RJG Releases Online Injection Molding Training Course

RJG has released a new online, interactive and self-paced Essentials of Injection Molding eLearning course as part of its RJG Training Academy. In a release announcing the new course, RJG noted that the online platform allows students to benefit from training without travel costs or the need to spend time away from work. The class includes interactive activities and problem-solving, while utilizing various learning styles.

RJG says injection molding newcomers, as well as those looking for a refresher, will come away from this course with a technical foundation from which they can build their knowledge and skills. In addition to an introduction to the four plastic variables and learning to think from the plastic’s point of view, the course includes an orientation to the phases involved in Decoupled Molding.

Objectives of Essentials of Injection Molding include: ability to identify machine and mold components and their primary functions; classifying properties and characteristics of thermoplastic materials; and examining the four plastic variables. From this portion, trainees will learn how these variables are influenced by primary machine settings during a Decoupled Molding  II process and their relationship to common defects. Finally, trainees will also learn to recognize common safety hazards, symbols, and functions of safety mechanisms and review the keys to profitable molding.

RJG says Essentials of Injection Molding eLearning can be bundled at a discounted rate with its other self-paced training offering introduced in late 2017: Math for Molders eLearning. The eLearning Essentials Bundle will be available at the same time as Essentials of Injection Molding. Essentials of Injection Molding will replace the in-person Injection Molding Essentials course and be available February 2022.

In a release, Margaret Weinzapfel, lead instructional designer at RJG, noted that in addition to dealing with a talent drought exasperated by the pandemic, RJG has been told by molders that it can be difficult to pull employees away from production for an entire shift to participate in traditional classroom-based or virtual instructor-led training. “With on-demand access to training that’s portioned out into digestible segments, RJG is more able to help molders immediately bridge the skills gap in an efficient and cost-effective way,” Weinzapfel said in the release.