This course helps participants Develop an understanding of the characteristics of glass as a packaging material.  The course will introduce participants to techniques for the evaluation of flaw severity as well as how to distinguish between functional and cosmetic defects.

The objective of this seminar is to teach students appropriate fracture diagnosis techniques that are needed to solve glass breakage and other performance related problems.

Participants will learn key design principles necessary to achieve acceptable bottle performance. Skills are taught that can be used to evaluate finite element analysis (FEA) of new concept designs.

This seminar is intended to introduce the participants to the fundamental principles of proper batch and furnace operation in order to obtain acceptable glass quality while limiting the occurrence of problems such as color variation, density, seeds, stones, cord, viscosity, thermal expansion and annealing.  Participants will also be exposed to the techniques employed to obtain critical physical property measurements as well as an explanation of how to interpret the generated data.

This seminar focuses on the identification of stones and how they can be quickly and accurately analyzed.  The various analytical techniques will be presented and studied with hands-on samples.  Examples of stones will be presented and discussed along with the steps that must be taken to correct the problem.