Course Description

Instructor: Stacey Payne

Stacey worked at iMFLUX for five years, working on the education team, helping develop training materials, and doing workforce training both at iMFLUX and at customer manufacturing facilities. Prior to that, she served a year as an application engineer and three years as a process engineer. She traveled extensively in the U.S. and internationally to various manufacturing sites to help customers set up processes with a wide variety of materials and mold geometries. Stacey is a 2018 graduate of Penn State Behrend's Plastics Engineering Technology program. During her time at Behrend, she was a teaching assistant for some of the undergraduate injection molding labs, as well as for numerous industry workshops, in which she guided attendees through the setup of traditional molding processes using injection velocity-controlled fill.

Fee: $1,600

Offerings

May 29-31, 2024

Email Alicia Wagner at [email protected] to to register for that course section. 

Educational Goals

The Applied iMFLUX Processing workshop is designed to show how you can simplify your injection molding process with a low constant pressure process using iMFLUX technology. At the completion of this course, participants will be able to develop and troubleshoot an iMFLUX process. Participants will be given the knowledge necessary to set up an iMFLUX process from scratch, as well as the ability to convert a conventional molding process to one utilizing iMFLUX. Time will be split between the lab and classroom and working on a molding machine.

Topics to be covered include:

  • iMFLUX control functionality
  • iMFLUX process introduction and science
  • Controller function and navigation
  • Process set-up and main parameters
  • Sensor and process factor set-up
  • iMFLUX documentation and data interpretation
  • Control loop tuning and optimization
  • Troubleshooting techniques

Who Should Attend

Those who want to learn how to set-up and troubleshoot an iMFLUX process and learn how it differs from conventional molding. It is intended primarily for process technicians and engineers, but anyone wanting to learn the terminology and features of processing technology will benefit from attending this workshop.

Course Outline

Day 1

  • iMFLUX Introduction
  • iMFLUX Graph Interpretation
  • HMI Navigation
  • Melt Travel Definition and Set-up
  • Lab-Process Set-up

Day 2

  • Tuning (PIDs)
  • Lab-Process Set-up with Tuning
  • Profile Control (Step, Ramps, Gain, and VFF)
  • Direct and Indirect Sensor Calibration and/or PFA
  • Lab-Profile Control and PFA features

Day 3

  • Auto Viscosity Adjust and Startup Mode
  • Lab-Melt Travel and AVA
  • Hi-Lo and LECR Range Finding
  • Lab-Process Set-up and Hi-Lo Range Finding