If your company is a processor of plastic injection molded parts, ask yourself this question:
"How many of your process engineers and technicians have had any formal training in plastics processing and materials?"
If you find your answer is “few-to-none”, you must then ask yourself:
"How and when did they gain all the technical knowledge and skills necessary to perform all their duties properly?"
If the answer is, “from someone else on the floor”, this practice could be unwittingly perpetuating a host of problems and molding myths, all of it costing your company money.
Remember that some of the people that fall into this group will be responsible for creating set-up sheets that ultimately determine cycle times; some are responsible for setting-up the process each time the job is run, regardless of changing material composition or machine conditions. These same people are also expected to solve processing problems. Some may even be expected to evaluate prototype tooling and order changes for the production tooling.
Now ask this same question about your supervisors, schedulers, mold setters, and yes, even your operators. Can you really expect an employee to know more than they have been taught or shown?
The Bottom Line: If your personnel have not received the proper training, this could be costing your company in terms of: excessive scrap, molding cycle inefficiency, excessive machine downtime, equipment and tool damage, and personnel safety. All of it costing your company plenty.
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