The powerful surface engineering industry paved the way for modern manufacturing
In September this year, the nineteenth world surface finishing Conference (Interfinish2016) will be held in Beijing. The 4 year world surface finishing conference is held in China for the first time. At that time, there will be more than 20 countries and regions of the surface technology professionals and entrepreneurs, scholars, thousands of people gathered in Beijing, the exchange of modern surface finishing technology. The latest products and technical achievements of the international surface finishing industry will also be displayed in the same period.
Although the surface finishing industry is very professional, it is closely related to mass life and modern manufacturing. Both metal products and non-metal products, including household appliances, daily hardware and so on, all kinds of surface decoration technology should be used. This technology has been used in modern cars from the bright chrome aluminum wheel hub to the ABS plastic chrome plated decorative strips. Some professional technologies in surface treatment technology have also developed into technologies for directly manufacturing products or new materials, such as printed circuit board manufacturing, electroforming, chip interconnection, nanomaterial manufacturing, composite manufacturing and so on.
Modern manufacturing requires strong surface engineering
Whether used industrial products or professional industrial products, one or more technologies and processes in surface treatment technology are needed to achieve the functions of product design or market needs. It can be said that there is no surface engineering, no modern manufacturing.
When these surface technologies are used in the product, they are specific to a series of surface processing work or process. We are familiar with coating construction, heat treatment, electroplating and so on. Most of them are relatively professional surface engineering technologies, such as thermal spraying, vacuum plating, laser surface treatment, ion implantation, molecular membrane technology and so on.
The laser surface treatment technology is taken as an example, including laser melting, laser surface strengthening, laser repair and laser catalysis. The laser beam can gather high energy beams at a high speed, and only play a role in the scanned area, which does not affect the performance of the non scanned region. And the 3D stereo scanning can be realized by the electronic computer. The built-in antenna in the mobile phone is made by using laser 3D electroplating technology.
However, most of the traditional technology in the application of surface engineering involves environmental problems. This is because a variety of chemicals and organic substances are involved in the material itself or in the process of the surface treatment. The waste gas, waste water and waste residue produced in the process of production and manufacture will bring serious harm to the environment if they are discharged at will. And in the process of production, it also poses a threat to the body of the production staff. Therefore, the surface treatment industry is one of the most prominent industries in industrial pollution. All countries have strict laws and regulations for pollution control, strict environmental assessment and access system for all polluting industries including surface treatment industry, so as to protect the increasingly fragile ecological environment. At the same time, the development and application of environmentally friendly green surface treatment technology and technology is the goal that the surface finishing industry needs to continue to pursue.
There is no hiding the fact. our country manufacturing industry is big, but not strong situation, in the field of surface engineering is becoming more and more prominent. The modern manufacturing industry needs the powerful support of surface treatment, surface treatment industry elimination of backward production capacity, advanced production capacity need to substitute and fill, this is one of the most important challenges facing China's manufacturing industry from big to strong in the process. It is also the biggest challenge facing the surface engineering industry.
Industry 4 brings new opportunities for surface engineering
The challenges facing the surface engineering industry have brought great pressure to the industry, as well as great opportunities. With the advent of the 4 era of industry, some new intelligent industrial products have entered the market. The industrial new products derived from the combination of automatic control and Internet technology emerge in an endless stream, from UAVs to autopilot cars to intelligent robots. The upgrading of new products that will change traditional production and living patterns will be the norm of industrial products in the future. All these new products use surface treatment technology without exception. For example, without electroplating technology, the interconnection and interoperability of these modern electronic products can not be realized, and some functions can not achieve perfection. However, these opportunities are not given to backward productivity, but for advanced productivity.
In the forefront of the automation of the surface treatment industry, the automation of the automotive industry. The automatic coating of auto painting provides a good foundation for the intelligent development of auto painting. But a large number of products are still painted by artificial spraying. The research and development of the replacement of artificial robots is being actively promoted.
Another important industry in the surface treatment industry is the electroplating industry. The automation of electroplating industry in China is relatively low, even after the implementation of the system of Electroplating Industrial Park, the equipment is still a bottleneck. Only the standard used by the park to enter the park is put forward by the park, and it has a positive effect on the automation of electroplating industry. The process parameters of control and raw materials added, still need manual operation on the rack also need a large number of artificial. It is an important task for the industry to develop the intelligent robot or intelligent electroplating production line for electroplating production.
The transformation of backward production capacity into advanced productivity can seize the opportunity for the transformation of the world industry. For the surface treatment industry, the production mode of industrial 4 should be developed first, and the automation and intelligentization of production equipment should be realized. This is both a challenge and an opportunity for a backwardness of the surface processing industry.
