Analysis of impurities arising from braising processes in thin wire filigree jewellery

中国珠宝是一个设计师，制造商和零售商挤压金属丝珠宝。这种稀有的珠宝很难制造。除了劳动密集型之外，设计的范围往往限于众所周知的传统形式，因此经验丰富的制造商逐渐发展出可靠地生产复杂几何形状的方法，而不会经历代价高昂的失败。由于无法将制造过程编纂成书，华润珠宝无法像现在高街珠宝品牌所期望的那样，在范围和频率上推出新设计。该项目将研究将故障（如机械故障和电镀故障）与特定制造步骤联系起来的测量技术。如果成功，将这些测量技术应用于广泛的生产件和新设计件的后续工作可能会导致制造工艺能够从绘图板精确指定，使中国珠宝在开发新设计方面具有更大的灵活性，并使该品牌与高街铸造珠宝品牌相比更具竞争力。

China Jewel is a designer, manufacturer and retailer of extruded wire filigree jewellery. This rare type of jewellery is difficult to manufacture. In addition to being labour intensive, the range of designs tend to be limited to well-known, traditional forms, whereby experienced makers have gradually evolved methods of reliably producing the complex geometries without experiencing costly failures. An inability to codify the manufacturing process prevents China Jewel from offering the range and frequency of new designs that is now expected from high street jewellery brands.This project will investigate measurement techniques to associate failures (eg mechanical failures and electroplating failures) with particular manufacturing steps. If successful, follow-on work applying these measurement techniques to a broad range of production pieces and newly-designed pieces could lead to manufacturing processes becoming capable of being specified precisely from the drawing board, giving China Jewel much more flexibility in developing new designs and enabling the brand to be competitive versus high street cast jewellery brands.