Around 20 million tons - that's how much plastic companies in Germany alone produce every year. And the trend is rising. Plastic parts are used in many different industries, from the packaging industry to medical technology, and it's hard to imagine life without them. If you work with plastics as a design engineer, technical buyer, Production Technology specialist, toolmaker or in testing - meet your colleagues, suppliers and business partners at eye level in technical discussions. The continuing education course "What you should know about plastic parts" provides you with the basic knowledge you need about materials, their processing and the corresponding design principles.

Learn what is important for plastic parts using a variety of component examples. Since costs, production methods, machines, quality, tools and the material itself interact strongly, basic knowledge is taught compactly for each of these areas. Even if you buy in plastic parts, you need know-how for the specification in the company in order to keep costs and quality under control.

Upon successful completion of the continuing education program, you will be able to:

• Apply the correct approach to plastic part design.
• Master the foundation courses of plastics material selection.
• Make good use of virtual manufacturing during the design phase.
• Understand design principles and structure of injection mold design.
• To take into account the framework conditions of injection mold design during the design of
• components in a meaningful way.
• To set dimensional tolerances for plastic parts in a meaningful way.

Designers of plastic parts from all industries, project managers of projects in which plastic parts and their tools play an important role, technical buyers of plastic parts and tools

The continuing education, which is held in an interactive seminar format, offers the opportunity to address individual questions and problems of the participants. Through practical work in the laboratory with component and tool examples, what is learned is immediately linked to practical knowledge, which promotes a sustainable learning process and facilitates the transfer to one's own professional practice.

The curriculum and further information can be found in the flyer and in the download area.

• Dates: 6 attendance days
• This continuing education programme is only offered in-house.
  We would be pleased to prepare an individual offer for you! On request at weiterbildung@hsnr.de
• Location: at your site

• Participation requirements: Completed studies in science or engineering with at least one year of professional experience or other professional degree with at least three years of professional experience. Basic knowledge of plastics is imparted in the first session; in the case of little previous knowledge, a higher personal contribution is required here.
• Scope (workload): 125 h, of which 45 h attendance, 5 ECTS.
• Degree: University certificate / certificate of attendance

Three questions for your lecturer, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Heber:

Why is continuingeducation in the design of plastic parts currently of interest to many professionals?
The use of plastics has increased extremely rapidly in recent decades. The level of knowledge of the employees in the companies could not always keep up with this rapid growth. There is therefore a corresponding need to provide employees with additional qualifications in these areas.

What are you particularly looking forward to in this continuing education programme?
I'm looking forward to the interesting questions and practical tasks that the participants will bring with them and that will also give me valuable input for my teaching education and research activities.

And what can the participants look forward to?
In addition to the practical experiments we conduct, participants can look forward to a lecturer who enjoys imparting applicable knowledge, has many years of experience in industry and is happy to share his own interest in this field with others.