Step 1: Appear­ance Con­trol after E-coat
Same E-coat sys­tem was applied on rough and smooth steel. The influ­ence of rougher steel can be seen in increased Wb and Wc-val­ues.

Orange Peel and DOI mea­sure­ment
on high to semi gloss sur­faces

... appear­ance con­trol is no longer limited to final top­coat inspec­tion.
The orange peel meter scans the opti­cal pro­file of high gloss sur­faces using a laser light source. An addi­tio­nal, infrared - high energy LED allows mea­sur­ing the same struc­ture spec­trum (0.1 - 30 mm) on medium gloss sur­faces. The dull­ness mea­sure­ment is recorded with  state-of-the-art CCD cam­era tech­nol­ogy. It gives infor­ma­tion on the image form­ing qual­i­ties of the sur­face caused by struc­tures < 0.1mm.

Close the appear­ance con­trol loop
for the entire paint pro­cess

Thus, the sur­face qual­ity after each paint pro­cess step can be objec­tively eval­u­ated. No more guess­ing which sub­s­trate layer is influ­enc­ing the final appear­ance. The wave-scan dual will help you to objec­tively ana­lyze appear­ance problems and reduce the time neces­sary for trou­ble shoot­ing.

Exam­ple: Influ­ence of Steel Qual­ity
on Final Appear­ance

wave-scan dual

Step 3: Appear­ance Con­trol after Top­coat
The final appear­ance shows higher short­wave val­ues on the rougher steel panel. There­fore, the smooth panel will appear more bril­liant.

wave-scan dual – a diag­nos­tic tool for trou­ble shoot­ing and opti­miz­ing appear­ance
Now, you can estab­lish appear­ance spe­c­i­fi­ca­tions for each paint layer to ensure the final appear­ance is always on tar­get. 

Step 2: Appear­ance Con­trol after Primer Sur­facer
The primer sur­facer was applied on both pan­els. The rough­ness of the steel qual­ity can still be detected in increased Wb and Wc- val­ues. This primer sys­tem could not com­pletely cover the steel influ­ence.

Always ready

The orange peel meter is oper­ated with a recharge­able bat­tery pack (Li-Ion). The dock­ing sta­tion auto­mat­i­cally charges the bat­tery pack and trans­fers the mea­sured data to the PC.

Optio­n­ally, the instru­ment can be oper­ated with 3 stan­dard mignon alka­line or recharge­able bat­teries - good for 1000 read­ings.

Objec­tive and reli­able
appear­ance data

• Good cor­re­la­tion to wave-scan DOI on high gloss sur­faces
• Good cor­re­la­tion to mechan­i­cal pro­filome­ter
  read­ings on medium gloss sur­faces

Easy to use with one hand

• For flat and curved areas
• Small and light weight
• Scroll wheel oper­a­tion and mul­ti­lin­gual menu
• Selectable scales and scan lengths
• Full statis­tics with sav­ing in selectable mem­ories
• USB port for data trans­fer to PC
• Soft­ware smart-chart:
  - Organizer files for sam­ple iden­ti­fi­ca­tion
  - Data man­age­ment with SQL Database
  - Stan­dard QC Reports
  

select mode ...

and mea­sure

Comes com­plete with:
Orange peel  meter, Pro­tec­tive cover,
Ref­er­ence tile with cer­tifi­cate,
Soft­ware smart-chart on CD,
Dock­ing sta­tion and inter­face cable,
2 recharge­able Li-Ion bat­tery packs,
Bat­tery holder for AA bat­teries,
3 Bat­teries, Oper­at­ing man­ual,
Car­ry­ing case
Train­ing

Free 1x pre­ven­tive main­te­nance ser­vice
dur­ing war­ranty period

Sys­tem require­ments:
Oper­at­ing sys­tem 32-bit: Win­dows® XP SP3,
Vista SP2 or Win­dows 7 SP1
Micro­soft® .NET Frame­work 4
Excel® ver­sion: 2003 or 2007, incl. VBA
Hard­ware: Core 2 Duo, 2.2 GHz, or equi­va­lent
Mem­ory: 2 GB RAM
Hard-disk space: min. 100 MB
Mon­i­tor res­o­lu­tion: 1280 x 1024 pixel or higher
Disk drive: CD-ROM or DVD drive
Inter­face: free USB port

¹Stan­dard devi­a­tion

• Data anal­y­sis using stan­dard QC-reports:
  - Sum­mary by lines to show at one glance how vari­ous
    col­ors are run­n­ing at dif­fer­ent paint lines
  - Trend chart to show how spe­c­i­fied zones per­form
    over a defined time range
  - SPC-chart for daily pro­cess con­trol of your crit­i­cal
    col­ors and high­run­n­ers: xR-chart
  - Zone pro­file for trou­ble shoot­ing using the
    struc­ture spec­trum
  
• Cre­ate your own reports in Excel®
  - Trans­fer data from the database to Excel®
  - Pivot func­tion to define lay­out in Excel®

The train­ing can be per­formed in one day or two half days. It is rec­om­mended to  split the train­ing into two half days:

Day 1: The­ory and basic oper­a­tion (set-up organizer,
           tak­ing read­ings and sav­ing data in a database)
Day 2: 3-4 weeks later to ensure read­ings were taken and 
          saved in a database. Data anal­y­sis and stan­dard
          QC reports can be explained using cus­tomer 
          spe­cific data.

Train­ing wave-scan dual
BYK-Gard­ner offers you more than just an instru­ment. We assist you in oper­at­ing the wave-scan sys­tem and under­s­tand­ing your appear­ance read­ings. As a result you will be able to use the orange peel meter to save time and money and at the same time improve your qual­ity. 
There­fore, the instru­ment comes with a one day train­ing course includ­ing:

1. Orange Peel and DOI The­ory

• Visual per­cep­tion and instru­men­tal mea­sure­ment of Orange Peel and DOI
• Data inter­pre­ta­tion: How can the struc­ture spec­trum be used to opti­mize pro­cess / mate­rial param­e­ters

2. Oper­a­tion and Soft­ware Train­ing

• Set-up of an “Organizer” to cre­ate a rou­tine mea­sure­ment pro­ce­dure
• Pro­gram­ming of the instru­ment with “organizer” and mea­sure­ment of sev­eral sam­ples
• Direct data trans­fer to Excel for doc­u­men­ta­tion of indi­vi­d­ual read­ings
• Data trans­fer to smart-chart soft­ware and sav­ing in a database for rou­tine QC
  
  

For Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Ser­vices and Pre­ven­tive Main­te­nance
see pages 268 - 270.