Automotive Coatings: Materials & Applications

Complete Seminar Details

Automotive coatings users and suppliers are facing ever increasing pressure to upgrade performance of their products and comply with environmental regulations. Both groups are making efforts to reach specific standards set by their suppliers and customers. As a result, many types of coatings and application methods have become available which are not widely known but which will become standard practice in the near future. The purpose of this seminar is to share knowledge of current processes and materials and share information regarding future trends in the industry.

This practical seminar offers a sound assessment of the latest developments in materials, application methods, and process selection for use in the automotive coating and supporting industries. It focuses on material properties of coatings and substrates, coating application, and the design of high performance and environmentally compliant coating operations. Corrosion and methods of preventing corrosion through the use of protective coatings, including case histories and troubleshooting approaches are discussed. An interactive, learner controlled instruction style, with an emphasis on problem solving discussions, makes it easy for attendees to obtain answers to specific questions.

Benefits of Attending

• Develop an overall understanding of coatings and corrosion prevention methods and processes
• Learn how to select automotive finishes, primers, plastics, and become familiar with their properties, as well as costs and application methods
• Gain a valuable understanding of durability of coatings and corrosion phenomena and learn how to prevent corrosion by the systems approach
• Learn how to save costs by implementing more efficient processes and judicial selection of materials
• Receive unbiased technical opinions on what works, what does not and why
• Reinforce your mastery of troubleshooting and problem solving capabilities

Who Should Attend

Prerequisites

Seminar Content

Automotive Coatings--How to Engineer the Outcome

• Decorative and protective functions
• Class A Exterior Finishes
• Protective and interior coatings
• Properties
• Applications
• Durability

Adhesion of Coatings

• Adhesion of coatings
• Requirement for a good adhesion
• Methods of promoting and maintaining adhesion
• Effect of adhesion on durability and corrosion resistance of coatings

Surface Pretreatment

• Surface nature and characteristics
• Reasons and benefits of surface pretreatment
• How to select a proper surface treatment process
• Selection and application of primers, adhesion promoters and corrosion inhibitors
• Surface cleaning
• Mechanical and physical treatments
• Conversion coatings
• Anodizing treatment of aluminum

Electrocoating

• Corrosion protection via electrocoating
• Electrodeposition types, processes and applications
• Performance properties and economics

Functional and decorative platings

• Selection of platings and properties
• Performance of chrome, copper, Nickel, zinc, electroless nickel, and alloys
• Plating plastics
• Corrosion protection via platings

DAY TWO

How to Design for Corrosion Control

• Material selection
• Process variables
• Structural design
• Intact and non-intact protection methods

Corrosion and corrosion prevention

• Fundamentals of corrosion
• Corrosion types and mechanisms
• Methods of preventing corrosion
• The effect of coatings variables on corrosion

Corrosion Protection by Coatings

• How coatings protect and why they fail
• Factors affecting corrosion protection of coatings
• Selecting coatings for corrosion protection
• Approaches for preventing corrosion
• Avoiding corrosion by structural design
• Methods of evaluating corrosion protection of coatings

Selection, Properties and Application of Liquid Organic Coatings

• Coating types and properties
• Selecting compliant liquid coatings
• Advanced technologies
• Possible service life prediction
• Recent developments and future trends

Waterborne Coatings

• Advantages and limitations
• Understanding of Waterborne coatings
• Special consideration for Waterborne coatings application
• Selection, merits, application and process variables
• How to convert to Waterborne coatings

Powder Coating for Automotive Applications

• Current status of powder coatings
• When and where to use powder coatings
• Advantages and limitations
• Power types and properties
• Selecting powder coating and application methods
• What does it take to convert to powder coating
• Performance and troubleshooting

DAY THREE

Finishing Automotive Plastics

• Working with plastics
• Nature and paintability of plastics
• Selection of plastics: functional and decorative properties
• Special considerations for coating plastics: what to watch for
• Surface treatment of plastics and composites
• Selecting coatings for plastics
• Requirements for coating defect-free plastic parts
• Coating application and troubleshooting
• Factors affecting application methods
• Performance of coatings on plastics
• Evaluation of coatings of plastics

Surface Defect Characterization and Prevention

• Sources and examples of defects
• Types and causes of defects
• Methods of preventing defects

Durability and Testing of Coatings

• Why do paints fail
• Factors affecting the performance of coatings
• Mechanisms of paint failure
• Possible methods of coatings life prediction
• How to extend the life of a coating
• How to test coatings for specific applications
• Evaluation of coatings

Coatings Case Histories

1.8 CEU

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