Plastic Part Development

Job role

Leader – New Product Development - Plastics

Department

Manufacturing Engg

Function (if applicable)

NPD – Plastics - Development of new projects

Location

Pune

Key Performance Indicators

1. Development of plastic injection parts – Right first time and on time
2. Development of molds, mold try out and Part submission up to PPAP
3. Product development - project completion as per customer agreed targets of Quality, cost, and lead time. Achieving Right First Time.

List of Critical Tasks (Without which the KPI cannot be achieved),

Knowledge and Skill (Mapped to each critical task)

Critical Tasks

Knowledge

Skill

Feasibility review of parts

• Injection, molded part design review
• Various plastic raw materials and their processing requirements
• Conceptualize tool design (2 plate mold, 3 plate molds, HRS systems, various gating considerations, insert molding, sliders, cams, 2 stage ejector systems)
• Injection molding Process understanding (part wall thickness, drafts etc.)
• Use of process understanding to develop parts of expected quality with min cost & min time to develop the part

Stagewise process design for injection molding process

• Process flow for injection molded parts
• Process flow diagram (PFD)
• Use of process understanding for process design

Prepare Quality plan for product development

• Understanding flow simulation reports and its use for concept design
• PFMEA

• Use product and process knowledge to build P FMEA for mold and molding process

Approval of injection mold design (back up calculations to meet the part dimensions, mold construction, molding machine selection)

• Types of molds, mold construction
• Tonnage calculation; molding machine selection
• Cycle time estimation
• Raw material processing conditions & limitations
• Mold design Checklist
• Use of knowledge to make molds to produce expected quality parts

Experience

(No. of years & required field experience)

• 12-18 years’ experience in similar industry & function

Age

• 33 - 40 years

Qualification

• BE Mechanical, PG Tooling – Premium Institute

Professional Courses (preferred)

• Tool design & manufacturing, NTTF, GTDC