
Learn essential manufacturing processes for designers, including sheet metal, injection molding, compression molding, vacuum forming, and 3D printing. Develop hands-on prototyping skills and collaborate effectively with engineering and production teams.
Learn why designers must grasp manufacturing processes, from injection molding to sheet metal, welding, bending, and forming, to communicate with engineers and produce manufacturable prototypes.
Learn how injection molding molds plastic parts by melting granules in a screw-driven, heated barrel, injecting molten material into a fixed and moving mold, and ejecting the finished part.
Master rubber compression molding by heating a preform and pressing it between upper and lower dies to form parts like o-rings, bellows, and rubber couplings, without liquid flow.
Discover sheet metal fabrication through bending, forming, stamping, and shearing, with focus on ductility, thickness, tooling, turret pressing, and welding to create precise metal parts.
Vacuum forming is a low-cost prototyping method using a heated plastic sheet and negative pressure to form parts over a mold, with clamps and trimming governed by material properties.
Explore how 3d printing, as additive manufacturing, enables designers to prototype plastics and metals, with tissue printing potential, layered builds, and finishing options.
Explore cnc machining and how computerised numerical control enables precise material removal using high carbon steels and hard tools, tool and part movement and setup such as clamping and cooling.
Explore manufacturing processes including job shop, repetitive, discrete, batch, continuous, and 3D printing, and see how raw materials become products through injection molding, sheet metal forming, and vacuum forming.
About the Master Class:
This course teaches students about various manufacturing processes which are used in the industry for making production and prototyping techniques. Particularly in-depth knowledge is given for injection moulding, compression moulding, sheet metal fabrication, vacuum forming, 3-D printing has been discussed in detail. Showing the real-time pictures and machineries and animations so that students can get a very good understanding which is part of how the machines enable to operate different products and prototypes to cater the needs. Also explains about how different materials could be used for different manufacturing processes based on production quantity you want or maybe for a prototyping purpose and some of the best fast prototyping methods has been taught to the students in this course.
Benefits of the Master Class:
Students will learn about the various manufacturing processes which are used in the industry for making production and prototyping techniques. Particularly in-depth knowledge is given for injection moulding, compression moulding, sheet metal fabrication, vacuum forming, 3-D printing has been discussed in detail
Each and every manufacturing process and techniques has been explained with a good amount of animations and pictures for clear understanding.
In-depth knowledge of injection moulding which includes gait, runner, parting half, draft angle, tools and moles, how the ejected pins are actuated in injection moulding process has been explained with clear animation videos for better understanding for students.
Process explanation of sheet metal punching bending and forming has been shown with animations and simple explanations given.
Explanation about how 3-D printing methods can be used for quick prototyping and selective laser centring, additive, subtractive manufacturing methods has been shown with video explanations
Explanation about the vacuum farming method showing the diet tool then the whole system for students to understand how quickly prototypes can be made with less cost and less time for low tooling cost.
This course is taken with the perspective that students should learn about each and every manufacturing process when they're making prototypes into production. This will improve their vital transaction with the engineering team and production team to get their parts into real-time production fastly.