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Pre-ANTEC® Workshop

Pre-ANTEC® Workshop —

Conducting a Plastic Failure Analysis

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On Monday, March 27, Jeffrey Jansen, Engineering Manager, The Madison Group, presented a three-hour Pre-ANTEC® Workshop. Jansen's workshop, Conducting a Plastic Failure Analysis,  highlighted the importance of a thorough understanding of how and why a product has failed.

Workshop took take place on March 27 from 2:00-5:00 pm MDT.

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Workshop Overview

The most efficient and effective approach to plastic component failure isperforming a systematic failure analysis following scientific method. Someone once said, “If you don't know how something broke, you can't fix it,” highlighting the importance of a thoroughunderstanding of how and why a product has failed.

  • Possible Outline Plastic Properties: chemicalthermal, mechanical
  • Recognizing Failure Plastic Failure Mechanisms: impact, creep, ESC, fatigue,degradation
  • Conducting a Failure Analysis Failure Analysis Testing: fractography and analytical

This course would be "case study" and "example" driven.

Target Audience

Target audience are those responsible for the design and quality of molded plastic components and equipment using plastic parts. This includes automotive, medical, appliance, aerospace, electronics industries. Typical titles would be plasti cengineers, engineering managers, quality engineers, reliability engineers, design engineers.

About the Instructor

Jeffrey A. Jansen
Engineering Manager
The Madison Group
The Madison Group performs hundreds of failure investigations every year. Jeff Jansen has personally conducted over 5,000 in his career. This is a core competency of The Madison Group and himself. They teach a 3-course in failure analysis and prevention through the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, and Jeff also gives personalized training for individual clients.

Questions about this Pre-ANTEC® Workshop?

For general questions and Pre-ANTEC® Workshop registration, contact customerrelations@4spe.org.

For questions about the Pre-ANTEC® Workshop instructor and topic, contact Iván López at ilopez@4spe.org.

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Questions about ANTEC® 2023?

For general questions and registration, contact customerrelations@4spe.org.

For questions about speakers and the program, contact Iván López at ilopez@4spe.org.


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