Quality Monitoring for Surface Treatment from Plasmatreat
In the age of Industry 4.0, process safety and reproducibility requirements are constantly increasing. In the automotive and electronics sectors, for example, or in medical technology, securing production steps and the traceability of those steps are important parts of documentation. Plasmatreat GmbH, a leader in atmospheric plasma technology from Steinhagen, Germany, supports digitized manufacturing with its Plasma Control Unit (PCU) and makes numerous controls, regulation and monitoring functions available to ensure consistently high surface-treatment quality and reproducibility.
One of the big challenges in surface treatment with plasma is that it must not leave visible traces on the substrate. How is the result of the treatment evaluated? Auxiliary parameters such as purely inspecting the plasma beam’s color are not, according to Plasmatreat, sufficient for comprehensively evaluating treatment quality.