Purpose
& Overview
This 1-day intensive seminar is designed to highlight
the principles of failure analysis, failure prevention,
and product-liability as they relate to plastic
parts. Understanding why plastic parts fail will
help you correct and prevent premature failures
and develop safe, successful, cost-effective products.
The seminar focuses on the main reasons behind
part failures and how to solve the most common
and troublesome problems facing the designers,
manufacturers, and end-users of plastic products.
Product-liability lawsuits can be devastating
to businesses. A major objective of this workshop
is to teach attendees how to take proactive approaches
to prevent such lawsuits by designing a well-documented
quality program.
Who
Should Attend?
This seminar is designed for plastics engineers,
managers, designers, processors, end-users, and
anyone who wishes to acquire knowledge concerning
the failure analysis plastic parts. Attendees
are encouraged to bring questions and samples
from their actual experience for discussion and
review.
Instructor:
Vishu Shah -
Biography
Seminar
Content
- Reasons behind failure
of plastic parts
- Material selection,
design, process, service condition
- Types of failures
and typical failure modes
- Mechanical, thermal,
chemical, environmental
- Analyzing failures
– Steps and Tools
- Preventing part failures
and product-liability issues
- Lecture will be supplemented
with case studies and identification analysis
demonstrations.
| Seminar
Fees |
Before
4/23/08 |
After
4/23/08 |
| SPE
Member |
$760 |
$860 |
| Nonmember
|
$1,010 |
$1,010 |
Price
Schedule
All
forms of registration must contain payment, either
by credit card or check, otherwise the registration
will not be processed. Checks should be made
payable to SPE Seminars in U.S. funds.
Use
a separate registration form for each attendee.
If
you do not receive a confirmation for the seminar
prior to attending, please e-mail seminars@4spe.org
or call SPE at +1 203-740-5403 to verify your
registration.
