Customized knowledge for our customers

“All things are hard before they become easy,” the English historian Thomas Fuller once said. With our workshops covering a wide range of topics in the coatings and paint industry, we want to help you master even major challenges with ease. Our experts impart their specialist knowledge in a practical way – either at your premises or via an online appointment. Are you ready for a brief overview of the current workshops?

Complaints – how to deal with them skilfully

The customer is king. But what do you do when the king complains? With tools and guidelines, we help you develop optimized workflows for this unpleasant but also unavoidable situation. This is how you turn dissatisfied customers into satisfied customers again.

Personnel – make optimal use of your employees

The shortage of skilled personnel is also affecting the painting and color industry. We show you how to make ideal use of existing personnel in order to relieve them. We also uncover optimization potential through training to improve your workflows. . The result is an action plan for personnel development, optimal workload and improved internal communication.

Fast order processing – so you are always one step ahead of competitors

Order acceptance, production, delivery – if delays occur in this process chain, there is a risk that your customers will switch to faster market competitors. Stop putting valuable customer relationships at risk. Together, we subject every step from order acceptance to finished processing to a critical review so that you have the decisive advantage on your side..

Digitization for your purchasing

Imagine your purchasing and development department as well as product management working optimally hand in hand when it comes to information on raw materials and suppliers, for example. Because great potentials for improved workflows lie in a reduction of silos! We show you how you can realize an interlocking of these departments and profit from it. For a better overview and more success.

How to: Digitization 4.0

Everyone is talking about it, but how do you digitize a paint factory? We identify dormant potential and explain how you can uncover it. Whether for purchasing, production or development – the intelligent paint factory helps you to significantly increase your efficiency.

Mystery colorimetry? Not with us!

In this workshop, we will teach you the basics you need to gain a basic understanding of color measurement. Learn in a practical and easy-to-understand way how to implement optimal color management – without an overly academic approach.

How to use your data treasures

In the digital age, data is rightly considered the new oil. We help you to better utilize relevant data from your company to make essential processes more efficient. For maximum success with minimum effort. To achieve this, we combine 150 years of experience in coating development and IT expertise.

Optimize dispersion

Dispersion is not without reason the process in the coatings industry with the highest added value. In our hands-on workshop, you will learn how to make optimum use of the aggregates employed for this purpose. In this way, you will achieve ideal capacity utilization and benefit from particularly efficient use of raw materials without this being at the expense of product quality.

Throughput times – make optimal use of the precious resource “time”

For companies, time is money. So don’t give away cash and discover free time resources thanks to our workshop. To do this, we analyze your throughput times and support you in better exploiting your existing or unused potential.

Accelerate your coating development process

How do you master the balancing act between an ever greater variety of raw materials on the one hand and ever higher customer requirements on the other? In our workshop, we present solution strategies that range from customer support to innovation strategy, depending on the focus. The result: You benefit from significantly accelerated coating development.

Do you know this? Two identical panels have been coated with the same paint and still look different. This is more than an annoying mistake, because the whole thing can quickly turn into an economic problem, because no customer is satisfied with such coating results.
But why do these different painting results occur? And what can be done to prevent this from happening in the first place? We have an idea…

For digital measurement of painted sheets and plates.

The Q-Chain® Surface Scanner Automatic is an automatic measuring machine that inspects painted panels for different characteristics using various measuring instruments and evaluates them statistically with integrated software.
From a loadable magazine, the panels are transported to the measuring station, where they are measured and then transferred to the output magazine.

In other words, the Q-Chain® Surface Scanner Automatic establishes a relationship between appearance and properties such as coating thickness, cloudiness and color intensity according to DIN EN ISO 28199 (2).

Modular design, versatile use.

One machine, many results: Because the Q-Chain® Surface Scanner Automatic can be operated with up to five commercially available measuring devices, you obtain concrete statements about the examined characteristics of the coating and their interrelationship.
Based on this evaluation, you can then precisely define tolerances and ranges so that the coating always achieves the desired result.

Here you can get more information about the Q-Chain® Surface Scanner Automatic:

 

Every operator of a paint shop is probably familiar with the problem that errors or irregularities repeatedly creep into the process and can only be eliminated again with a great deal of reworking and coordination with suppliers. But is this an irrefutable law of nature? We think not – and describe here how this “operational accident” can be cleverly circumvented and which innovative measurement methods offer optimum support in this respect.

In principle, one should for success:

• consider the entire process chain and not just their own.
• do not aim for retrospective quality control, but for prospective and proactive process control.
• include the customer requirement already in the development phase.

Control of the material

To be on the safe side right from the start, the properties of the material should be examined very early in the process. The task of measuring a color as it is present in the liquid paint due to pigments, binders and additives is performed by the Q-Chain LCM system. The paint is applied to a rotating disk and the spectrum is then measured without contact from three angles. Various color data can be determined from the spectra. Since the material is examined in its liquid state, a major source of process scattering, the influence of the coating, can be excluded.

The study of the coating

During further processing of the coating material, the process result depends on some measurable parameters. For example, in order to evaluate coating systems, a correlation is established between the appearance and the coating thickness – a job for the Q-Chain® Surface Scanner Automatic. It measures test sheets that have previously been painted with a coating thickness gradient. This provides information about the coating thickness range in which the painting process will produce the desired results. The coating thickness can then be used as a control variable in the subsequent application process.

The advantage of process optimization

In addition to the corresponding measurement technology, production systems support the alignment of processes to a prospective and proactive approach. With Flow2Grow®, an optimization approach related to the paint and coatings industry has now been developed for the first time. The system uses a combination of statistical methods, project management tools and optimized measurement technology.

The combination of these different optimizations makes it possible to almost completely eliminate material-related coating defects – a goal that should definitely be strived for in view of the ever-increasing demands on quality, speed and efficiency of production processes.

If you are interested in what other ideas we can use to optimize processes in the paint and coatings industry, just take a look at our newsletter. Or drop by here again sometime. We will report regularly on this in our blog.