PROwESS - Innovative PROcEss control to achieve Selective Surface coating.

英国工程涂料行业价值110亿英镑，影响产品价值1400亿英镑。汽车行业的表面工程和涂料市场为20亿GB/年。汽车部件的内孔涂层，如减震器管，是这个市场的一个非常重要的方面。科龙特开发了一种等离子电解氧化(PEO)涂层技术，该技术有可能实现功能部件的广泛应用，特别是内表面的应用。然而，为了以可接受的成本获得所需的性能，我们需要开发一种全新的方法来选择金属部件涂层，使用自动化过程来实现关键的功能涂层。Prowess将开发一种具有改进的沉积控制的高价值制造方法，以实现选择性PEO表面覆盖率低至25平方毫米。这将特别适用于专门用于管材和中空型材的内部功能表面涂层。通过实现这一点，我们将能够将产出率提高高达400%，并将成本降低60%。

The UK engineering coatings industry is worth >£11bn affecting products worth £140bn. The Surface Engineering and Coatings market for the automotive sector being £2bn/year. Internal bore coating of automotive components such as damper tubes are a very important aspect of this market. Keronite have developed a Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation (PEO) coating technology that has the potential to achieve widespread application for functional components with particular application to internal surfaces. However, to achieve required performance at acceptable costs, we need to develop a fundamentally new approach to the selective coating of metal part using an automated process to achieve critical functional coatings. PROWESS will develop a high value manufacturing approach with improved deposition control to achieve selective PEO surface coverage down to 25sq.mm. This will have particular application for internal functional surface coatings specifically for tubes and hollow sections. By achieving this, we will be able to increase output rates by up to 400% and reduce costs by >60%.