Archive for the ‘Extrusion’ Category

Taming Extruder Temperature Control

Posted in Extrusion, Process Optimization, Specialty Chemicals, Variability Management on Tuesday, July 1st, 2008. 2 comments so far

I caught up with Emerson’s Mark Coughran, a senior process variability consultant whom you may recall from earlier process tuning and optimization posts. Mark shared a story of a plastics manufacturer that was challenged to bring a new product to market with a new extruder. This manufacturer needed to run trials with varying polymer formulations [...]