What the Coating Line Doesn’t Tell You. Read the article
What the Coating Line Doesn’t Tell You. Read the article
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As vehicles electrify, a hidden material problem can become a platform-wide cost.
Electrification and shared vehicle platforms have raised the cost of a defect. One material or process problem can now reach across many vehicles, and recall and warranty exposure increasingly falls on suppliers as well as OEMs.
Vehicles also depend on more materials that are hard to check, including protective coatings, thin films, welded joints and foams, all under tight launch timelines and cost targets.
Many of these are sampled or tested late in the process, surface tools stop at the top layer, and a fix found after launch costs far more than one found before it.
PlasmaSens™ is designed to give OEMs and suppliers material data earlier in the production process, from the parts and materials themselves. One non-contact scan, with no sample preparation, can report properties and defects at the same locations and compare a part with a known-good reference, while the part continues through its process. Materials within reach include protective and functional coatings, paint systems, thin films, welded joints and foams.
Further properties are available based on your process needs, using models calibrated on your own reference measurements.
This helps teams find material problems sooner, narrow down root causes faster, and bring stronger evidence to launch and supplier quality decisions.
Finding weld and coating defects early helps vehicles perform as designed in the field.
Problems can be found before more value is added to a part or assembly.
Better material data helps keep a local problem from reaching an entire vehicle platform.
Earlier evidence and faster root-cause work help teams resolve quality issues before launch.
The fastest way to evaluate PlasmaSens™ is with your own material. Book a demo scan, or send us samples and we will return a report.
