"Industry 4.0" develops solutions that use proven mass production methods to manufacture customized products – in extreme cases with a batch size of 1.
In that context, personal color selection is playing an increasingly important role in many markets – and also posing new challenges for powder coating operations. With its HDLV pumps, Nordson's highly efficient dense phase technology is available from manual application to fully automated, robot-controlled coating systems: a perfect example of pioneering coating technology that combines maximum productivity and flexibility with optimum profitability.
Since demands for the customizability of products are rising right along with more intense competition and cost pressures, the cost-effectiveness and flexibility of coating systems are playing an increasingly decisive role. The solution lies in the streamlining of processes ("lean manufacturing") and the minimization of downtimes, while effective material usage also helps reduce production costs and raise profit margins.
This also places high demands on an equipment system, because the investment in a state-of-the-art powder coating system is amortized by:
• fast coating processes and high output
• uniformly high coating quality and film thickness without rework
• a high degree of automation requiring minimal intervention by operating personnel
• economical operation that consumes a minimum of resources
• the ability to change colors rapidly – even more than once during a shift
Nordson dense phase technology: Integrated, efficient, flexible
The key to Nordson's high-efficiency powder coating is dense phase technology with its characteristic HDLV (High Density Low Velocity) pumps, which has dramatically improved both processes and results.
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