Videos

Watch the method before you book the room.

Real modules from the Automotive Plastic Part Design seminar. If twenty minutes changes how you think about a safety factor, imagine three days, with your own drawings on the table.

From the seminar

Five sessions. No fluff.

Filmed from the ETS seminar and webinar program.

Webinar

Plastic part design webinar

The long-form session: how the ETS method approaches a plastic part from concept to assembly.

Seminar module

Safety factors

How to choose and defend safety factors for plastics, where material data is never as clean as steel.

Seminar module

In-mold assembly

Cutting part count and assembly steps by building the assembly into the tool.

Seminar module

Polymer material selection

Screening resin from the service environment backwards, and the traps in the datasheet.

Overview

Introduction to the seminar

What three days of Automotive Plastic Part Design covers, and who it is built for.

Next step

Next session: Oct 20–22, 2026, Grand Rapids.

Three days with the textbook author at GVSU’s DeVos Center, from $1,895. $200 off per attendee for 3+ from one organization.

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