Gloss­me­ters for tough­est
              QC require­ments

Auto­mo­tive inte­rior design is becom­ing more and more impor­tant in purchas­ing deci­sion. A vari­ety of mate­rials, from leather to plas­tics, are used and need to be har­monized. Addi­tio­n­ally, sur­face struc­tures vary from large grains to fine stip­ples, usu­ally with very low gloss. In order to guar­an­tee a uni­form look among the vari­ous parts very tight tol­er­ances are spe­c­i­fied.

As a start­ing point mas­ter stan­dard plaques are usu­ally man­u­fac­tured with flat and sev­eral grained areas. These are sent to parts sup­pli­ers as their tar­get to achieve with actual pro­duc­tion parts.
As the mas­ter plaques and final parts are often made of dif­fer­ent mate­rials the sup­pli­ers work closely with the car maker. In the end final appro­val is given on a pro­duc­tion part. This pro­duc­tion part now becomes the stan­dard for the sup­plier.

Instead of work­ing with abso­lute gloss num­bers, sup­plier pro­duc­tion QC needs to be based on the signed-off part where only the dif­fer­ences are checked with the gloss­me­ter. This pro­ce­dure elim­i­nates the repro­du­ci­bil­ity error as gloss is mea­sured rel­a­tively on the same type of mate­rial and same sur­face.

micro-gloss S fam­ily

Only test­ing instru­ments with excel­lent pre­ci­sion will be able to objec­tively con­trol pro­duc­tion. The new micro-gloss S fam­ily offers improved per­for­mance for 60° gloss in the crit­i­cal low gloss range (0-10 GU). This excel­lent accu­racy can be guar­an­teed due to our patented cal­i­bra­tion pro­ce­dure in the pro­duc­tion of the gloss­me­ters.

• For any mate­rial: paint, plas­tics or highly reflec­tive met­als
• Long-term sta­ble cal­i­bra­tion and auto­matic check of cal­i­bra­tion stan­dard
• Tem­per­a­ture sta­ble data
• 10 year war­ranty on the light source
• Dif­fer­ence and Pass/Fail
• Statis­tics and Mem­ory (999 read­ings)
• Easy menu oper­a­tion with scroll wheel
• easy-link soft­ware for direct trans­fer to Excel®
• Data trans­fer from the gloss­me­ter to the PC via
  USB or Blue­tooth® wire­less tech­nol­ogy