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Level/category

Professional studies

Teaching language

Swedish

Type of course

Compulsory

Recommended year of study

3

Total number of ECTS

5 cr

Competency aims

To understand the planning of a product between a part with undercuts, tool design with cammed mould and manufacturing injection techniques. To exercise
different structure solutions and to document a work to a technical documentation whit a table of contents.

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student is expected to be able to design a mould with different partliness, with several undercuts and cammed molds.
- To bee able to use standardized constructions to fulfill complicated structure.

Course contents

- Materials to a product with different undercuts.
- Injection moulding processes.
- Use of standard components of cammed molds for part with undercuts cams moved in vertical direction when a mold is opened.
- To define the partlines of a product with undercuts.
- Hot and cold runner systems.
- Mould design guidelines of a cammed mould (runner design, part thickness, and drafts).
- Cammed mould standards and components.
- Ejector systems in a cammed mould system.
- Cooling systems of cammed moulds
- Use of mold flow software.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Solid Modelling, 3-D CAD course

Study activities

  • Lectures - 40 hours
  • Excursions and demonstrations - 13 hours
  • Laboratory lessons and tasks in a simulated environment - 40 hours
  • Individual studies - 40 hours

Workload

  • Total workload of the course: 133 hours
  • Of which autonomous studies: 40 hours
  • Of which scheduled studies: 93 hours

Mode of Delivery

Participation in tuition

Teacher

Nyroth Erland

Examiner

Skön Kim

Group size

No limit

Course completion date

Date for course completion will be announced later

Assignments valid until

12 months after course has ended

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