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INDUSTRY NEWS
BYK-Gardner User Meetings 2018
The Insider Tip for CLASS A Quality
Control of Automotive Exterior Finishes
On November 7/ 8, 2018
BYK-Gardner known for
innovative QC solutions
for color, appearance
and physical properties
conducted its 9th US
User Meeting in Dearborn,
MI and two weeks later on
November 25 / 26, 2018 its
12th European User meeting
in Heidelberg, Germany.
Visual and instrumental
colour and effect control
Practical considerations for visual and
instrumental analysis by Stuart Kendall
Scott and Maika Spreeman, BASF Coatings
Visual and instrument assessments with
discussion of new colour systems BASF
Coatings, Dr Carlos Vignolo and
BYK-Gardner GmbH, Konrad Lex
The Creation of Total Colour Appearance,
Masayuki Osumi, Office Colour Science Co
Colour Differences in Standard Gray Scales
for Colour Change: Influence of the
Viewing Angle by Dr Manuel Melgosa,
Departmento de Óptica, Facultad de
Ciencias, Universidad de Granada,
18071 Granada
The theme of both meeting was “Colour and
Appearance Harmony” using BYK-Gardner’s
measurement solutions to achieve CLASS A
surface quality.
Over 100 participants from the automotive
industry including paint and part suppliers
exchanged their experience with best
practices and new approaches to visually
evaluate and instrumentally control Colour
and Appearance of solid and effect finishes.
Speakers from several automotive companies
and their entire supply chain presented a
variety of topics:
Objective data analysis to optimize
colour & appearance quality
Definition of a measurement scale of
graininess from reflectance and visual
measurements by Dr. Esther Perales and
Dr. Francisco Martínez-Verdú, University
of Alicante
New Understanding of Appearance
A new method to analyze wave-scan raw
data with FFT provides numbers that are
in very good agreement with perceptional
data derived from various visual
assessments, Thomas Dauser Audi AG
Digitalization to CLOSE THE LOOP
Dissecting Orange Peel –
A Process Oriented Approach by
Mike Bonner, St. Clair Systems
How Black is Black –
Jetness analysis by BYK-Chemie,
Dr Jörg Achterkamp and Brent Laurenti
Don’t generate a wave –
Effect pigments and wave-scan
by Dr. Andrea Fetz, Eckart GmbH
Smart data acquisition and transformation
into Information to support Optimal Decision
Making: Mike Coulthard, General Motors
Corporation
Colour Harmony through Data Share by
Mary Brooks and Jeana Chinn, Ventra and
Shawn Dvonch, Ford Motor Corporation
Statistical Process Control of Colour by
John Seymour, John the Math Guy LLC
Influences on effect pigments in coating
systems. Examples based on several
experiments by Werner Rudolf Cramer,
Consultant Challenges for automated quality
measurements and intelligent ways for
modern paint processes by Hans Jürgen
Multhammer, ASIS GmbH
Use of the Fingerprint Method to test for
application robustness of coatings by
Dr. Karl Dössel, Orontec GmbH Integrative coating concepts in the context
of digitalization by Fabian Müller,
Karl Wörwag Lack- und Farbenfabrik
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New mobility concepts
The Future of transportation mobility and
its effect on coatings, color, and pigments
by Chris Seubert, Ford Motor Company
Working as a team – benchmark studies
Mission Accomplished through Team Work
– It Takes a Team… to Coordinate a
Benchmarking Survey, Linda Gerhardt,
GM Vehicle Systems, Tracey Moorer,
Fiat Chrysler Association and Rae Roby,
BYK-Gardner USA
BYK-Gardner presented their latest product
developments, which were developed in
partnership with key players from the
automotive industry and their supply chain:
New spectro2guide:
Colour spectrophotometer with smallest
fluorimeter integrated to predict
color stability
New byko-spectra pro:
Light boot with CLASS A daylight D65
New project to objectively measure colour,
gloss and surface texture
A combination of practical applications
to consider for correlating visual and
instrumental data, real new developments
in the field of colour and appearance and
the opportunity to meet and exchange
information with experts make this event
a real insider tip in the automotive industry.
More information is available from
BYK-Gardner GmbH, P.O. Box 970,
82534 Geretsried, Germany: By fax:
[phone], the free service
no. 0-800-gardner (0-800-4273637)
or on the Internet at http://www.byk.
com/instruments
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