Services
Plastics SourceNet offers a wide variety of partnership services to individuals and manufacturers. The goals are to optimize your manufacturing processes, decrease time to market, reduce costs, increase productivity, enhance product development and innovation, provide training to upgrade workforce skills and efficiencies, and recruit qualified personnel.
For manufacturing issues/concerns, the Plastics SourceNet Coordinator will travel to the plant location to analyze process needs and necessary services. In addition, Plastics SourceNet also provides a maximum of two preliminary days of free consulting services.
Cost for services beyond the initial evaluation is based upon needs and is presented in a proposal developed by Plastics SourceNet and those partnering to help any particular project.
Through the the technology partnership between the Plastics Manufacturing Center (PMC) at the Pennsylvania College of Technology and the Plastics Technology Center (PTC), at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, Plastics SourceNet can provide one or more of the following services:
MANUFACTURING FEASIBILITY STUDY
This study will determine how possible an idea is to implement and what will be the bottom line of production costs, return on investment, and market demand.
PRODUCT DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, AND ENHANCEMENT
- Product design
- 3D solid modeling SolidWorks®
- Rapid prototyping: SLA, SLS, LOM
- Design for manufacturability and assembly
- Metal/glass conversion to plastic
- Structural and Finite element analysis: ANSYS®, COSMOS®
PLASTICS MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING
- Polymer materials development and properties enhancement: physical properties, weather ability, temperature resistance, long-term performance
- Composite plastics compounding: reinforcements, filler, additives, nano-composites
- Materials characterization
- Material selection and application engineering
- Testing and analysis
- Rapid tooling: aluminum, urethane casting, spray metal, epoxy, SLA, SLS, FDM machining
- Mold and tool design
- Tooling development management
- Initial process development/new tool sampling
- First article molding
- Process and tool troubleshooting
PROCESS DEVELOPMENT AND OPTIMIZATION
- Prototype and pre-production runs
- Extrusion process and pelletizing technology
- Equipment specification
- Extrusion screw design, development, and construction
- Process simulation and analysis: MoldFlow®, PolyFlow®
- Process optimization: design experiments, SPC, RJG
- Process controls: data acquisition/integration, RJG
- Finite element analysis
TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS (ON AND OFF SITE)
- Fundamental and advanced extrusion
- Plastic product design
- Blow molding: single and double stage/extrusion and injection blow
- Injection molding and troubleshooting
- Rotational molding process fundamentals
- Plastics mold design
- Plastics materials and processing fundamentals
Plastics SourceNet
Pennsylvania College of Technology, One College Ave., Williamsport, PA 17701
Phone: 1-877-PENPLAS (1-877-736-7527) | Fax: 570.320.5248
E-mail: psn@pct.edu
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