20 Oct 26

28 hours

Online & PIEP, Guimarães

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3Edition

Thermoplastics and injection moulding processes

Date

Start

20 Oct 26

End

30 Oct 26

Target

Managers, middle, and senior executives of companies seeking to improve their knowledge in the field of injection moulding technologies.

General Objectives

To equip trainees with solid skills in polymers, their main properties, and injection moulding production techniques, relevant to understanding the characteristics of products after processing and under service conditions.

Specific Objectives

To know thermoplastic materials and understand their classification not only at the structural level, but also at the commercial level;
Recognizing the importance of pre-processing raw materials;
Understanding the influence of incorporating recycled raw materials in the production process;
Identify and characterize the phases of the injection moulding cycle;
To understand the structure of a thermoplastic injection moulding machine, identify its functional units, and recognize the auxiliary equipment used in the injection moulding process.
To understand the construction of a mould for the production of plastic parts and to identify its functional systems;
To distinguish the main operating parameters and variables and to understand their effect on the injection process and on the characteristics and performance of the components produced.

Program Content

Module 1

Thermoplastic materials for the injection moulding production process.

2 hours

Module 2

Injection moulding machine

4 hours

Module 3

Injection mould

4 hours

Module 4

5 hours

Module 5

1 hours

Module 6

4 hours

Module 7

4 hours

Module 8

4 hours

Date, time and duration of each session

Session 1

Module 1

20 Oct 26

09h00 - 11h00

Session 2

Module 2

21 Oct 26

09h00 - 13h00

Session 3

Module 3

22 Oct 26

09h00 - 13h00

Session 4

Module 4.1

27 Oct 26

09h00 - 12h00

Session 4

Module 4.2

28 Oct 26

09h00 - 11h00

Session 5

Module 5

28 Oct 26

11h00 - 12h00

Session 6

Module 6

29 Oct 26

09h00 - 13h00

Session 7

Module 7

30 Oct 26

09h00 - 13h00

Session 8

Module 8

30 Oct 26

14h00 - 18h00

Cost per Trainee

Non
Associated

700€

PIEP and/or APIP Associate
University Student

15% Discount

No. Trainees

Minimum

Maximum

Trainers

Júlio C. Viana

Associate Professor in the Department of Polymer Engineering at the University of Minho;
Deputy Director of the Institute of Polymers and Composites, IPC (www.ipc.uminho.pt), a research unit of the University of Minho, integrated into the Associated Laboratory LASI – Associated Laboratory in Intelligent Systems (www.lasi-research.pt);
Vice-president and member of the Executive Committee of the Collaborative Laboratory for Digital Transformation, DTx (www.dtx-colab.pt);
It develops R&D+i activities in multifunctional polymer systems, unconventional manufacturing technologies (based on injection moulding), and connected and intelligent products.

Sílvia Cruz

PhD in Polymer and Composite Science and Engineering, University of Minho
Master’s degree (pre-Bologna) in Materials Processing and Characterisation, University of Minho;
Bachelor’s degree in Polymer Engineering, University of Minho;
Conventional and non-conventional injection moulding, in-mould electronics (IME) and in-mould decoration (IMD), injection moulding process simulation, thermoforming, printed electronics (inkjet printing, screen printing, flexible and extensible electronics);
Certified trainer, IEFP (Certificate No. F631463/2015).

Cátia Araújo

Master’s degree in Polymer Engineering, University of Minho;
Conventional and non-conventional injection moulding and thermoforming;
Numerical simulation of conventional and non-conventional injection moulding processes (support for mould development and process definition);
Printing technologies: screen printing;
Formadora certificada, IEFP (Certificado n.º F742920/2023).