Pocket Injection Mold Engineering Standards, 2nd Edition, Paperback

This book includes many reference tables and graphics supplying valuable information for injection mold design and engineering. The book includes mold specification sheets and mold design/engineering for gates, cooling, sprues & runners, runner sizing, ejection, pullbacks & KOs, SPI KO patterns, clamp slots, venting, hydraulic cylinders, slides, alignment, O-rings, SHCSs, support plate & pillars, hot runner considerations, etc. Also included: mold design checklist, quoting & design direction, tips to best determine shrinkage values for X, Y & Z axis, mold steels and hardness, heat treatment and tempering data, thermal conductivity values, thermal expansion, plating, best surface treatments, surface finish tables, edm roughness table, updated list of common suppliers, and more. This new 2nd EDITION also includes selected additional reference pages from other APEBOOKS which are related to mold engineering.

About the Author:

The author - Jay Carender: - Hands on processing skills, - Mold build/mold design & engineering knowledge, - Degree in Mechanical Engineering from GMI (General Motors Institute of Technology ... now known as Kettering University), - DOE Training from Stat-Ease, Inc., - SPC Training from University of Tennessee Management Development Center, - SPC Training from ASQC, - Black Belt from AIT (Advanced Integrated Technologies), - Productivity and Quality Improvement Training by Dr. Deming, - Mold Design & Advanced Mold Design Training from New York University ... taught by John Klees Enterprises, - Multiple courses on processing from RJG Industries, Inc., - Owner of Advanced Process Engineering - company started in 1990 to create and market pocket sized reference booklets for injection molding industry. Six booklets written & published along with other training manuals. The hands on experience is from various fortune 500 companies performing injection molding. The extensive experience includes: - Hot runner molding, - High cavitation molds, - High speed molding with cycle times less than 5 seconds, - Stack molds, unscrewing molds, core pulls, slides, close tolerance parts, - Engineering resins, - SPC, - Statistics, - DOE to effect process improvement and dimensional nominalization.