Spray coating is more and more used in every corner for modern industrial production. If we take a view over the coating history we will see it has been heavily developed with quick iteration. Either the paint or the application technology or the machinery has been improving quickly over the last 30 years. Now standing at the industrial 4.0 entrance we will take a glance view of the next 5-10 years development of spray coating industry.
Practicality
Or usability, means the possibility of quick and wide application by different industries. With the technology development, any new devloped spraying technique can be quickly applied to real production to win the market. As there’re more and more players, everyone will try to give a competitive solution and doing new research.
Integration
The ndustrial manufacturing process involves many aspects, including the transmission of information, material management and the use of electronic machinery science, these are the content of modern production such as automobile manufacturing, with the development of computer science technology, spray coating technology is constantly improving, the boundary between various sciences is also diluted, through the interpenetration between different professions, the integration of manufacturing technology has become a major feature, can also better ensure the modern production development.
Systematicness
Take automobile industry for example. For automobile coating technology is to carry out a comprehensive analysis over the entire automobile design, which is related to the overall physical property and comfort. Thus the overall design and coating have to be carefully considered in the production process. The used equipment has to ensure the efficiency of processing, the entire system engineering to play a comprehensive efficiency, of which the technical level is directly related to the overall production process of information collection, transmission and overall performance.
Digital Management
Spray coating informatization means to take advantage of the digital system design and improve the overall coating effect. Through digital processing to better meet the user demand, the popular solution have been used such as CAX (CAD, CAPP, CAE, CAM) system, PDM system, MPII system, ERP system, etc., the simulation of digital design of products, automatically improve the flow of processing and capital, to achieve comprehensive digital management.
Intelligence
Intelligent system in the process of spray painting has widely improved and applied, solved various problems in painting technology especially in automotive painting. It’s effectively combining intelligent systems and computing technology and fuzzy control technology and other advanced technologies, which is very adaptable and improves its friendliness.With the continuous development of electronic technology in the automotive industry, automotive in-vehicle information system and network technology accelerate the reform of automobiles, and the future of automobiles will move towards diversified development and realize the development of network technology and integration.
Virtualization Design
Virtualization design is the process of virtual transfer and virtual processing of the overall manufacturing process. The painting process is completed in the computer, the problems in the practical application are found in time and can be effectively handled, thus the overall cost will be better controlled. The production cycle and product competitiveness will be effectively improved.
Green
Not new but a must in future development. Based on green environmental protection, the development will put forward higher requirements, the research of new coating development with green energy will also trigger new materials for future products.
