When a Customer Needs You to Go the Extra Mile...

One day you're just a supplier. Then one day you become a partner in a joint venture WITH your customer. Well that's just #adayinthelife at Spray Tech Systems, Inc.

We find that we are successful as a company when we operate as a team. We use this same approach with our customers. Besides, we are relentless paint system and powder coating solution providers.

Take this automated paint system customer for instance. They were looking to increase their throughput by increasing the speed of their conveyor line. Their current FPM (or feet per minute) was 7FPM. They were looking to increase the paint line speed to 9FPM.

With any change to an engineered system, there is typically a ripple effect. They are currently only applying a light wet film build with their primer coating because the window for the part to cure was already short. If they speed up the line or increased the wet film build, then the parts would not cure prior to reaching the top coat booths. Increasing the line speed took what was barely making it to now with a light wet film build and turned it into a real problem or potential failure.

We have a few solutions lined up for this customer, but first we needed to test out our theories...

The first theory was adding forced air with heat to the flash tunnel would allow them to increase the paint line speed and be able to paint a top coat on parts that were dry to handle (DTH). Of course, some modification to the layout may be needed to make this work.

The second theory was they could increase the wet film thickness of the primer and the forced air with heat would still allow the part to cure in time to apply the top coat.

The results are in and are VERY interesting!

Contact us at sales@spraytechsys.com or 405-948-8696 to allow us to share more of the story or to find out how we can help you with one of your projects.