Injection Molding Consultant Joe Henz
Plastic Injection Molding Expert Joe Henz
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Joe Henz is a plastic part design and injection molding expert with over 35 years of experience in the plastics industry. His experience in plastic part design, plastic selection, and injection molding encompasses the appliance, automotive, medical, and consumer products industries.
He has personal experience injection molding a wide range of (both experimental and commercial) commodity and engineering plastics. Joe's time as team leader of a Computer Aided Engineering Group at GE gives him valuable insight in using Finite Element Analysis and Moldflow to solve Part Design and Molding problems. |
- Plastics engineer adept at troubleshooting plastic part designs, processing problems, and field failures of injection molded parts.
- Can take leadership role in tooling/design reviews making him one of the industry's most sought out consultants
- Train CAD designers and engineers in 3D design for moldability of plastic parts and material selection.
- Hands-on experience in plastics processing, material testing, part design, and mold flow analysis.
- Accomplished public speaker.
Experience
Private Practice
Dec 2013 – Present
Consultant
Polymers Center of Excellence, Charlotte, NC
Dec 2003 – Dec 2013
Training Manager / Injection Molding Lab Manager
Aug 2003 – Dec 2003
Instructor
GE Plastics Polymer Solutions Group, Atlanta, GA
July 1996 - July 2002
Director
GE Appliances, Louisville, KY
Aug 1988 - July 1996
Design Methods and Analysis Group, Lead Engineer
GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady, NY
Aug 1987 - Aug 1988
Plastics Technology Program
General Dynamics, Sand Diego, CA
July 1986 - July 1987
Organics & Composites Group, Composites Engineer
ARMCO Inc., Middletown, OH
March 1983 - Sept 1985
Polymer & Composites Research Group, Co-op
Private Practice
Dec 2013 – Present
Consultant
- Teach injection molding and part design at companies and the Mechanical Engineering College of UNC-Charlotte.
- One of the industry specialists in plastic selection, part design, and injection molding
Polymers Center of Excellence, Charlotte, NC
Dec 2003 – Dec 2013
Training Manager / Injection Molding Lab Manager
- Taught industry short-courses in plastic selection, part design, and injection molding
- Created new coursework, and doubled student count and training revenue in two yrs.
- Injection molded wide range of commercial and experimental resins for testing.
Aug 2003 – Dec 2003
Instructor
- Advanced Injection Molding
- Moldflow
- Mold Design
GE Plastics Polymer Solutions Group, Atlanta, GA
July 1996 - July 2002
Director
- Managed Computer-Aided Engineering group of 4-6 analysts. Supported GE Plastics North America in all structural analysis and moldflow simulation.
- Performed advanced analyses including warpage, gas-assist, and co-injection.
- Management responsibility for quality and delivery of all process simulation projects (approximately 250 projects per year).
- Trained junior members in CAE and plastics technology.
- Personally performed 120-160 mold filling/packing/cooling analyses annually.
GE Appliances, Louisville, KY
Aug 1988 - July 1996
Design Methods and Analysis Group, Lead Engineer
- Used mold filling/mold cooling analysis to solve molding/part design problems.
- Instructed design engineers on plastic part design and material selection
- Operated injection molding, blow molding, and thermoforming equipment.
- Performed physical property testing and material characterization of plastics.
GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady, NY
Aug 1987 - Aug 1988
Plastics Technology Program
- Experimentally determined factors influencing interfacial stability of multi-layer polymer flow in a co-extrusion die
General Dynamics, Sand Diego, CA
July 1986 - July 1987
Organics & Composites Group, Composites Engineer
- Supervised fabrication, cure, and testing of composite materials for stealth cruise missile program. Secret military clearance.
ARMCO Inc., Middletown, OH
March 1983 - Sept 1985
Polymer & Composites Research Group, Co-op
- Research, development and material characterization of aerospace composites and commodity plastics
Education
Publications
- University of Louisville, M.S. Chemical Engineering, Aug 8 1990 - May 1992
- Degree received May 1992
- GPA 3.7/4.0
- Thesis work compared computer simulation of injection mold cooling with actual process using infrared camera.
- Work presented at the 1992 C-MOLD User’s Conference at Cornell University, and the1994 ASME Conference in Chicago.
- Paper published in Advances in Polymer Technology, Spring 1996.
- University of Cincinnati, B.S. Chemical Engineering Sept 1981 - June 1986
- Degree received June 1986
- GPA 3.3/4.0
- Six quarters of co-op in Polymers & Composites Research Group at ARMCO Inc.
Publications
- “Design Sensitivities of Mold-Cooling CAE Software: An Experimental Verification”, Advances in Polymer Technology, J.A. Henz and K. Himasekhar, Spring 1996.
- “What’s Different About Molding Engineering Plastics”, Plastics Technology, June 2013.
- “Don’t Forget the Cold Slug Well”, Plastics Technology, October 2013.
- “Don’t Overlook Gate Location”, Plastics Technology, February 2014.
