ProMolder 3

ProMolder^TM 3 is Paulson’s highest possible certification level seminar and will teach you the “why” behind injection molding. This 5-day seminar covers 20+ hours of machine and simulator time offering you the most thorough and technically accurate training available in the industry. You will gain advanced problem solving skills, practical hands-on experience in machine settings and intensive training in scientific molding. The skills you acquire will allow you to confidently make production floor decisions that decrease downtime and increase productivity.

Seminar Attendance Pre-Requisites
Attendees should have successfully completed ProMolder^TM 1 & 2 courses or have passed the pre-assessment test administered by Paulson.

Profitable Molding for Managers

3-days

Profitable Molding for Managers As a manager of a molding plant you are probably swamped daily with a myriad of issues, many of the “immediate” variety. These daily “fires” can obscure the important metrics by which your company’s success is measured. In order to achieve company financial goals, management must track and measure and quantify the right numbers. Spend an eye-opening two days with the experts at Paulson. We’ll show you how to change your perspective to focus on those items that really matter.

Who should attend?
This three-day course is intended for mid-level managers such as Molding Managers, Production Managers, Supervisors, and anyone else with production and quality responsibilities.

What you will learn.
The primary focus of this course is on identifying, monitoring and controlling the cost drivers of an injection molding plant. Cost drivers are those items that dictate how much profit you make.

The main topics covered during this 3-day seminar include:

• What cost drivers should I be monitoring?
• Effective throughput
  • What does it mean?
  • How is it monitored?
  • What reports have the most meaning to the company’s success?
  • Production data collection tools
• Material conservation
• Labor content
• Material content
• Machine and mold maintenance
• Quoting plastic parts
• Comprehensive quoting worksheet (provided to participants)
  • Instruction
• Daily report summary
  • Worksheet for daily earnings estimates (provided to participants)
• Earnings estimator
  • "what if" scenarios worksheet used for estimating earnings on a job by job basis (provided to participants)
• Basic understanding of the injection molding process
  • A basic understanding of the process as a whole to better relate to your technicians
• Team building/leadership skills
• Basic Lean Manufacturing for a “Job Shop Environment”
• Key performance indicators (KPIs)
  • What to measure
  • How to measure
  • How to determine when action should be taken
• The hidden cost drivers
  • Perceptual blindness – things we miss due to saturation
  • Common misconceptions
• Critical decision making
• R&D
  • Reduce scrap, cycle time and costs
  • Data driven decisions

ProEx 1

There is something in this seminar for every level of experience.  Whether you are an extrusion operator or an extrusion engineer, novice or seasoned veteran, you will gain practical application and understanding with the principles taught in this seminar. 

Course Summary:  ProEx 1 is an ideal class for anyone who wishes to understand the fundamental principles of extrusion or wants a scientific background on the extrusion process.  There are no pre-requisites for this class and it will cover the following topics with a written test at the end for certification.  Grades above 85% will earn a Gold Certificate of Achievement; 75% - 85% a Silver Certificate of Achievement; 70% -74% a Certificate of Achievement; all others a Certificate of Completion.

ProEx Blow Molding

ProEx 1 Blow Molding is for anyone who needs to understand blow molding technology. The course teaches the fundamentals of extrusion blow molding, including all of the knowledge that personnel must understand in order to make informed decisions on the production floor, and delivers advanced concepts using a scientific blow molding methodology. ProEx Blow Molding offers Certification on Day 3. Three levels of Certification are awarded based on final scores – Gold level, Silver level and a Certificate of Achievement. Paulson Certification is the recognized standard in the plastics industry.

The main topics covered during this intensive 3-day seminar include:

• The Blow Molding Process and Equipment
• Plastic Behavior
• Extrusion Blow Molding Operating Controls
• Operating Procedures – Start-Up, Operation & Shutdown
• Part Quality and Problem Solving
• Parison Programming

Each day there is time set aside for team discussion, problem solving, and one-on-one with the instructor.