COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops. 

 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and advanced knowledge on extruder operations. It covers the extrusion processes, extruder design and configuration and polymer rheology in extrusion; the screw design and optimization, heating and cooling systems and key extrusion process variables; the process monitoring and instrumentation and the advanced control strategies, start-up and shut-down procedures, product quality parameters and data collection and statistical process control (SPC); the raw material handling and feeding systems, polymer degradation and stabilization, blending, additives and masterbatch integration and recycling and regrind processing. 

 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the troubleshooting material issues and polymer-specific processing techniques, process troubleshooting techniques and the common defects in extruded products; the screw and barrel wear troubleshooting, die design and flow balancing issues, downtime reduction and changeover optimization and productivity and throughput optimization; the preventive and predictive maintenance, extruder alignment and mechanical inspection, quality assurance in extrusion, energy efficiency in extrusion lines and continuous improvement tools (lean/six sigma).