Description
Key Learnings
- Discover the factors for improved fiber orientation prediction
- Learn how to recognize the various causes of flow imbalance
- Discover how to model various overmolding processes
- Discover the simulation requirements for composite-molding hybrid design
Speaker
- Franco CostaDr. Franco Costa is Research Director for Moldflow injection molding simulation at Autodesk, Inc. With 29 years of experience with Moldflow simulation software, he has contributed to the technologies of 3D flow simulations, thermal analysis, crystallization analysis, structural analysis, final net-part shape prediction, and Multiphysics for the plastic injection molding simulation industry. Franco has moved through roles as a research engineer, Development Team leader, and manager, and he directs research projects for the Autodesk Moldflow group as well as acting as an internal reviewer and technology architect. Franco has presented at academic conferences in the field of polymer processing. He also acts as a referee on international journals and often presents overviews of Simulation Moldflow research-technology directions at Simulation Moldflow user meetings. Franco is based in the Autodesk Research and Development Center in Melbourne, Australia.