Range of services
The Institute of Polymer Technology Darmstadt offers services in further education as well as in research and development. It works closely with the Gesellschaft zur Förderung des technischen Nachwuchses (GFTN), which is an affiliated institute at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. The GFTN acts as a provider on the market. The services are provided by the institute within framework agreements. This allows flexible offers to be created in line with the market. Similar agreements are also planned with other commercial providers, e.g. VDI-Wissensforum GmbH.
Two well-known further training seminars are the seminars for setters in the areas of "Setter seminars - injection molding" and "Film setter seminar".
The Darmstadt Plastics Day takes place every two years. Various speakers from the field of plastics technology present the current state of plastics processing.
The members of the ikd offer a variety of in-house courses for the industry via the GFTN.
The institute's facilities can be used directly by industry as part of smaller projects. The corresponding scope of services can be obtained via the GFTN. Within the GFTN, there are two working groups dedicated to specific areas of activity.
The institute uses various programs for research and teaching.
The CATIA program is primarily used for design. Fusion 360 is also available.
In the area of FEM, the design of molded parts and tools, for example, is carried out using the ANSYS program. The corresponding modules for structural analysis and flow simulation (e.g. Fluent, CFX and Polyflow) are used here and can be used with the Workbench and Classic interfaces.
For the design of injection molded parts and injection molds, ikd has the programs Cadmould®, Moldex3D and Moldflow®. Using interfaces such as Converse etc., it is possible to map their results to ANSYS as part of the integrative simulation (e.g. structural analysis).
Stretch blow molding processes and extrusion blow molding can be represented with the B-SIM program.
With the Witness program, dynamic process simulations of manufacturing and business processes can be generated and used to plan real processes.