AIM Institute Training Courses

The Plastics Technology and Engineering (PTE) Certificate Program was developed to bridge the knowledge gap between university education and professional experience. It is the most comprehensive plastics education available outside of a university setting.

This course is for molders who are responsible for starting up and troubleshooting a mold using a documented process, and for non-molders who are looking for a hands-on injection molding experience.

Molding 2 is a 10-day* injection molding training course for experienced processors. This course includes online reviews. *Two 5-day weeks, separated by 6-8 weeks of online reviews.

This injection molding education is unlike anything else in our industry. The goal of Molding 3 is to give employees a robust toolbox of plastics knowledge, problem solving techniques, critical thinking skills, and advanced processing methods so that when they do encounter a problem they are able to troubleshoot it effectively and creatively.

A combination of classroom instruction and hands-on training makes this course an integral part of many companies’ core orientation practices.

Attendees will learn how various hot runner systems function and the critical areas of each.

This course is ideal for experienced Molding Managers, Tooling Engineers and mold maintenance personnel who desire more in-depth training in managing a busy mold repair shop.

Technicians learn to repair tooling quickly and accurately versus replacing it or sending it out, saving you thousands of dollars.

This Texturing course is a hands-on program entirely focused on the mold texturing industry.

Mold Component Welding, Polishing & Repair Summary: Technicians learn to repair tooling quickly and accurately versus replacing it or sending it out, saving you thousands of dollars. Mold Texture Repair Summary: This Texturing course is a hands-on program entirely focused on the mold texturing industry.

This course is ideal for experienced Molding Managers, Tooling Engineers and mold maintenance personnel who desire more in-depth training in managing a busy mold repair shop.

Take our Injection Molding and Part Design Development Courses back-to-back and save 5%!

Our Online Injection Molding Development Course is designed to help attendees gain an in-depth understanding of injection molding machines and common practices used to establish and troubleshoot a molding process. We will discuss our unique, research-backed approach to injection molding process development and how to troubleshoot variations utilizing our proprietary Flow Grouping methodologies.

AIM’s Mold Design Development Course will help attendees gain a working knowledge of mold design and manufacturing. We break a mold down into its five systems and provide discussions on design strategies for each. Our hands-on labs set this course apart from others in the industry!

AIM’s Part Design Development Course is structured to improve your ability to design for manufacturability and for performance over your product’s lifespan.

Do you want a better understanding of plastic materials, their properties, and their relationship to the mold design, injection molding process, and the finished part?

Plastic Materials and Mold Design Combo combines two of our in-person Development Courses. These courses run back-to-back over the course of four days, giving students the opportunity to save time and money.

Our course may be titled “Plastics 101” but the information included goes beyond plastics basics to provide course attendees with a solid foundation of the plastic injection molding industry.

Do you want a better understanding of plastic materials, their properties, and their relationship to the mold design, injection molding process, and the finished part?

AIM’s Mold Design Development Course will help attendees gain a working knowledge of mold design and manufacturing. We break a mold down into its five systems and provide discussions on design strategies for each. Our hands-on labs set this course apart from others in the industry!

Our Injection Molding Development Course is designed to help attendees gain an in-depth understanding of injection molding machines and common practices used to establish and troubleshoot a molding process. We will discuss our unique, research-backed approach to injection molding process development and how to troubleshoot variations utilizing our proprietary Flow Grouping methodologies.

AIM’s Part Design Development Course is structured to improve your ability to design for manufacturability and for performance over your product’s lifespan.

Renowned plastics expert “The Material Analyst” Mike Sepe is teaming up with AIM to teach a special course on Plastic Part Failure Analysis. Participants will learn the relationship between the five factors that determine whether a plastic product is successful or a failure. This live, interactive course emphasizes prevention of failures with real-world examples and studies.

Renowned plastics expert “The Material Analyst” Mike Sepe will be teaching a special course on Plastic Material Selection and Testing.

In this course, students learn features, functionalities and workflows in Autodesk Moldflow Insight through hands-on exercises.

We teach students how to interpret what those “pretty pictures” mean so that they can comprehend and question what their analyst is telling them by coupling the course with an overview of plastics and plastic flow as related to the injection molding process.

Students will use Adviser learn how to become more efficient at creating digital prototypes, running analysis and interpreting results of all analysis types available in the Adviser package.

In this course, students learn about the more complex analysis types available in Autodesk Moldflow Insight that were not covered in the Autodesk Moldflow Insight Fundamentals course

Autodesk Moldflow Advanced Cool and Warp covers cooling overview, including cooling modeling requirements, cooling strategies and cooling optimization.

Take both Moldflow 101 and Moldflow Fundamentals back to back.

Take both Moldflow 101 + Fundamentals Combo back to back

Take both Advanced Flow and Advanced Cool & Warp back to back.

We teach students how to interpret what those “pretty pictures” mean so that they can comprehend and question what their analyst is telling them by coupling the course with an overview of plastics and plastic flow as related to the injection molding process.

Take both Advanced Flow and Advanced Cool & Warp back to back.

Students will use Adviser learn how to become more efficient at creating digital prototypes, running analysis and interpreting results of all analysis types available in the Adviser package.

In this course, students learn features, functionalities and workflows in Autodesk Moldflow Insight through hands-on exercises.

Autodesk Moldflow Advanced Cool and Warp covers cooling overview, including cooling modeling requirements, cooling strategies and cooling optimization.

In this course, students learn about the more complex analysis types available in Autodesk Moldflow Insight that were not covered in the Autodesk Moldflow Insight Fundamentals course

The Mold Design module gives students an overview of injection molds, including mold terminology and design considerations.

Each module is four hours and runs from 1pm-5pm (EST) daily in English. The Plastic Materials module is designed to give students an overview of various plastic material characteristics.

The Injection Molding module is designed to give students an overview of the injection molding process.

The Part Design module is designed to give students an overview of strategies and challenges facing plastic part design.

The Simulation Analysis module of our Plastics Bootcamp is designed to give students a basic understanding of simulation and how it is used in the injection molding industry.

The Injection Molding+ Bootcamp module will teach an innovative way to effectively troubleshoot mold filling and part quality variations utilizing Flow Grouping diagnostic methodologies. This module can be taken by itself, but is best when coupled with the Injection Molding Bootcamp course.

The Mold Design+ Bootcamp module is based on the best-selling Runner & Gating Design Handbook by AIM’s founder John P. Beaumont. This module focuses on Runner and Gating Strategies for plastic injection molding. Students can take this module by itself, but is best when coupled with the Mold Design Bootcamp course.

The Plastics Bootcamp provides course attendees with the introductory, core information they need to understand the basics of each primary discipline of the plastic injection molding industry and what it takes to make a plastic part.

The Plastics Bootcamp provides course attendees with the introductory, core information they need to understand the basics of each primary discipline of the plastic injection molding industry and what it takes to make a plastic part.

In this course, students learn about the more complex analysis types available in Autodesk Moldflow Insight that were not covered in the Autodesk Moldflow Insight Fundamentals course

Autodesk Moldflow Advanced Cool and Warp covers cooling overview, including cooling modeling requirements, cooling strategies and cooling optimization.

In this course, students learn features, functionalities and workflows in Autodesk Moldflow Insight through hands-on exercises.