Technical Articles
Brighton Science has published these technical articles:
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Manufacturers are always looking to create stronger, more durable, more reliable and, in the automotive and aerospace sectors, lightweight products. In this pursuit they've often upgraded and swapped...
(Surface Finishing Products and Equipment)
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New Product Development is an essential component to the successful growth of companies who always challenge themselves to improve and innovate. Getting this design stage right is pivotal in that it...
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In a recent study conducted by Instrumental, the top ten most common manufacturing defects were examined. The number one defect that manufacturers fight against is a deficiency in glue.
It's a simple...
(Calibration and Testing Services)
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Manufacturers utilize research and design laboratories all the time. To scale new products up to the production line, years of toiling in testing labs is done to ensure that everything goes off...
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Cleanliness in manufacturing gains avid devotees all the time. Once the importance of cleanliness is grasped, it's nearly impossible to think about manufacturing processes without considering the...
(Coating Services and Finishing Services)
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Our relationship to our vehicles may have changed in the past few months with the idea of commuting to work looking more like a shuffle to the desk across the room rather than a drive to the office...
(Product and Material Testing)
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Electronic components consist of many exposed and delicate pieces that leave them vulnerable. A lot is relying on these fragile parts to function without fail. From implantable medical devices to...
(Product and Material Testing)
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Cleanliness is next to production standardization requirements for medical device manufacturers (as the old saying goes). Devices built to be inserted within the human body understandably need to meet...
(Metals and Alloys)
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When thinking about what manufacturing looks like, most people envision sparks flying, metal clanking and fires blazing. This isn't too far off the mark since metals have been used for bonding joints...
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A frequent question from people who use contact angle measurements to characterize surfaces and control manufacturing processes is, "What effect does surface roughness have on these measurements?"...
(Coating Services and Finishing Services)
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We're all thinking a lot more about the surfaces we touch and the invisible things that might be on those surfaces. Manufacturers have been thinking about how surfaces interact with our skin and the...
(Product and Material Testing)
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The factors that have a high impact on the success of adhesion processes are not always what they seem. Over the years we've discovered that contamination of surfaces that leads to adhesion failure...
(Abrasives and Abrasive Products)
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At BTG Labs, it's a daily occurrence for us to have a conversation with a customer who, when explaining the reasoning behind using a particular cleaning method or surface preparation material, tells...
(Calibration and Testing Services)
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Generally speaking, reliability is assessed by evaluating how a product must perform to satisfy the needs of the users over the lifetime of its use. A reliability target is set by calculating the...
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Adhesion is a powerful phenomenon that can hold massive structures together and fuse microscopic compounds. It is also extremely dependent upon delicate and fragile processes to succeed.
In...
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Nature is miraculous. Living entities, be they plants, animals, marine life or humans, can perform an amazing array of complex tasks. As scientists, inventors, and engineers, we at BTG Labs take...
(Circuit Protection)
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At IPC APEX 2020 in San Diego we got the chance to sit down and chat with Mike Konrad, from Aqueous Technologies and the Reliability Matters podcast, a show about the reliability of circuit...
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The pathway to zero defect manufacturing through implementation of quality control procedures is found right there in the name. Quality control requires the control of variables to ensure quality...
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Many manufacturers have a dual performance concern when their products are out there in the world being used in whatever capacity they were designed for. These parallel interests are: how to maintain...
(Plastics, Elastomers and Polymers)
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We all take the ease of peeling open, and resealing packs of double stuff Oreos for granted. The plastic packaging that maintains the freshness of our favorite snacks and foods has become so...
(Product and Material Testing)
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We've mentioned many times, in various articles, that bonded material systems are becoming the norm for manufacturers in nearly every industry. In order to make finished products more efficient in...
(Product and Material Testing)
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Cleanliness and adhesion go hand-in-hand. If you're looking for an adhesion process to be successful then you are also absolutely interested in cleaning the materials involved in the application....
(Metals and Alloys)
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Even though we look around us and see plastic everywhere, in every shape and imaginable application, metals are still a more commonly used raw material in machined products. Metals are the legacy...
(Calibration and Testing Services)
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Vacuum plasma is the treatment method of record for many manufacturers. Not only because it is a legacy technology proven useful over many, many decades, but because it can be particularly effective...
(Coating Services and Finishing Services)
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Comfort is more than just a nice thing to hope for when it comes to medical devices like tubing, catheters and stents that are implanted into the human body. Comfort, in this instance, is referring to...
(Product and Material Testing)
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In manufacturing it is extremely difficult to eliminate all inefficiencies and production deficits. Setbacks that come in the form of scrap rates and rework resulting from product failures before...
(Connectors)
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Protective coverings are part and parcel of our lives these days. For industries reliant upon electronic components and connectors, protective coverings in the form of polymeric overmolding...
(Product and Material Testing)
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One of the most pressing questions on the minds of manufacturing engineers is how to take a load off. Lightweighting, or shedding pounds on assembled vehicles and machinery, is a critical puzzle in...
(Product and Material Testing)
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When the subject of material surfaces comes up among manufacturing engineers the discussion usually centers on the physical attributes of that surface; the surface topography or morphology, or more...
(Engineering Services)
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Even though coming to the end of 2020 has not at all meant the end of the impact of Covid-19, manufacturers are pushing forward to make sure 2021 is not marred by the setbacks of this year. This has...
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At IPC APEX 2020 in San Diego we wanted to explore the ways that electronics manufacturers, who are encapsulating their circuit boards with a conformal coating, are cleaning their boards. What are the...
(Product and Material Testing)
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We've all experienced the disappointing (and kinda embarrassing) moment when we're at a register trying to buy armfuls of tortilla chips and salsa and the point of sale card reader screams out that an...
(Engineering Services)
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Wire bonding and sintering are critical processes involved in the manufacture of a majority of electronic devices. These processes are used to connect silicon chips, integrated circuits (ICs), and...
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This is part one of a two-part series explaining the finer points of BTG Labs' approach to helping companies build reliability into their cleaning and adhesion processes through consultation and...
(Process Controllers)
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This is part two of a two-part series explaining the finer points of BTG Labs' approach to helping companies build reliability into their cleaning and adhesion processes through consultation and...
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When manufacturing companies take adhesion seriously it can have a remarkable effect on their ability to achieve their business goals. The key is to take a strategic look at adhesion processes early...
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A lot goes into painting an aircraft. This massive, multi-stage process begins long before that final, shiny topcoat you see on the wings and tail is applied. The components are molded, then...
(Optical Components)
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Coatings are an indispensable part of manufacturing photonics. The coatings help determine the most basic functionality of the lenses they are applied to. How much light passes through, what happens...
(Seals)
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When an aircraft is manufactured, every single portion of the plane or jet is designed to be able to be serviced and repaired for the next 20-30 years. Aircraft manufacturing OEMs are building...
(Plastics, Elastomers and Polymers)
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The Aerospace and Defense Industry is experiencing a market boom right now. Investments in the aerospace industry are an increasingly significant part of the world economy. Last year, almost $1...
(Product and Material Testing)
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Excellent adhesion relies on manufacturer's ability to understand and control three distinct yet interrelated elements. In manufacturing, adhesive bonding takes many forms but the fundamental...
(Product and Material Testing)
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Semiconductors are one of the most fascinating areas of electronics manufacturing. The ability to "grow" almost irreducibly small integrated circuit components on silicon wafers has made an incredible...
(Product and Material Testing)
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Materials react with one another. Material properties impact how these interactions occur. Accurately anticipating, and planning for, material interactions is an important component of each materials...
(Calibration and Testing Services)
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The biomedical industry runs on testing. Testing is at the heart of meeting extensive requirements to ensure healthcare practices and facilities are safe. A kind of testing that has been on all of our...
(Product and Material Testing)
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When adhesion issues become apparent in a manufacturing process, they can seem to come out of nowhere. When coatings on circuit boards delaminate and cause shorts; when automotive glass...
(Industrial Coatings and Sealants)
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Adhesion problems don't have a preference when it comes to the kind of damage they cause. Whether the end result is structural or cosmetic, headaches for manufacturers abound; although there are times...
(Product and Material Testing)
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One of the most frustrating aspects of experiencing a problem in manufacturing isn't necessarily the issue itself, but rather, it's the difficulty of accurately determining and communicating what the...
(Quality Assurance, Test and Compliance Software)
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Validation and verification are inextricable from product development and process design for the manufacturing of medical devices. To satisfy regulatory standards, reduce risk, create efficiencies and...
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Adhesion problems have a tendency to show up in a manufacturing process and then overstay their welcome. The chronic nature of so many adhesion issues is due to factors that many manufacturing...
(Engineering Services)
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When it comes down to it, this is another purely semantic question much like the one we dealt with in another article comparing the terms "surface tension" and "surface energy." Surface free energy is...
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Using adhesives in manufacturing is becoming increasingly common for building everything from massive machines to everyday tech devices. But companies' reliance on the science of adhesion to make sure...
(Product and Material Testing)
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Quality tests during medical device production need to check a lot of boxes for manufacturers. Testing must increase confidence in product reliability in order to be worthwhile to manufacturers....
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Enterprise manufacturing operations are made up of interlocking, overlapping and critically interdependent processes. Each process in this symbiotic web consists of a series of steps that are only...
(Industrial Adhesives)
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Adhesives are an integral part of modern manufacturing, but choosing the right adhesive is only one part of the equation. It's well known that you won't get a reliable bond with an adhesive if you...
(Electronics and Microelectronics Manufacturing)
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Defining "clean" is actually more complicated than it sounds. Cleanliness can be in the eye of the beholder (I mean, we all had a college roommate who swore they were tidy, but let's be honest!) and...
(Product and Material Testing)
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When it comes to modern flooring, roofing, siding, windows and wall construction, to make sure the outside stays out and the inside stays warm/cool/dry, contractors are heavily reliant upon adhesives...
(Surface Finishing Products and Equipment)
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In the world of manufacturing, surface treatment plays a crucial role in achieving high-performance adhesion. Whether bonding, coating, sealing, painting, or printing, every manufacturer understands...
(Surface Finishing Products and Equipment)
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Adhesion failures are among the most common yet preventable issues in composite bonding, coatings, and sealants. Whether in aerospace, automotive, or medical manufacturing, poor surface preparation...
(Calibration and Testing Services)
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In response to customer inquiries regarding surface energy, the Materials and Process Specialists at BTG Labs launched a research project to determine whether contact angle measurements obtained by...
(Engineering Services)
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Silicone contamination is a huge problem in many painting and bonding applications. It’s impossible to see, hard to remove, and it creeps in unseen like a ghost. Where the harm it can cause is...
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In today's blog post, we are going to have a bit of fun using video to learn more about contact angles. We will show you a contact angle and will ask you to "guess" the contact angle measurement.
The...
(Product and Material Testing)
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Manufacturers who produce products with surfaces that require paints, adhesives, or sealants face a challenge in determining the quality and reliability of the final product. The problem is often...
(Surface Finishing Products and Equipment)
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In the world of optics, even a tiny speck of contamination can ruin a product. Whether you’re in precision manufacturing, medical imaging, or aerospace components, surface cleanliness...
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Composite materials are essential in industries like aerospace, automotive, and medical devices because they offer a combination of strength and lightweight properties. But no matter how advanced...
(Product and Material Testing)
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In today’s video we will show you how to quantify the surface quality of metals when using fresh and aged baths. We will demonstrate how Water Contact Angle (WCA) measurements can provide...
(Product and Material Testing)
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Automotive supply chains are complex. Nearly 78 million vehicles were manufactured in 2020. Each vehicle may have upwards of 30,000 individual parts. Automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)...
(Coating Services and Finishing Services)
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Electronic components are the backbone of modern technology, from implantable medical devices and navigational equipment to sensor packages in cars and everyday cell phones. These delicate and exposed...
(Product and Material Testing)
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Does your business, or your customer's business, deal with adhesion - either in the form of bonding, coating, sealing, printing or painting? Given that these processes may be occurring either upstream...