RJG Inc.

RJG Incorporated
Privately held
Industry Injection Molding
Founded Traverse City, Michigan (1985)
Founder Rod Groleau
Headquarters Traverse City, United States of America
Key people
 Rod Groleau, Director
Dale Westerman, President & CEO
Products eDart, Sensors, Training & Consulting
Website rjginc.com

RJG Inc. is a training and consulting company that specializes in the injection molding industry. They offer certifications including Master Molder I, II, and III, Systematic molding, Injection molding essentials, and more.[1] They also offer the eDart system, a software program that allows for data extraction of plastic conditions inside the mold using pressure sensors, transducers and strain gauges. The company is responsible for pioneering "Decoupled molding" techniques which have since become industry standard.[2][3][4][5][6]

History

In 1985 Rod Groleau started a training and consulting company (then named RJG Associates, Inc.), where he developed techniques for retrieving data for plastic conditions inside the mold, previous to this only data from the molding machine itself was used for processing techniques. By 1999, the company developed controls allowing for different "stages" of molding and the "DART" (Data Acquisition and Retrieval with Transducers) system which allowed for data to be retrieved by personal computers. In 1998, the company began offering Master molder certifications, a training program of scientific techniques. Since then, the company has continued to develop.[7][8]

RJG's eDart system installed on an injection molding machine.

References

  1. ↑ "Registration". RJG Inc. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "DECOUPLED". Hansen Plastics Corporation. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  3. ↑ "Troubleshooting: Injection Molding Seven Steps Toward Scientific Troubleshooting". Plastics Technology. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "Implementing Decoupled Molding". Paulson Training Programs, Inc. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "Almanac: The fundamentals of Decoupled Molding". Plastics Today. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "Injection Molding Guide" (PDF). Lubrizol. p. 6. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
  7. ↑ "RJG touts pre-production molding analysis". Plastics News. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  8. ↑ "History". RJG Inc. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
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