Home of Tool Engineering!
Polymer School offers training in the following areas. After 38 years in the tool manufacturing and decades of teaching experience, we have assembled one of the best training modules in the industry. We are so confident in our training methodology and delivery method that we offer 100% money-back guarantee, no questions asked!
We can train at your facility or our partner facility in North Carolina, which is fully equipped with machines and lab equipment for practical training.
We customize every course according to your students’ needs. First, in plastics education, the case-study method is used in our training. All courses are in-person sessions at our partner facility in North Carolina, USA, or your location of choice. Our instructors have at least 25 years of experience in their respective fields and professional or institutional teaching experience.
No one offers a complete course under one roof for mechanical engineers, tradesmen, plastics engineers, or tool engineers like us!
We just don’t train; we make students to THINK & APPLY
Courses Offered:
| For Tradesmen, Machinists, Technicians, and Mechanical Engineers | For Tool Design Engineers |
| Print Reading for Machine Trades* | Jigs & Fixture Design |
| Drafting – Mechanical & Tooling* | Gage Design |
| AutoCAD for Mechanical & Tooling* | Press Tool (Design & Simulation) |
| Limits, Fits & Tolerances, Intro to GD&T* | 3D Tool Design Drawing – SolidWorks |
| GD&T – Fundamentals* | Tolerance Stack-up Analysis* |
| Math for Machinists & Welders | |
| *according to ASME Y14.5-2018 |
| For Tradesmen, Machinists, Technicians, and Manufacturing Engineers | Plastics & Mold Engineers |
| Metallurgy Fundamentals | Intro to Mold Design (Injection & Blow) |
| Welding Fundamentals | Extrusion Die Design |
| Manufacturing Process & Metalworking | Intro to Injection Mold Design & DFM |
| Machining Fundamentals | Packaging Mold Design (Closures, Preform & Thin Wall Containers) |
| Hydraulics & Pnuematics Fundamentals | Intro to Hotrunners |
| Industrial Robotics & Programming | Die-casting Process & Mold Design |
| Tool Manufacturing Process | Metal Injection Molding |
| Cutting Tools | Multi-Material Mold Design |
| Metrology & Inspection Methods | Co-injection Process & Molds |
| Plastics Engineering for Mechanical Engineers | |
| Statistics for Engineers |
| For Plastics Engineers & Technicians | For Moldmaker & Shop Floor (Hands-on) |
| Injection Molding Course (Basic, Intermediate, Advanced*) *advanced courses are hands-on. | Hotrunner Maintenance |
| Intro to Extrusion & Compounding (Lab) | Hi-cavitation Mold Maintenance (32 & higher) |
| Intro to Blow Molding | Preform Mold Maintenance (96, 128, 144) |
| Intro to Micro-Molding (Lab) | IM/BM Statistical Process Control and Process Optimization |
| Intro to Additive Manufacturing (Lab) | IM Troubleshooting & DOE |
| Intro to Rubber and LSR Molding | Advance Injection Molding and Methodical Molding (Lab) |
| Plastics Product Design & Material Selection | Process Optimization and Mold Qualification |
| Polymer Science Intro | |
| Plastics Material Selection and Material Testing (Lab) |
| Executive Education (Molders, Moldmakers, Plant Managers & GM’s) |
| Data Analysis & Risk Modeling |
| Decision Analysis with Regression |
| Finance for Small Business Owners & Engineers (Accounting Basics, Balance Sheet/P&L) |
| Valuation (Molders & Moldmakers) for M&A |
| Micro & Macro Economics for Business Owners & Engineers |
