Webinar: Top 3 Strategies to Improve Your Adhesive Bonding Operations
In this new webinar, industry experts Wilson Lee (Enercon Industries) and Lucas Dillingham (BTG Labs) will provide the top 3 strategies industrial manufacturers use to reduce risk, improve quality & gain throughput in their adhesion operations:
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Webinar: The Impact of Surface Preparation on Adhesive Performance
Join us as Douglas Katze, Defense & Space Sr. Market Manager for Henkel and Bill Buschle, Manager of Applications Development for BTG Labs discuss the impact surface preparation has on adhesive performance and best practices for achieving successful wetting and flow of electronic adhesives. An...
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Webinar: Creating a Digital Thread for Surface Preparation
New high-performance materials and technologies are being implemented for higher strength, lighter weight, improved reliability and lower costs than ever before. These manufacturing techniques require more reliable coating, bonding, and cleaning processes, as well as flexibility to adopt new...
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Guide to Creating a Digital Thread for Surface Preparation of Composites
Manufacturing environments create numerous opportunities for contamination, process variance, and poor performance in surface preparation steps. These risk factors impact bond strength, durability, reliability, and coating success. Knowing what contaminates are threatening composite surfaces and...
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CO2 Cleaning Validated Through Automated Contact Angle Measurement
To optimize your CO2 cleaning process you need a measurement system that is sensitive to the invisible changes occurring on the surface. Automated contact angle measurements through the Surface Analyst XA provide fast, accurate, quantitative validation of your cleaning process so you can be...
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Webinar: Finding the Most Predictive Cleanliness Validation Test for Zero Defect Manufacturing
For an adhesion and cleaning process control method to be truly effective it must completely fulfill two large criteria. It must have a precise measurement mechanism and it must be easily scalable throughout a production process. Outmoded testing methods such as dyne solutions, water break tests...
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Webinar: How Verification of Medical Device Surfaces in Product Development Eases Manufacturing
One of the most cumbersome aspects in medical manufacturing can be crossing the chasm between product development and production. This is where oversight groups can make progress sluggish but provides necessary checks for the safest and most reliable products. Manufacturers are always looking for...
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Webinar: Pushing Towards Zero Defects -Ensuring High-Reliability in High-Volume Manufacturing Processes for Bonding and Coating
Ensuring predictable outcomes in a manufacturing process is a critical component of quality assurance. Recent experience with bonding and coating operations across a range of industries has revealed that processes that were successfully demonstrated in a materials and process laboratory don’t...
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Webinar: How to Control Trace Contaminants to Prevent Composite Bond Failure
Manufacturing environments create numerous opportunities for contamination. Knowing what contaminants are threatening composite bond strength and reliability, as well as knowing where they are coming from (such as mold release left on a surface), is crucial to putting process controls in place to...
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Webinar: Guide to Effective Plasma Treatment for High Volume Manufacturing
Plasma treatment has been utilized for decades as a means of engineering the surface properties of polymeric materials for purposes such as adhesion. Until recently, plasma treatment has been a batch vacuum process, limiting its broader application. Recent development of atmospheric pressure...
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Eureka Moments: Discovering Non-Obvious Silicone Contamination
The factors that have a high impact on the success of adhesion processes are not always what they seem. Over the years we've discovered that contamination of surfaces that leads to adhesion failure does not always come from the most obvious places.
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Plasma Treatment Station with Automated, Inline Validation - The Surface Analyst XA
Automating the world's most powerful and reliable surface quality inspection technology has opened the doors for exciting collaborations. Our partners at PVA have integrated surface cleanliness measurement via the Surface Analyst XA, before and after using Plasmatreat's atmospheric plasma system,...
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Eureka Moments: Making FIPG Failure Free
In this new video series, BTG Labs will share our Eureka Moment stories. A Eureka Moment is any time that a customer is doing testing and they receive a measurement or a number that just doesn't make sense. We call it a Eureka Moment because it is that number that allows us to explore and dig deep...
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Webinar: Maximize Adhesion Reliability by Controlling Variables in Surface Cleanliness and Preparation Processes
Preparation of surfaces for adhesion includes processes like solvent or aqueous cleaning, ultrasonic cleaning and plasma treatment. These can be very effective if implemented with proper process control feedbacks. However, recent experience has revealed that processes that were successfully...
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Webinar: Uncovering Non-obvious Variables in Surface Preparation Processes for Bonding and Coating of Composites
Surface preparation for aerospace and automotive bonding and coating operations are still largely manual processes which frequently include some combination of solvent wiping and abrasion. These processes can be very effective if implemented with proper process control feedbacks.
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Webinar: Controlling Non-obvious Variables in Surface Preparation of Polymers to Maximize Adhesion
Preparation of polymers for adhesion includes processes like corona, flame and plasma treatment. These can be very effective if implemented with proper process control feedbacks. However, they don’t always translate into reliable manufacturing processes. Failure analysis has shown that this...
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Webinar: How to Develop and Quantitatively Control Plasma Treatment Processes for Polymers
Watch the recorded webinar where Brighton Science's (formerly BTG Labs) Founder and Chief Scientist, Giles Dillingham and Khoren Sahagian of Plasmatreat discuss the basic principles of plasma treatment of polymerics and outline well-defined methodologies for developing, evaluating, and controlling...
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Webinar: Strategies to Control and Optimize Plasma Treatment in Composite Manufacturing
With the recent advent of practical atmospheric pressure plasma treatment systems, pre-treatment of composite materials via plasma to improve the reliability of composite/composite adhesive bonds has been receiving a lot of attention. Understanding the relationship between plasma/material...
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Materials Library: Atmospheric Plasma on Catheters
Watch how the Surface Analyst lets medical manufacturers verify the quality of plasma treatment prior to coating catheters in order to achieve FDA validation.
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Materials Library: Flame Treatment on Polymers
Watch how flame treatment of polymers affects how ready your polymer surface is for additional processing. When it comes to preparing polymers for painting, printing, coating, sealing or bonding, there's an optimal level of treatment, and the Surface Analyst shows how overtreatment can negatively...
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Using the Surface Analyst to Validate Medical Tubing
Are you a medical supply or device manufacturer that has struggled to achieve FDA validation of your products due to medical tubing or otherwise?
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Materials Library: Corona Treatment on Polypropylene Film
Welcome to the BTG Labs Materials Library series. In this series, we use the Surface Analyst to demonstrate how the surface quality of a material changes based on common surface preparation processes. We also give typical contact angle measurements before and after processing, to give a general...
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Materials Library: Atmospheric Plasma Treatment on Composite
Welcome to the BTG Labs Materials Library series. In this series, we use the Surface Analyst to demonstrate how the surface quality of a material changes based on common surface preparation processes. We also give typical contact angle measurements before and after processing, to give a general...
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Materials Library: IPA Wipe & Sandpaper Abrasion on Aluminum
Welcome to the BTG Labs Materials Library series. In this series, we use the Surface Analyst to demonstrate how the surface quality of a material changes based on common surface preparation processes. We also give typical contact angle measurements before and after processing, to give a general...
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Materials Library: Atmospheric Plasma Treatment on Aluminum
Welcome to the BTG Labs Materials Library series. In this series, we use the Surface Analyst to demonstrate how the surface quality of a material changes based on common surface preparation processes. We also give typical contact angle measurements before and after processing, to give a general...
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Materials Library: IPA Wipe & Sandpaper Abrasion on Composite
Welcome to the BTG Labs Materials Library series. In this series, we use the Surface Analyst to demonstrate how the surface quality of a material changes based on common surface preparation processes. We also give typical contact angle measurements before and after processing, to give a general...
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The Surface Analyst Speaks Dyne Too
The Surface Analyst is a fast, easy, accurate, and non-destructive alternative for dyne inks. The Surface Analyst features a 'Dyne Mode' for manufacturers who already have an in-place process for dyne inks. 'Dyne Mode' allows manufacturers to maintain their investment in the dyne measurement...
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Improve Your Understanding and Control of Surface Preparation
This video uses an FIPG application to demonstrate how you can measure changes in your surface preparation process simply through the push of a button. {% video_player "embed_player" overrideable=False, type='scriptV4', hide_playlist=True, viral_sharing=False, embed_button=False, width='1920',...
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Webinar: Development and Control of Surface Treatments for Adhesive Bonding of Composites
Successful adhesive bonding requires precise control of the physical and chemical properties of a vanishingly small volume of material: the first few molecular layers that surround the interface.
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Webinar: Quantitative Control of Cleaning Processes
Primary Topics:• The Meaning of Surface Cleanliness--Going Beyond Particulates.• Quantifying Parts Washing• How to Measure Surface Cleanliness• Establishing Strong Interfaces that are Ready for Successful Adhesion
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Webinar: How to Control the Surface Properties of Thermoplastics to Maximize Adhesion
The success of bonding and printing to thermoplastics depends on effective control of a remarkably thin zone on the surface of a polymer.
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Webinar: Guaranteeing Cleaning Success in Manufacturing, Controlling your Surface with the Surface Analyst
This webinar delves into the challenges manufacturers face when establishing a bond. The success of printing, painting, sealing, or coating relies on the ability to control the bond surface. BTG Labs' Surface Analyst uses contact angle measurements to provide insight into the cleanliness level of...
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Brighton Science's (formerly BTG Labs) Surface Analyst™ and F-35 Program
In the early 2000s, the U.S. Air Force recruited Brighton Science to aid in the development of bonding technologies for composite materials to replace heavier aluminum and titanium in aircraft manufacturing. Carbon fiber composites provide lighter, stronger options for aircraft materials. But, to...
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Webinar: Measuring Surface Energy in Manufacturing and Repair of Composites to Assure Quality of Bonded Interfaces
This interactive tutorial provides a comprehensive look at common industry practices, including typical surface preparation methods for composites and an overview of the basic scientific principles involved in measuring surface energy and how it relates to material performance in manufacturing and...
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Webinar: Understanding and Controlling the Bond Surface in Manufacturing for Reliable Adhesive Bonding of Composites
The interactions between a bond surface and an adhesive that determine the strength and reliability of a bonded structure occur in a zone that is perhaps 1 nanometer thick.
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