Project seminar "Designing with Plastics 2019

In the project seminar "Designing with Plastics", which is offered annually at the KTP, the participating students have the opportunity to deal with a comprehensive task for the design and conception of a plastic component in groups. In addition to the planning, design and business analysis of the customer's order, the participants also have the opportunity to set up a corresponding injection moulding machine in the KTP's laboratory and design it to meet the required considerations. The scope of the seminar is five working days (Monday to Friday) and corresponds to two ECTS. This year, in the week of 20-24 May 19, ten students from the Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering degree programmes got together in two working groups and took on the challenge of the project task. For their intended company, they planned the purchase of an injection moulding machine to supply a customer from the automotive industry with a filing system consisting of plastic boxes for vans. In the process, methods of cost accounting, planning and time management were applied in practice. Furthermore, the students were given the opportunity to independently produce small plastic boxes in laboratory tests on an injection moulding machine at the KTP and to optimise them in the ongoing process with regard to component quality. This preliminary work enabled the project to be planned further and a corresponding offer to be prepared for the customer. Finally, the results were presented in a short presentation before the project seminar ended with the traditional barbecue and cold drinks at the KTP.