Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk › Research
Description
Whilst there are continuing technological breakthroughs pushing new coating and surface treatment developments, there are also regulatory, legislative and performance demands which act to pull-through developments in surface processes and coatings with particular attributes to meet the challenges faced by manufacturing industry. It is therefore important that coating companies and those developing coatings work together with these end-user companies and become integrated into the product development programs; this includes becoming embedded into the end-user’s in-house testing and validation systems. Examples are provided of end-user test programs for new coatings and the methodologies and philosophies driving the adoption of new coatings by major manufacturing organisations.