The seminar on project planning for extrusion systems in the field of plastics processing is offered every year in the winter semester at Kunststofftechnik Paderborn. As part of this seminar, participants are given the task of designing a special extrusion line, taking into account technical and economic aspects. Students have one week to complete this task.
In the news winter semester, 8 students took part in a planning game in 2 groups under the guidance of Professor Volker Schöppner and research assistants Dennis Kleinschmidt and Felix Hanselle. The challenge was to master the project planning of a fictitious plant for the production of agricultural film for a monthly customer requirement. Various cost accounting, project planning and time management tools were applied in practice.
In addition, the students were given the opportunity to independently produce films with customised properties in laboratory tests at the plastics technology institution. These were then tested for their mechanical properties using a tensile test. By adapting the process parameters of the laboratory system with the help of a scale-up, an optimal configuration was developed for the preparation of the offer.
Finally, all groups were able to successfully fulfil the customer's required specifications and conclude the seminar. Special thanks go to the company LyondellBasell, whose donation of LDPE plastic granulate made this project seminar possible.
