In Formula-1 racing, now an innovation in coating thickness measurement gives the automobile industry a new perspective: A menu-driven measuring system for checking and documenting paint coating thickness of motor cars. The CarCheck System from Automation Dr Nix, optimises the management of cost, quality and damage. A modern car is fitted with five highly qualitative coatings during the production process. Each of these layers - electrophoretically deposited bond coat, anti-chip layer, primer, base coat and clear coat - serve to protect the car body against corrosion and attacking weather. Although with 10O micron these layers together are no thicker than a hair. The CarCheck System allows the use of a defined network of co-ordinates to systematically create, record and document - for statistical quality control purposes - measurement spots of a car body in a menu driven environment. After selecting the type of vehicle (eg cabriolet or van) at least three measurements on defined spots of the measurement object (bumper [fender], bonnet [hood], side part, etc) are necessary for 'base measurement'. The 'intensive measurement' requires at least six measurements per object, which can be documented. For quality management and damage assessment, next generation measuring systems will provide a faultless analysis and documentation that will clear whether, for example, a 'particularly thick' coated part of the automobile results from an improperly repaired accident.
Car body coating measurement
Messung der Beschichtung von Karosseriekomponenten
PPCJ Polymers Paint Colour Journal ; 198 , 4530 ; 33-35
2008
3 Seiten, 2 Bilder
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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