draft in it’s many forms complete with examples of split draft etc.
  • Learn to use surfacing and discuss it’s usefulness with die cast part design.
  • Learn to use top down design with examples in Pro/ENGINEER.
  • Adding draft to parts that currently have no draft.

There is a great deal of HTML course material students take back with them from this workshop.

For complete list of the Die Cast Part Design course material, see the Sesign Engine die cast class page.


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II. Plastic Part Design

Plastic Part Design Short List of Topics:

  • Product Development & Prototype
  • Mold Filling, Gating & Weld Lines
  • Mechanical Behavior of Polymers
  • Shrinkage, Warpage & Part Ejection

Plastics Discussions:

  • Discuss basic design elements in plastic part design. Holes, ribs, thin wall features, bosses, nominal wall, and fill.
  • Discuss general rules for hollow boss design and discuss best practices. Learn about thin steel or thin blade areas and discuss ways to avoid.
  • Designing undercuts and discuss advantages and disadvantages as relative to costs
  • General disclaimers on drawings such as “brake all sharp corners”. In this exercise participants will add draft and prepare any number of parts for the plastic injection molding process.

Pro/ENGINEER specific:

  • Light surfacing and its use with plastic part design.
  • Discuss top down design with examples.
  • Adding draft to parts that currently have no draft.
  • Discuss making parts moldable that others created.
  • Tips tricks and techniques for starting and completing plastic parts using Pro/ENGINEER.

For complete list of the Plastic Part Design course material, see the Sesign Engine plastics class page.


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III. Forging Part Design

Forging Part Design Short List of Topics:

  • Overview of the forging process complete with tooling, and outside machining operations.
  • Forging is process by which metal is heated and is shaped by plastic deformation by suitably applying compressive force.
  • Discuss the progression of a forging process.
  • Open Die Drop hammer forging.

Forging Discussions:

  • Discuss alloys with respect forging.
  • Compare cold forging to hot forging & warm forging.
  • In detail steps of the forging process
  • Discuss strengths and weakness of outsourcing.

Forging Short List of Tutorials: (watch instructor perform in real time these models before participants create the models)

  • Motorcycle Brake Lever
  • Pivot Bracket
  • Harley Rod
  • Motorcycle Kickstand

For complete list of the Forging Part Design course material, see the Design Engine forging class page.


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