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规模为每年20亿英镑。减震器管等汽车零部件的内孔涂层是这一市场的一个非常重要的方面。Keronite开发了一种等离子体电解氧化（PEO）涂层技术，该技术具有广泛应用于功能部件内部表面的潜力。然而，为了在可接受的成本下实现所需的性能，我们需要开发一种全新的方法来选择金属部件的涂层，使用自动化过程来实现关键的功能涂层。该公司将开发具有改进沉积控制的高价值制造方法，以实现选择性PEO表面覆盖面积降至25平方毫米。这将特别适用于内部功能表面涂层，特别是管和空心截面。通过实现这一目标，我们将能够将产量提高400%，并将成本降低50%至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%.