COURSE OUTLINE
Course Title: Rigid Plastic Packaging: Materials, Process & Lab Testing
Duration: 2 Days (6 hours per day)
Total Hours: 12 Hours
Day 1: Fundamentals & Manufacturing Process for Rigid Packaging
Session 1: Rigid Packaging
- Commonly used rigid packaging
- Benefits & limitations of rigid packaging
- Primary, Secondary & Tertiary packaging
- Work flow chart
- Flexible Vs Rigid packaging
Session 2: Production Equipment & Process of Rigid Packaging
- Injection Molding m/c
- Injection Stretch Blow Molding m/c
- Injection Blow m/c
- Extrusion Blow m/c
- Compression Molding m/c
- Extrusion m/c
- Thermo-forming m/c
- Vacuum forming m/c
- Rotational molding m/c
- Downstream & Ancillary of all types rigid packaging m/c
Session 3: Mould & Tooling Basics
- Key component of a mould
- Material for mould manufacturing
- Post-Moulding Operations and Decoration in Rigid Packaging
Session 4: Raw-material selection of Rigid Packaging
- Resins & Other Materials Used in Rigid Packaging Production
- Material selection criteria
- Plastic Resin comparison
- Simple Identification
Day 2: QC-QA and The Principle
Session 5: Key Concept
- Role of QC & QA
- SOP Making
- In-line and Off-line QC process
- Raw material testing
Session 6: Performance Test
- Test the performance of a product.
- Standards and Quality Systems
- Recording and Analysing Test Data
- Various defects and Trouble shooting
Session 7: Gap Analysis and Solution Making
- Find out the problems by gap analysis and making their solution.
- How to perform a root cause analysis (RCA)?
- 6M in daily work life
- 5W in daily work life
Session 8: Customer Complain Handling and Regulatory Requirements
- Behavior with customer according to packaging defect categories.
- Complain management process.
- PMS making in coordination with customer, supply chain and quality-production people.
Session 9: Sustainability, Recent Trends and Innovation in Rigid Packaging
- Recycled & Boi-based Plastic.
- Light Weighting & Energy Efficient
- Reuse and Refill Packaging Models
- Advancements in PET recycling and PCR (Post-Consumer Re-cycle)
Q&A Session with Group Work
Special Guest Speech
Certification Ceremony