Processing & Manufacturing Support
At CERAM we offer our automotive and transport clients full support in product and process optimisation for both new and existing components and systems.
Exacting quality standards, routinely cascaded down the supply chain, are a fact of life in the automotive industry. We provide a full suite of quality control procedures and tests, accredited to international standards, in order to ensure material and product quality, consistency and performance.
Failures during manufacturing can cause line or indeed complete unit shutdown. At CERAM, we work quickly and effectively to analyse and diagnose failures in order to minimise downtime, improve product and material process efficiency and optimise quality.
CERAM offers:
- Factorial Experimental Design for process analysis & diagnostics
- product and process optimisation
- yield/throughput improvement diagnosis & design
- full suite of QC procedures
- a wide range of pilot processes (e.g. composition, forming, firing, machining)
- full range of physical, chemical, mechanical and thermal QA/QC testing & analysis to determine & track specification control.
Our experts have provided testing and consultancy for the following applications:
- adhesion failure
- paint cratering
- corrosion
- lubricant performance
- case hardening
- passivation
- fabric degradation
- metallography
- tyre manufacturing
- windscreen ink
- circuit board malfunction.