BConnect is used by global leaders in: R&D and Engineering → to validate new materials, adhesives, and coatings. Operations and Manufacturing → to keep production lines consistent and defect-free. Quality and Continuous Improvement → to provide proof of reliability, reduce waste, and meet compliance.

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Invisible environmental factors and everyday human decisions can compromise surface integrity throughout the product development and manufacturing processes, leading to costly defects and failures

Surface energy is a critical factor in creating predictable bonds. Until now, ensuring surface quality has relied on slow, imprecise methods like water break tests and dyne inks, hindering efficiency and increasing the risk of production delays and product failures. These traditional methods are often cumbersome, subjective, and unsuitable for real-world production environments, and critically, don't generate objective data that can be use as part of continuous improvement or quality control.

Water Contact Angle provides an objective, numeric variable that can be used in setting specifications and monitoring Critical Control Points across all areas of your enterprise.

The Data you need, in the Lab and on the Production Line

BConnect revolutionizes surface quality management by extending the power of our patented Ballistic Deposition technology. This cutting-edge approach provides rapid, precise, and non-destructive surface measurements in under three seconds, delivering critical insights directly to your fingertips.

Unlike traditional methods, Brighton Science's technology is designed for portability and ease of use on the production floor. This enables real-time monitoring and process adjustments, ensuring consistent surface quality at Critical Control Points in your manufacturing process.

By providing a common language and measurement across your enterprise, BConnect unlocks the power of a true Surface Intelligence network, facilitating seamless collaboration and efficient decision-making across your organization. By keeping all critical stakeholders informed with real-time notifications, BConnect ensures compliance with your processes and specifications and empowers your team to detect and resolve issues before they happen.

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Experience BConnect: Two Powerful Solutions

Drive Innovation and Collaboration

Lab Network

Imagine a collaborative workspace where you can streamline surface treatment development, connect with colleagues worldwide, and accelerate innovation. Lab Network empowers your team to:

Conduct guided experiments to quickly identify and resolve surface challenges.
Use a structured experiment framework to set clear process specifications.
Share insights and collaborate across locations to prevent future issues.
Build a centralized knowledge base for continuous improvement.
Make data-driven decisions to support production and sales teams.

Unlock the potential of collaborative surface science.

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Optimize Production Processes

Process Monitor

Gain complete visibility and control over your production processes with Brighton Process Monitor. This powerful solution enables you to:

Identify and monitor Critical Control Points to ensure surface quality and compliance.
Track surface energy specifications across production lines, plants, and shifts.
Oversee manual and automated processes for consistent performance.
Get automated alerts to detect deviations and respond quickly.
Use data-driven insights to optimize production, reduce downtime, and enhance quality.

Optimize your manufacturing operations and ensure consistent, reliable surface performance across your entire organization.

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Superior Surface Quality Starts with BConnect.

Faster surface insights. Smarter decisions. Better products.

Request a personalized demo today and discover how BConnect can:

Solve surface quality challenges faster.
Prevent costly defects and reduce unnecessary expense.
Control your production processes.
Improve collaboration and efficiency across your organization.

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BConnect at a Glance

BConnect is a subscription-based service that delivers a complete surface quality management solution. It seamlessly integrates hardware and software, empowering you to:

Establish surface readiness specifications using BConnect’s experiment framework, ensuring consistency in your production process.
Leverage Brighton Science’s research and AI tools for deeper analysis and actionable intelligence beyond simple water contact angle readings.
Share critical surface data across your organization with built-in project management, notifications, and collaboration tools to enhance decision-making.
Quickly implement and customize your network, which can launch in less than four weeks with full support from our Customer Success team.
Stay ahead with continuous software updates and hardware enhancements, ensuring zero downtime for calibrations and maximizing your investment.

BConnect Features

Create Your Own Surface Intelligence Network

Imagine a system where all your surface quality data is connected, accessible, and actionable.

Easy to set up and scale: No matter your team’s size, building your Surface Intelligence network is simple. Our Customer Success team helps you configure a Network that aligns with your goals, enabling a quick start with the flexibility to grow. With a scalable pricing model, you can start small and expand as you see ROI.
Tailored to you: We configure your network to your specific needs, and activate features that can be used by Quality teams, SME's, and Plant Managers, granting each user the right level of access and control.
Focus on results: Our Customer Success Team works directly with you to ensure your network delivers valuable insights and drives real improvements in your manufacturing processes.
You're in control: Your data belongs to you. You decide who has access and how your network evolves. You can also access the data to pull into your systems with our secure API.

BConnect

Cloud-Based SaaS Platform

BConnect creates a centralized knowledge base, giving your entire organization access to critical surface quality data in real time. Compare surface cleanliness and contact angle across different treatments, such as plasma vs. manual wiping, and analyze trends using advanced statistical tools like mean, standard deviation, and skewness. Visualize results directly within the system using customizable charts—bar graphs, box-and-whisker plots, and more. Secure API access ensures seamless integration with other enterprise systems, allowing surface intelligence data to flow effortlessly where it’s needed most.

Seamless connectivity: Each sensor and user is linked to the BConnect cloud, enabling real-time data access and analysis across departments and locations.
User-based functionality: Receive notifications and alerts tailored to specific roles and responsibilities.
Secure and customized access: Assign data permissions based on user roles to ensure security and optimize workflows.
Built-in project management: Organize experiments, track progress, and collaborate efficiently with integrated project management tools.
Predictable and cost-effective pricing: Brighton Science’s SaaS model ensures a subscription-based structure for budget-friendly, scalable access.
Continuous improvements: Get automatic updates and enhancements, keeping you equipped with the latest surface quality management tools.
Enterprise-grade security and compliance: Maintain confidence in data protection, ensuring regulatory adherence and secure operations.

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Networked Sensors

For over two decades, Brighton Science’s patented technology has enabled customers to take independent surface measurements in both the lab and on the production line. Now, these devices and data sets can be seamlessly connected, creating a fully integrated surface intelligence network.

Brighton Science continuously enhances its technology by leveraging customer feedback, advanced machine learning algorithms, and telemetry data collected from multiple points within each instrument. This data-driven refinement ensures that hardware and software are always up to date, with no disruption to operations.

Versatile measurement options: Ballistic Deposition technology is designed for both manual and automated use. The handheld instrument is engineered for ease of use in any production environment, while automated systems integrate seamlessly into robotic and inline applications.
Always up to date: Instruments receive continuous hardware updates, including improvements to pumps, valves, and features, ensuring optimal performance.
Zero downtime for calibration: New instruments arrive before recalibration is needed—simply log in and swap devices with no production interruptions.

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Collect surface data when and where you want to—not just in the lab—with our flexible handheld units.

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Integrate sensors into your production line for easy, automatic monitoring.

Your Partner in Continuous Improvement

At Brighton Science, we measure our success by your success. Every BConnect Network is tailored to your specific application—whether you're a small company or a global enterprise. Our Customer Success team ensures your network is configured to align with your business priorities, supporting you from initial setup through ongoing optimization. We partner with you to maximize your return on investment, providing continuous guidance, training, and insights.

Dedicated onboarding and training: Our team works closely with you to configure your BConnect Network, ensuring a seamless rollout. Training is available through Brighton Academy, scheduled sessions, and AI-driven learning tools.
Ongoing partnership and optimization: Your Customer Success Manager serves as your strategic partner, helping you track performance, set goals, and continuously improve your network.
Regular performance reviews: We provide scheduled check-ins and detailed reports to assess how BConnect is delivering value and identify opportunities for enhancement.
Customer-driven innovation: Your feedback directly informs our software and hardware development, ensuring continuous improvements that align with your evolving needs.
Benchmarking and best practices: We help you compare your performance against industry standards and similar applications, offering insights to refine processes and maximize efficiency.

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What is BConnect?

BConnect is Brighton Science’s Surface Intelligence platform that combines handheld and automated instruments with powerful cloud-based software.

At its core are our Surface Analyst™ tools — portable, patented devices that measure the cleanliness and chemistry of surfaces in real manufacturing environments. These instruments capture quantifiable surface data using contact angle measurements, then seamlessly connect to BConnect software.

The BConnect platform analyzes, stores, and shares this data across teams, plants, and suppliers, turning invisible surface conditions into actionable intelligence that drives reliable adhesion, bonding, and coating outcomes.

Why do I need BConnect?

Traditional quality checks and lab tests can’t see what’s happening at the surface level. As a result, adhesion failures and coating defects often go undetected until late in production or in the field.

BConnect solves this by:

Measuring surface chemistry directly (via contact angle data)
Connecting lab and production environments into one network
Providing real-time monitoring and alerts for process control
Making surface data sharable and auditable across teams, plants, and suppliers

The result: fewer surprises, faster time-to-market, and improved reliability.

How does BConnect work?

BConnect integrates Brighton Science Surface Analyst tools, which use our patented Ballistic Deposition technology, with secure, cloud-based software.

Surface Analyst instruments take fast, non-destructive contact angle measurements directly on production parts. This technology allows measurements on virtually any surface: flat, curved, vertical, even upside-down.
Data is automatically uploaded to the BConnect platform, where it’s analyzed, trended, and compared against standards you define.
Dashboards and alerts notify your team when surfaces drift out of spec, so you can prevent failures before they happen.
Lab Network and Process Monitor modules connect R&D labs and production environments into a single Surface Intelligence network.

The result: real-time, quantifiable insight into surface conditions across development, manufacturing, and suppliers.

What makes BConnect different from other solutions?

Unlike traditional adhesion tests or lab-only methods, BConnect is:

Purpose-built for production environments — rugged, fast, and practical for use on the factory floor, not just in a lab.
Flexible in application — Surface Analyst tools can measure surfaces in any orientation (upside-down, vertical, convex/concave, complex geometries).
Direct and non-destructive — no coupons, peel tests, or destructive sampling required.
Scalable — connect a single instrument or an enterprise-wide network of labs, lines, and suppliers.

In short: BConnect is the only solution that brings lab-grade surface measurement into real-world manufacturing and connects that data across your organization.

This combination of direct measurement + connected intelligence is unique to Brighton Science.

How is BConnect implemented?

Every BConnect implementation is designed to align with your business priorities and is supported by Brighton Science’s Customer Success team, your partner in continuous improvement.

Here’s what implementation looks like:

Assess & Configure: Our experts tailor your BConnect Network to your specific application, whether you’re a small manufacturer or a global enterprise.
Onboarding & Training: We deliver dedicated onboarding and training through Brighton Academy, scheduled sessions, and AI-driven learning tools to ensure a seamless rollout. If you’re new to water contact angle (WCA) measurement, we’ll walk you through the transition, help you interpret WCA data in the context of your specific process, and guide you in designing experiments that yield actionable insights.
Ongoing Partnership: Your Customer Success Manager serves as a strategic partner, tracking performance, helping you set goals, and continuously optimizing your network.
Performance Reviews & Benchmarking: We provide regular reports and check-ins to measure ROI, compare performance against industry standards, and identify opportunities for improvement.
Customer-Driven Innovation: Your feedback directly shapes the evolution of BConnect’s hardware and software, ensuring the platform grows with your needs.

With this approach, you’re not just buying instruments and software, you’re gaining a long-term partner dedicated to your success.

Who uses BConnect?

BConnect is used by global leaders in:

R&D and Engineering → to validate new materials, adhesives, and coatings.
Operations and Manufacturing → to keep production lines consistent and defect-free.
Quality and Continuous Improvement → to provide proof of reliability, reduce waste, and meet compliance.

What ROI can I expect with BConnect?

Customers typically see:

Reduced scrap and rework from fewer adhesion/coating failures.
Lower warranty and recall costs by preventing field issues.
Faster product launches with fewer re-design cycles.
Greater throughput and uptime in manufacturing lines.
Improved supplier quality through shared standards and data.

The ROI often comes from preventing just one major failure or recall, which can save millions.

Is BConnect secure?

Yes. BConnect uses enterprise-grade cloud security, encryption, and role-based access controls. Data can be shared across teams and facilities securely, with full audit trails.

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How does BConnect support continuous improvement?

Because BConnect turns surface data into sharable intelligence, it allows teams to:

Compare performance across plants and suppliers.
Identify root causes of variation.
Standardize best practices.
Benchmark progress on the Surface Intelligence Maturity Model.

This accelerates continuous improvement programs by giving teams real data to act on.

Can BConnect scale across my organization?

Absolutely. BConnect is designed to connect a single lab or line, or scale globally across R&D, operations, and suppliers.

Learn more about Lab Network and Process Monitor.

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