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Topic: Sustainability
How a Cleanliness Specification Increases Quality Process Control in the Supply Chain
Undoubtedly, you’ve been working toward specific sustainability goals and specializing your skills to do one thing well instead of multiple things moderately well, or even poorly. But if your goals align around sustainability, it’s crucial to understand who your suppliers are and how your final...
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How Contact Angle Measurements Can Spectacularly Reduce Scrap Rates Today
Last Updated March 2023 Predicting production outcomes in manufacturing relies on accurate data that calculates the variables that actually affect things like reliability, performance and longevity of the product, like the soundness of bonds. There are countless tests to examine every conceivably...
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The Relationship Between Total Quality Management Systems and Sustainability
In the age of sustainability practices becoming more of the norm, there are a few ways in which your company can both abide by new regulatory standards concerning sustainable changes to your chemicals used and have a positive impact on your total quality management standards.
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Top 6 Reasons Your Internal Organization Should Care About Surface Intelligence
Intelligence is a funny thing. On its face, it seems like the best way to gauge intelligence is to measure one's capacity for maximum knowledge intake through rote memorization of facts and figures. That sounds good, but it doesn't feel quite right. Because we all know knowledge that's just piled...
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What is Materials Science & Why is it Crucial for New Product Development?
Many people are not familiar with the subject matter and discipline of materials science because it’s not taught in elementary or high school and only infrequently at the university level. Instead, we are often taught chemistry and physics. Chemistry teaches us how atoms and molecules interact,...
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Why Creating a Surface Intelligence Center of Excellence is Crucial for Manufacturing
As manufacturing becomes more complex and the globalization of supply chains increase, the need for a Surface Intelligence Center of Excellence grows. Such a center would compile data, training and best practices from across the business to identify areas where further efficiency and quality...
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What Is the Role of Surface Chemistry in Industry?
Manufacturing has become increasingly complex with the fusion of technologies that are blurring distinctions between the digital, physical, and biological worlds. Physical products and services have transformed significantly due to enhancements made possible by digital capabilities. New...
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How to Bring Reliability to Complex Aspects of Material Engineering
Materials science and engineering influence our lives daily and open the door to new innovations in manufacturing. Each time you wear pair of shoes, scroll on your smart device, use a golf club, you are interacting with a product that was produced using materials, adhesives, and coatings that work...
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How to Quickly Qualify Suppliers and Make Changes with Confidence
Materials used to manufacture increasingly advanced and complex products have likewise evolved to be equally advanced and complex. As a result, it has become critical to understand the surfaces of these materials in order to optimize their ability to accept various paints, films, coatings, and...
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Does Your Organization Take A Holistic Approach to Innovation?
Innovation can be a scary thing. For companies built on order, predictability, and success, innovation can be unsettling. It can be messy, unpredictable, and prone to failure before producing a demonstrable payback. But, innovation is vital. Without it, there can be no evolutionary growth or...
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BTG Labs evolves capabilities, leadership and name to become Brighton Science—bringing unmatched expertise to the emerging field of Surface Intelligence.
BTG Labs, a company that has spent the past 20 years solving critical adhesion issues and developing the world’s first surface inspection technology for leading manufacturers, has evolved its capabilities, leadership and name to become Brighton Science.
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How to Minimize Production Scrap from Adhesion Failures
In manufacturing, it is extremely difficult to eliminate all inefficiencies and production deficits. It is not uncommon for setbacks to occur in the form of scrap and rework due to product failure before the product is shipped to the market or recalls and returns after the product has already been...
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